Permanently Remove/Get Rid of My-find.com Browser Hijacker Virus
What
is My-find.com?
My-find.com
is a notorious browser hijacker virus that hijacks your Internet Explorer,
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox stealthily. Consequently, this nettlesome
computer virus often hides in shady websites, unsolicited ads and spam email
attachments. If you install some unknown programs from the Internet for free,
the files and registry entries of this My-find.com will be added to your PC.
Then this browser hijacker controls your browser completely. After changing
your browser settings, your default homepage and search engine are both deleted
from your PC. And you can not be allowed to set them back. Being infected with
this browser hijacker, your web browser is able to show you tabs and websites
regularly. On the contrary, My-find.com keeps popping up and redirecting you to
unknown websites that contain a bunch of bothersome advertisements. The intention of this pest is to collect net
traffic and increase ranking for sponsored websites. Once your system
vulnerabilities are exposed by My-find.com, a door will be opened to potential
viruses and hackers. It is really dangerous that hackers enter your PC. All
crucial personal information stored on the infected computer will be stolen
without your awareness. To prevent bad things happening, you should take
immediate actions to get rid of My-find.com.
Detailed
Guide to Help You Remove My-find.com Virus
Step
1: Press Ctrl+ALT+Del keys
at the same time to open Task Manager. End the process of My-find.com.
Step 2: Remove the files of My-find.com. Open Start Menu and then go to Control
Panel. Then use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show
hidden files and folders and un-check Hide
protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.
%UserProfile%\Programs\
AppData \[Random Charateristc].exe
%UserProfile%\Programs\Temp\
[Random Charateristc].dll
%UserProfile%\Programs\
AppData\roaming\ [RandomCharateristc].dll
Step 3: Delete My-find.com registry entries from your PC. Click start button and search for regedit to open Registry Editor.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run""="%AppData%\.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations"LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"
Step4: Click Start button
and select Control Panel. Then click
Programs and Features, uninstall all
suspicious programs from your PC.
Step 5: Remove toolbars and extension from your web browser.
For Google Chrome
1. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and
navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown
extensions by clicking Bin button.
2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and
click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change
button to reset your homepage.
For Mozilla Firefox
1. Click Ctrl+Shift+A
at the same time to open Add-ons page
> Extensions to remove all
unknown extensions.
2. Click the Firefox button > Help
> Troubleshooting Information >
click on Reset Firefox button.
For Internet Explorer
1. Click Tools
> Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all
unknown extensions.
2. Click Search
Providers, delete My-find.com from IE.
3. Click Tools
> Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.
Step 6: Reboot your PC.
