Thursday, March 6, 2014

Permanently Remove/Uninstall LookForIT Adware Virus from Your Computer



LookForIT Description 

LookForIT is categorized as a notorious adware program that can run with every Windows satart-up. Each time you enter Windows operating system and open your browser like IE, Chrome or Firefox, LookForIT begins to interfere with your online activities. Your browser homepage as well as search provider is changed by LookForIT. And you meet with a great deal of commercial advertisements when you open random tab or website. Though these ads with discounts, coupons and price comparisons seem to be reliable and attractive, you will redirected to unfamiliar domain once you click on them. The intention of LookForIT is to collect network traffic for third parties.

In addition, LookForIT installs a mass of unwanted programs onto your computer without your authorization. As a consequence, a lot of memory and disk space would be occupied by these unnecessary applications. Gradually, you get a high CPU utilization even if you do nothing on your computer. It means that your computer performance is worsened by LookForIT. Besides, this malicious adware program is most likely to distribute a load of computer viruses to your PC. Once your PC is infected with browser hijacker virus, endless redirections will mess up you Internet life. At the same time, your system vulnerabilities are exposed by LookForIT to remote hackers. Under this circumstance, some important information related to your bank account and credit card will be at the risk of being stolen.

How Can LookForIT Enter Your Computer? 

LookForIT is mostly installed onto your machine by certain free programs and download packages. In some cases, people pay less attention to every step during the installation process so that they can’t find LookForIT bundled with free applications. Hence, we suggest that you detect free resources before you decide to utilize them.

How to Uninstall/Remove LookForIT from Your Computer? 

Step1: Uninstall LookForIT from your computer

Open Start Menu and go to Control Panel. And click Programs and Features, then remove LookForIT.
 



Step 2: Remove suspicious programs from your 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 Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.


Step 3: Reboot your computer