Saturday, March 8, 2014

Toolbar.blinkx.com Browser Hijacker Removal Guide



Your Chrome is hacked by toolbar.blinkx.com? Your homepage and search engine are both changes to toolbar.blinkx.com? You can’t remove toolbar.blinkx.com from your Chrome? No worries. This post will help you get rid of this annoying toolbar.blinkx.com.

What is Toolbar.blinkx.com?

Toolbar.blinkx.com is a browser hijacker that utilizes the Internet to propagate itself to random computers. The infiltration of this browser hijacker can not be detected by antivirus programs. Frequently, this redirect virus is comes bundled with many suspicious programs which you can download from websites for free. Besides, this pesky infection can enter your Windows system with the help of spam email attachments from unknown third parties.

Once inside, Toolbar.blinkx.com changes the settings of your browser like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Each time your homepage or new tab is redirected to Toolbar.blinkx.com. Besides, this malicious hijacker pretends to be a search provider to make chaos in your Internet life. It is able to gather your searching keywords for vicious purposes. When you are led to a search result page, you will find that there are some unknown links appear. 

Once you click on them, you will be misled into sponsored websites that are very insecure. Provided that you click on certain pop-ups displayed on these websites, a number of unwanted programs will be infected into your computer. Then a lot of available system resources would be taken up, which lowers computer performance. And your browser starts to load websites for you slowly.

Moreover, Toolbar.blinkx.com can be considered to be nasty thief because it tracks your browser histories stealthily.  When all saved passwords and other important data are collected by this pest, you will suffer identity theft and commercial loss. In order to earn money, the creator of this browser hijacker is likely to sell your data to bad guys. If Toolbar.blinkx.com is not eliminated from your computer right away, your PC would come across a mass of dangerous viruses like ransom viruses and Trojan horses. To protect your Windows from being attacked seriously, you should take immediate actions to get rid of Toolbar.blinkx.com.

Get Rid of Toolbar.blinkx.com Manually

To be frank, removing Toolbar.blinkx.com completely is not an easy job. You need to find out its files and registry entries in your system. And you have to find out and clean out suspicious programs that might cause other problems. If you don't how to start, please follow the guide below.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manager. Disable the process of Toolbar.blinkx.com.

Step 2: Find out all hidden files of Toolbar.blinkx.com. Go to Control Panel from Start Menu; Type Folder Option in Search Bar; Check Show hidden files and folders and deselect the option of Hide protected operating system files in View tab and then click on OK.

Step 3: Find out and remove registries of Toolbar.blinkx.com. Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor.

Step 4: Uninstall Toolbar.blinkx.com from your computer. Open Start Menu and go to Control Panel. And click Programs and Features, then find out insecure programs and remove them.

Step 5: Remove additional unwanted 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 Search Providers, delete Toolbar.blinkx.com from IE.


3. Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.


Step 6: Reboot your computer

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