Friday, April 4, 2014

How to Get Rid of Cj.dotomi.com Redirect Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox



Brief Information of Cj.dotomi.com

Cj.dotomi.com is classified as a redirect virus that can replace your browser homepage and search provider without your consent. This kind of redirect virus is able to attack Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and other famous web browsers. Once your computer resides in such evil browser hijacker virus, you will have many troubles. No matter when you open your browser, Cj.dotomi.com shows up and redirects your tabs. Under this circumstance, you can barely access Facebook, Twitter and other regular websites.

 At the same time, you get harassed by a plenty of pop-up commercial advertisements. Even though you reinstall your browser, this redirect virus can still interrupt your browser activities. Cj.dotomi.com also tampers your search results without your awareness. This browser hijacker virus will utilize sponsored links which have been added to your search results to cause redirections. Once you are misled into unauthorized websites, your computer would be infected more computer viruses like pop-up viruses, ransom viruses and Trojan viruses.


As far as I known, many computer viruses often come from dubious sources. If Cj.dotomi.com is not removed from your computer immediately, it will cause identity theft issue. Your browser histories, saved passwords and other personal information will be gathered by this notorious redirect virus secretly. There is possibility that the gathered information would be exposed to third parties. Hence, we strongly suggest that you remove Cj.dotomi.com and keep your computer safe.

Manual Removal Guide of Cj.dotomi.com Virus

Cj.dotomi.com is dropped on to target PCs by freeware, shareware and SPAM. That is why some famous programs can not detect and remove it. To remove such parlous computer virus, you need to manually find out its files and registry entries. But you should have sufficient computer skills first. Please follow the guide below.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+ALT+Del keys at the same time to open Task Manager. End the process of Cj.dotomi.com.

[random].exe

Step 2: Remove the files of Cj.dotomi.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.

C:\program files
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\

Step 3: Delete Cj.dotomi.com registry entries from your PC. Click start button and search for regedit to open Registry Editor.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" = "http://www..com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid="
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main "Default_Search_URL"= "http://www..com/web/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q=
{searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe http://www..com/?type=sc&ts=&from=tugs&uid="
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Search "CustomizeSearch"= "http://www..com/web/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q=
{searchTerms}"

Step4: Click Start button and select Control Panel. Then click Programs/Programs and Features, uninstall all suspicious programs from your PC.


Step 5: Reboot your PC.