Thursday, April 24, 2014

How to Remove Dogpile.com Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Dogpile.com is a malicious website that will interrupt your Internet activities. Once this website is injected into your browser, you should take actions to remove it. This post will guide you remove this website step by step.

Dogpile.com Virus Information

Similar to Searchfog.com and Sweet-Page.com, Dogpile.com is viewed as a nettlesome redirect virus that mainly attacks various browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. When this redirect virus penetrates into your computer, it will firstly add its files and registry keys to your system. Then it is able to change your homepage and other browser settings. When you open your browser, you will find that it is captured by Dogpile.com. Besides, you are also redirected to this malicious website when you open a new tab in the hijacked browser. At the same time, in order to advertise specified websites and products, this Dogpile.com virus shows a plenty of test-links ads and various annoying pop-ups.

Once you click on them, you will enter many unfamiliar and questionable websites. In addition, this redirect virus replaces your default search engine so as to mess up search results. Commonly, these misleading search results make you suffer a lot of redirections and advertisements. You may wonder how this Dogpile.com virus gets into your PC. Usually, this virus is bundled with free media players, download applications and other free programs. If your computer resources are taken up by a lot of unwanted programs, the performance of your machine will be affected badly. If you want to avoid this redirect virus and protect your PC well, you should remove Dogpile.com without hesitation.


Dogpile.com Virus Detailed Manual Removal Guide

You should remove Dogpile.com virus from your computer as it is a potential risk. The manual removal method will guide you step by step to remove Dogpile.com virus.

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


Step 2: Uninstall Dogpile.com virus and suspicious programs from your computer. Open Start Menu and go to Control Panel.


Step 3: 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 uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\Users\”rnd”
%AllUsersProfile%\ApplicationData\.exe(rnd)
%windows%\system32\suspicious.exe

Step 4: Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor. Remove Dogpile.com virus registry entries.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit”={rnd}
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun”"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS SCRIPT HOST\SETTINGS\

Step 5: Reboot your computer