Thursday, April 17, 2014

Remove Gimmeanswers.com Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox



Gimmeanswers.com hijacks your browser and causes redirection? It also brings in pop-up virus to cause further damage? No worries, this post can help you get rid of Gimmeanswers.com completely.

Detailed Description of Gimmeanswers.com 

Since lots of PC users have been complaining about Gimmeanswers.com, we will discuss about its bad features today. In fact, as with Api.paltip.com, Gimmeanswers.com has been labeled as a kind of risky browser hijacker virus, which can cause hijacking when you are surfing the Internet. Normally, this little pest appears in a pure form, which looks harmless and innocent, so lots of users are taken in at first sight. But soon, you will realize how annoying it is.

Once this virus sneaks into your workstation successfully, it will pretend to improve your Internet browser by adding an add-on and perform malicious activities on the background. To begin with, when you look up something with your legal search engine, your search results will get forcedly redirected to unwanted pages instead of ending up on the right page.
Moreover, Gimmeanswers.com will keep appearing on your screen when you click on any links on your search result pages, which you cannot prevent anyway. Besides, this harmful pest is likely to alter your DNS and browser settings, by which it can perform its vicious activities. For example, replacing your homepage by its own site is one of the consequences. Thus, when you notice that Gimmeanswers.com often pops up on your screen, you must pay attention to it and try hard to remove it from your machine.


How to Get Rid of Gimmeanswers.com Permanently?


I need to remind you that this manual removal method needs sufficient computer skills. And you should be more attentive and careful during the removal process.

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

Step 2: Find out all hidden files of Gimmeanswers.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.
%AllUsersProfile%\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\.exe

Step 3: Find out and remove registries of Gimmeanswers.com. Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallPaper” = ’1′

Step 4: Resetting DNS settings

1. Open your Control Panel from Start Menu, and then choose “View network status and task” in “Network and Internet”.

2. Select the option of Network and Sharing Center and click “Change adapter settings”.

3. Select the corresponded network adapter as you are using and right click to open a menu then select “Properties”.

5. Select “Internet Protocol Verrion4(TCP/IPV4), then click Properties button.

6. Choose “Use the following DNS server addresses”. Set “preferred DNS server” to 8.8.8.8.

Step 5: Reboot your computer