Saturday, April 12, 2014

Search.starburnsoftware.com Virus Removal Guide



Search.starburnsoftware.com Virus Description


Starburn Software is an unwanted program which can do harm to your Windows operating system. As soon as this malicious program gets into your computer without your awareness, it will change your browser homepage and search provider to Search.starburnsoftware.com. In fact, similar to key-find.com browser hijacker, this unknown domain is able to take over the whole browser and block your from visiting other websites. When you make searches online, this browser hijacker displays a lot of irrelevant search results to disturb you. Not only that, this browser hijacker shows numerous pop-up ads with the purpose of helping sponsors make profit. If you click on the pop-ups, you will be redirected to many unauthorized sites. Once you trigger some malicious programs on these unknown websites, your computer will be attack by a variety of computer viruses. Then lots of junk files are generated in your system, which causes system resources scarcity. As a result, you will reap a weird and slow computer performance. Additionally, Search.starburnsoftware.com uses system loopholes to widen a passageway for remote hackers. Once you are attacked by cyber hackers, your PC and personal files will be in danger. As mentioned above, it is strongly recommended that you remove Search.starburnsoftware.com and Starburn Software from your computer as fast as you can.


How to Remove Search.starburnsoftware.com Virus?



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

Step 2: Remove the files of Search.starburnsoftware.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.
 


%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\*.lnk
 
Step 3: Delete Search.starburnsoftware.com registry entries from your PC. Click start button and search for regedit to open Registry Editor.
 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM]”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[RANDOM]

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

Step 5: Remove toolbars and extension from your web 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 Search.starburnsoftware.com from IE.

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

Step 6: Reboot your PC.