Monday, May 5, 2014

Get Rid of Resultsland.com Virus (Manual Removal Guide)

Resultsland.com won't improve your browsing experience as it claims. Indeed, it will interfere with your work on the network and redirect random tabs or websites to unknown domain. Please read this post if you don’t know how to remove this redirect virus.

The Description of Resultsland.com Virus

As same as Sweet-Page.com, Resultsland.com is considered to be a malicious browser hijacker virus will redirect innocent computer users to some sponsored websites. In general, this vicious browser hijacker is also good at hiding itself in certain kinds of free programs. You never know when it infected your computer not until you open your browser. Once this browser hijacker enters your PC without your awareness, it will make changes the settings of various browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Consequently, your default homepage and search engine are both replaced with Resultsland.com.

Besides, you can’t visit websites on the affected browser properly because this browser hijacker repeatedly redirects Twitter, Facebook and other popular websites to unknown domain. Even it causes redirection when you carry out searching activities on Google. Apart from that, Resultsland.com also displays tons of commercial pop-up ads to mess up your browsing experience. More badly, this redirect virus is designed to keep track your browser histories, searching histories and cookies secretly for the purpose of helping remote hackers gather your sensitive information. What is more, this browser hijacker will install many unwanted programs to reduce lots of available system resources so as to worsen your computer performance. According to the characteristics of this Resultsland.com, you should take immediate actions to get rid of it as soon as possible.


Manual Removal Guide of Resultsland.comVirus

Step 1: Restart the computer, keep pressing F8 till the option appears, and then use arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Networking.



Step 2: End related processes of Resultsland.com. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.


Step 3: Uninstall all suspicious programs. Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs and Features.
 

Step 4: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. 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.

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ Resultsland.com \
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat

Step 5: Remove dropped registry files of Resultsland.com. Hit Win+R to activate Run, and then type “regedit” and press OK. Find unfamiliar keys and click Delete.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings “CertificateRevocation”=0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run: [avsdsvc] %CommonAppData%\ifdstore\security_defender.exe /min
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Antivirus Security Pro Virus\UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” –u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\random


Step 6: 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 Resultsland.com from IE.


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

Step 7: Reboot your PC.