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Friday, January 11, 2013

How to eliminate search.iminent.com?


Have tried many ways to remove search.iminent.com, but fail? Can anyone walk you through? What should be done to remove it? Reading this entire post carefully, you will know more about this search.iminent.com, and the detailed removal instructions.


Screen Shortcut of search.iminent.com




Know More About search.iminent.com

search.iminent.com is a browser redirect virus. Once infected with this redirect virus, it will frequently redirect your internet connection and tell you that you are browsing unsafely. Your homepage will be changes, so do your desktop settings, and forces you to enter other unfamiliar websites or web pages for advertisements. You will be irritated with lots of unfamiliar questionable advertisements and fake alerts keep popping up on your screen. When you enter the redirect websites, you may be convinced to purchase something of poor quality or worthless. Why this virus can perform such vicious actions? It can enter to your system without any of your permission and knowledge, and it can launch out of nowhere by infecting your registry entries. Besides, all its infected files can spread to your program files, processes, dll files and registry entries and hide deep to escape from detecting and deleting, which will open doors for hackers to capture and steal your privacy information(like credit card information). Moreover, it may install other computer threats like malware, Trojan, etc. It may cause your pc frequently freezing and system crash. You need to delete it the sooner the better to protect your computer and personal information. In order to get rid of it completely, you need to detect and delete all associated program files, processes, dll files and registry entries. So you are advised to remove it once you notice its trace.

How search.iminent.com May Enter Into Your System?

  • download free resources like program,  from Internet
  • visit some websites with badly reputation
  • games or programs updates
  • fake video codecs

Guides For Deleting search.iminent.com


Step one: Access to the safe mode with networking



<Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap "F8" key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then press ENTER>



Step two: Stop all the processes

a: Go to Task Manager with Alt+Ctrl+Delete and stop its process.
[random name].exe 



b: Search and delete all related files in Local Disk C:



C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Windows\system32\atiesrxx.exe
C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k secsvcs
C:\Windows\system32\atieclxx.exe
C:\Windows\system32\taskhost.exe
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
c:\windows\system32\DRIVERS\atapi.sys
C:\WINDOWS\_VOID\_VOIDd.sys
C:\WINDOWS\system32\UAC.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\UAC.db
C:\WINDOWS\system32\UAC.dat
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_VOIDtmp
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\UAC.tmp

c: Delete all associated registry entries in Registry Editor



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\_VOIDd.sys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\_VOID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UACd.sys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\4DW4R3

Step Three: Delete search.iminent.com with automatic way

1) Click the following red icon to install Spyhunter.
 
2) Install Spyhunter Step by Step:



 

3) Execute a full scan with SpyHunter and remove all detected threats.



4) Remove associated programs.



Conclusion 
search.iminent.com is a hazardous browser hijacker. It can produce plenty of irritating ads. And it can alter your default homepage to the designed website search.iminent.com. It also can bring related threats to your computer. Hence, you are suggested to remove it without delay once you find its trace. The sooner you take measures, the less dangerous your computer is.

Advice 
If you not a computer expert, you resort to the automatic way. For a layman, manually to remove search.iminent.com is not so easy to master. Thus, there is no need for you to use this way. On the contrary, you’d better install Anti-Malware program SpyHunter to help you to remove search.iminent.com. On one hand, it can work effectively; on the other hand, it can protect your computer from infecting in the future.

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