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Saturday, January 26, 2013

How to Clean Up Search.certified-toolbar.com?

Your browser/browsers have been hijacked, every time you want to search the Internet, it redirects you to Search.certified-toolbar.com? Have tried many methods, but with no avail? No worries, the removal instructions will be in details in this post. Reading carefully, you will know how to deal with this browser hijacker.

Dangers of Search.certified-toolbar.com


  • enter to the system out of awareness
  • execute commands on your computer
  • pop up plenty of advertisements and alerts
  • hijack your browser/browsers, homepage, and redirect search results to its own websites full of advertisements
  • slow down computer performances, arouse screen shots even system crash
  • add other malware, Trojan and so on to make further vulnerabilities
  • make loopholes for remote cyber hackers to exploit and steal useful information

True Colors of Search.certified-toolbar.com


Search.certified-toolbar.com is a hazardous redirect virus and known as browser hijacker. Once it succeeds in penetrating into the system, it will hijack your browser/browsers like Fire Fox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and etc. Someone may think that change another browser will stop the virus. The fast is that all its corrupt files will infiltrate into all the system files. And it stays on the system even you install the browser hijacked. Once it drops vicious files to your computer, it has the ability to spread fast throughout of all drivers and hide deep with advanced technique, which will gain difficulty for auto removal and manual eradication.

It will modify your registry entries for launch irritating pop up advertisements out of nowhere. And whenever you start Windows, it runs automatically without any of your interaction. You will be forced to the unrelated websites when whenever you do a web search. When you enter those websites, you may be convinced to buy unworthy things or be lured to download some programs seems to be good and powerful. Don’t be fool in, or you may install and download other malware, Trojan to the system for lots of free downloads are offered with malware, spyware, and ect. , which will causes plenty of damage to your pc.

On the other way, this browser hijack may lead you to the web pages to do some questionnaires. Be cautious with such questionnaires for your private information may be known to all. At the same time, this virus will open convenient doors for cyber criminals to trace and steal your personal information (like credit cart details, log in information, etc.). Besides, infected with such redirect virus, you will find that the pc performance is poor and screen shots randomly.

No matter what Search.certified-toolbar.com can do, and will do, it targets to attack computer users for gaining advantages to advertisers and cyber hackers. For preventing from succeeding the plot, we need to delete the virus once detected.

Screen shortcut of Search.certified-toolbar.com




Removal Guides For Search.certified-toolbar.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/files/ entries of Search.certified-toolbar.com


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


b: 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\UAC.dat
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\_VOIDtmp
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\UAC.tmp

c: Remove all associated registry entries:



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: Removing Search.certified-toolbar.com through automatic way


1) Click the icon below to download Spyhunter.


2) Install Spyhunter Step by Step:




3) Start a full and quick scan with SpyHunter .


4) Remove detected threats.



Conclusion
Search.certified-toolbar.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.certified-toolbar.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.certified-toolbar.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.certified-toolbar.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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