Windows Problems Help Center : How to Manually Remove Search Donkey Ad?

Help, my compute is infected with Search Donkey Ad, every time I surf the Internet, tons of irritating advertisements pop up. What should I do to remove Search Donkey Ad?

What is Search Donkey Ad? It just comes to my computer all of a sudden.

Search Donkey Ad installs on my computer out of permission, is it dangerous to keep with it? If yes, what should be done to remove it completely?

If you are one of the victims, you have come to the right place, here, you will get detailed removal steps.

General Information About Search Donkey Ad

Type: Adware program

Alert level: Severe

Targeted Browsers：Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.

Targeted OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.

Search Donkey Ad is a irritating and dangerous adware program that will arouse irritating pop ups when you are surfing the Internet. Normally, it comes to targeted computers along with some free software downloaded from the Internet. Hence, you need to be cautious when you want to download some free resources from various web sites. You may install Search Donkey Ad or other computer threats as well with carelessness. What are the vicious features of Search Donkey Ad? What should be done to remove it for your antivirus programs can’t remove it? Please continue to read and get more information.

Search Donkey Ad Screenshot

Harmful Features of Search Donkey Ad

1) It installs secretly along with some free software that are available to download.
2) By embedding into the web browser, it will arouse lots of pop ups when you surf the Internet.
3) It will slow down computer performance.
4) It could monitor and record your online habits.
5) It may bring or invite other computer threats.
6) It may redirect some of your web search results to other unrelated web sites.
7) It may help cyber hackers to trace and steal private information stored on the computer.
8) It is really difficult to be removed.

How to Remove Search Donkey Ad?

1. Use CTRL+ALT+DEL keys to open Windows Task Manager, then end all running processes of Search Donkey Ad:

2: Find and remove all Search Donkey Ad associated files listed below:

%AppData%[ Search Donkey Ad]toolbardtx.ini
%AppData%[ Search Donkey Ad]toolbaruninstallIE.dat
%AppData%[ Search Donkey Ad]toolbarversion.xml

3. Open the Registry Editor, trace and delete all Registry Entries of Search Donkey Ad.
Click Start button> click “Run” > Input “regedit” into the Run box and click ok)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Search Donkey Ad]IEHelper.DNSGuardCurVer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Search Donkey Ad]IEHelper.DNSGuardCLSID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Search Donkey Ad]IEHelper.DNSGuard
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Search Donkey Ad]IEHelper.DNSGuard.1

(Note: If you don’t have sufficient expert skills but remove Search Donkey Ad by yourself, you may meet with lots of difficulties during the manual removal process, even make the issue worse due to some mistakes. If you encounter problems while trying to execute the manual process, we would recommend that you download the most popular Antivirus program SpyHunter here, then the issue will be fixed really quick.)

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