How to Remove Protectep.com Hijacker?
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Protectep.com Hijacker Information:
Protectep.com is a malicious browser hijacker that interferes with your Internet session. Protectep.com hijacker is one part of Antivirus Scan rogue antivirus which attempts to deceive its victims into believing its false positives and thus purchasing its full version. The malicious activities will become meaningless without Protectep.com hijacker that helps Antivirus Scan to gather victims’ payments. So Protectep.com has a close relationship with Antivirus Scan. When running in an infected computer, Antivirus Scan displays many malware infections and numerous popup alerts telling that there are many dangerous malware on your PC. And if you want to learn more about the malware and click on them, you will be directed to Protectep.com which persuades you to buy its fake license. This kind of recurring browser redirection happens due to the modifications made to your Internet settings and HOSTS file. As a result, you will be restricted to Protectep.com. No matter which website you want to visit, you will end up on Protectep.com. To permanently fix this problem, you need to ensure that Antivirus 8 is out off your PC, or it will keep manipulating your Internet session. Proceed the following removal steps and remove Antivirus Scan and Protectep.com virus for good.
Protectep.com Hijacker Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Protectep.com Virus. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files. In case you can’t surf the Internet, open Internet Explorer, go to “Tools”, choose “Internet options” and hit “Connections” tab. Click “LAN settings” and untick the option “Use a proxy server for your LAN”. Save all these changes. Now, you will be able to go to our website and download our removal tool to have AntiVirus Scan virus expelled for good.
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = ’1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter “Enabled” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = ”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = ‘http=127.0.0.1:59274′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = ’1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = ‘.exe’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = ‘no’
The files you need to delete:
%Temp%\[random]\
%Temp%\[random]\[random].exe
Please, be aware that manual removal of Protectep.com Virus is a cumbersome task and can not always ensure complete removal of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the instructions may lead to irreparable system damage. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of Protectep.com Virus, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Protectep.com Virus Removal:
1. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 Key before Windows launches. Use the arrow keys to select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then hit ENTER Key to continue.
2. Download Protectep.com Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Protectep.com Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Protectep.com Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Protectep.com Virus Remover, you can download this correction script, unzip it and then double click to run it. It will correct your registry settings that the virus has modified. Then double click the program and finish the installation.
3. After the Online Scan finishes, click “Details” for the malware detected to make sure that your important data are not infected and removed. Ignore or select the scan result and click “Remove” to remove the threats. Reboot your computer and let Protectep.com Virus Remover delete all detected virus.
4. Click to repair your corrupted registry
Why should you need to repair the registry?
As we all know, virus and Trojans modify and destroy system registry and make the computer malfunction so that the computer will not perform normally. Even if the virus and Trojans are removed, the registry is still destroyed or modified, so the computer still has problems. That’s the very reason why you need to repair the registry. At the meanwhile, some virus and Trojans leave some DLL files in the registry and this will cause strange DLL errors and affect the computer performance.
To make your computer run as perfectly as before or much faster than before:
1. Download and install Multi-Awarded Registry Tool.
2. Run a full scan of your registry.
3. Click “Repair Problems” and repair all errors detected.
After these 3 easy steps, your computer will run much faster than before within minutes!
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