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How to Remove Softbard.com Hijacker?

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Softbard.com Hijacker Information:

Softbard.com is a fraudulent website that plays an important role in the malicious campaign of an aggressive rogue antivirus called Antivirus Monitor. Softbard.com is not available for you to visit until its sponsor software has infected your Operating System. One side effect of its presence is browser hijack on the infected system. This is how Softbard.com works. When your system is infected with this scamware, you will begin to frequently run into Softbard.com that states Antivirus Monitor is the ultimate protection for your PC and leads you to its payment processing page. This browser hijack happens due to the malicious modifications made to Internet and Proxy settings. As a result, you will be forcibly rerouted to Softbard.com if you try to visit other websites and a pseudo Internet Warning will tell you that the website you try to visit is harmful to your system and offers you two options either of which will also take you to Softbard.com if clicked on. It seems that you keep vising Softbard.com. To solve this problem, it’s necessary for you to remove Softbard.com and its sponsor software that results in browser hijack. The following tutorial will guide you how to remove Antivirus Monitor and Softbard.com virus.

Softbard.com Hijacker Screenshot:

Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Softbard.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 Monitor virus expelled for good.

The registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”

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=127.0.0.1:18810″

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = “1″

The files you need to delete:

%Temp%\[random]\

%Temp%\[random]\[random].exe

Please, be aware that manual removal of Softbard.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 Softbard.com Virus, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic Softbard.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 Softbard.com Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Softbard.com Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Softbard.com Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.

NOTE: If you have problem installing Softbard.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 Softbard.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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