How to Get Rid of DragonBoost (Adware Removal Guide)

DragonBoost seems to be a useful application claiming to help enhance users¡¯ browsing experience and save their time & money by offering lots of coupons, deals, offers, promotions, discounts and banner ads when they are browsing online shopping websites. In fact, it¡¯s exactly a nasty program that focuses on your help to enhance related sales via controlling your all browsers. In order to deliver you personalized ads, it may collect the websites you visited, the information you typed, the keywords you entered and other non-personally identifiable data. Keep in mind that you never click on any ads powered by DragonBoost, no matter how curious you are to know, because the ads may redirect you to unsafe websites. Then you will see in-text, pop-ups, banners and coupon ads on your screen out of nowhere when you are surfing the Internet, and even your valuable information will be stolen for illegal beanefits. In order to avoid damage, it is suggested that PC users should get rid of DragonBoost adware as soon as possible.

How Does DragonBoost Enter Your Computer?

Usually, it is quite easy for these unwanted adware programs to get into users¡¯ computers, for adware can be bundled with third-party freeware/shareware on the Internet, such as media player, download manager, online games and so on. Users¡¯ carelessness during the installation of such freeware tends to open a door for the adware programs to get into their computers. Besides, you ought to pay more attention to bundled installers, such as various plug-ins, toolbars, add-ons and extensions, which may be installed along with the target program¡¯s installation at the same time. We are not suggesting that you install any program that carries another freeware, so for the sake of opting them out, we will give you some useful tips. First, sufficiently note End-User¡¯s License Agreement of target program to be installed to avoid nasty attachments, such as third party sponsorship, tracking cookies, etc. Moreover, do not choose Advanced or Custom installation mode, which may result in installing some unwanted programs. In addition, pay more attention to those dubious check boxes which tacitly claim you agree to bring in add-on of this threat or other suspicious program. If not, you may encounter with a lot of issues that may corrupt your browsing activities and cause infiltration of suspicious programs.

Remove DragonBoost Completely

This adware is a potential threat to the computer security. It can open backdoor process so that cyber criminals could invade the targeted computer easily. This guide will help you remove this malicious adware from your browser and computer completely.

1. Stop running processes related to this redirect virus
a: When the Windows Task manager appears, switch to Processes tab.
b: Find out and select the processes related to the virus by name random.exe, and click on the ¡°End process¡± button.
2. Remove the redirect virus from Internet Explorer:
a: Start IE, go to Tools and select Internet Options.
b: Find General section, remove the unwanted address as a home page.
c: Then go to Search section, find Settings button and choose Manage Add-ons
d: Erase the redirect and after the action, close Manage Add-ons
3. Remove the redirect virus from Mozilla Firefox:
a: Open Mozilla Firefox browser, click on tools and go to Options.
b: Switch to General tab, remove the unwanted address as a startup site.
c: Then, go to: Firefox -> Add-ons -> Add-ons Manager -> Remove.
d: In the Search list, select Manage Search Engines and erase this redirect and choose OK
4. Remove the redirect virus from Google Chrome:
a: Open Google Chrome and navigate to Settings tab and Set pages.
b: Erase DragonBoost which was seta as the startup site and choose OK
c: Find Manage search engines and here, erase this redirect.
d: Press on OK, and restart Google Chrome.
5. Delete all registry files created by this redirect
a. While the Registry Editor is opened, search for the registry key ¡°HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ DragonBoost.¡± Right-click this registry key and select ¡°Delete.¡±
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ¡°[RANDOM].exe¡±
b. Navigate to directory %PROGRAM_FILES%\ DragonBoost \ and delete the infected files manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\*.*

How to Protect the PC From Such Unwanted Programs?

You should be very careful when surfing on the internet and use caution when downloading and installing software on your computer. Bear in mind that you should download them from its official site. At the same time, while installing a piece of freeware, you may only remember to choose Next or Accept option, which makes malware have a chance to get into your computer successfully because it often lurks in additional programs along with free software. Before the download, find as more information as you can and then read them carefully. Make sure every program you download from the Internet is safe to run on your PC.