2015年10月23日星期五

How to Remove Tohotweb.com Redirect Virus Effectively

My web browser was hijacked by a virus a few days ago but I fail to remove it after having tried many methods. If I search something, it presents strange results to me. For example, when I click on a search result which should link to an eBay page, it shows me the website Tohotweb.com or other unknown websites. That’s very disturbing. I tried to remove it with an antivirus program but it’s unable to delete it. What can I do remove it completely?

Tohotweb.com Desciption


Thoroughly seemingly legitimate, Tohotweb.com is actually a website related to redirect virus which is able to hijack your currently-used browsers like IE, Chrome and Firefox to its own website or others. It pretended to be a useful platform so that to satisfy user’s shopping demand but in fact was with the evil purpose of coaxing the masses of innocent users to make transactions and defraud their money. It can help Trojan and other unfriendly objects to get into system, and third party malware such as commercial adware and spyware also can insert into system and change homepage and modify browser settings without your consent. As soon as the browser is hijacked, the junk files and useless cookies will leave inside the history record. It is dangerous to leave this hijacker inside the computer.

By constantly redirecting browsers to Tohotweb.com, the redirect virus can increase the website traffic and allow the hackers to make a great profit. The products it introduces and recommends are mostly useless, and the purpose of the business it does is to trick users’ for money. Some search results offered by the search engine may have nothing to do with your search terms, and they will link to some websites which show you a lot of needless ads and other misleading messages. In addition, it brings a toolbar that cannot be removed through normal uninstall processes. This redirect virus has no built-in uninstaller and it can deeply hide in the infected computer in order to evade detection and removal by antivirus programs. The redirect virus should be removed from the infected system as soon as possible, or it will cause endless trouble to the infected computer.

Note: Tohotweb.com is very dangerous and hard to remove from PC. If you’re not sure and are afraid to make any critical mistakes during the process, please use a redirect removal tool.

Infected Symptoms:


1 You are always redirected to unwanted websites and cannot get the expected information when using the web browser.

2 It will trace your computer resource and online history to steal your valuable information aggressively.

3 The system can’t detect the newly installed applications.

4 It can embed redirect information into your system files to send all of your search results where it wants you to go.

5 Your default DNS configuration is changed and you sometimes cannot go to your favorite sites.

6 The default homepage, search engine and bookmarks of the web browser are changed suddenly without your permission.

Helpful Ways to Remove Tohotweb.com Redirect Virus


Lots of victims will try to use an antivirus program or other security tools to remove Tohotweb.com redirect hijacker, but in fact after several hours of searching, the tools can’t find anything related to this virus. However, the Tohotweb.com may be attacked by cyber criminals as adware infection which makes unexpected troubles on affected computer. It should be removed because it will take advantage of system loopholes to install additional malware onto computer for further more damage. However, the problem is that the virus you have will have changed the files / settings that your computer uses to handle the Internet settings of your PC – and will then have disappeared without a trace. Moreover, this browser hijacker can block the security tools installed on the infected PCs and hide itself deeply on the systems. Therefore, in order to completely get rid of Tohotweb.com, you have to delete all the malicious files, plug-ins as well as registry entries associated with the redirect virus thoroughly.

Guide to Manually Remove Tohotweb.com


Tohotweb.com is able to tamper with the Internet settings of browsers, such as IE, Chrome and Firefox, and make you unable to browse normally. The most annoying thing is that it redirects you to unwanted websites and changes your default homepage against your will. What’s worse, random malware like Trojans may be downloaded and installed on your PC and your computer becomes more vulnerable. The Tohotweb.com redirect virus should be removed from the victimized computer immediately in case of further damages.

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.
Remove the redirect virus from Internet Explorer:
a: Start IE, go to Tools and select Internet Options.
b: Find General section, remove Tohotweb.com 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

2. 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 Tohotweb.com 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

3. Remove the redirect virus from Google Chrome.
a: Open Google Chrome and navigate to Settings tab and Set pages.
b: Erase Tohotweb.com 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.

4. Delete all registry files created by this redirect virus.
a. While the Registry Editor is opened, search for the registry key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Tohotweb.com.” Right-click this registry key and select “Delete.”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
b. Navigate to directory %PROGRAM_FILES%\ Tohotweb.com \ 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\*.*


Note: If the above methods don’t work out for the situation in your PC, please check again if you have strictly followed the guidance.

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