How to Eliminate Seekit.com Redirect Virus Totally?

Posted by Alice Bonnie
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Nov 10, 2016
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Seekit.com is created to interfere with innocent computer users’ browsing activities and cause browser hijacking. Once users’ computers get infected by this redirect virus, the browser settings and DNS settings may be furtively changed without any consent. It is able to sneak into the affected computer via exploiting system security holes, p2p, spam emails, attachments,online chats and other unprotected networks. Under the circumstances, when users start their affected web browsers and do a search, they may be redirected to unwanted websites suddenly. Then they cannot access some common websites that they usually visited before because the sites are blocked by the browser hijacker.

In most cases, Seekit.com redirects users to various advertising sites that they never heard of and shows them tons of pop-up advertisements. If users are taken in by the browser hijacker, cyber criminals can make use of it to make illegal profits. As most ads sites provided by the redirect virus are always so tempting that you may click those banners or headline and then fall victim to the trap. The information on the Seekit.com redirect virus can not be trusted at all, PC users should pay attention to this fake search engine to avoid further damage from the cyber criminals.

You may often be redirected to Seekit.com or other shopping websites when you want to open a new tab or web page. Some users may consider it is not a big problem to use the new search engine and just don’t take any action to get rid of it. But that is not true. The system has been already under the total permanent control of Seekit.com in case it is permitted to get installed on the system. It makes unauthorized modifications that makes whole security system vulnerable to unwanted Waldemar and virus. As thus, the infected computer performances would be decelerated due to those malwares and viruses take up a large amount of system resources. If users don’t take immediate actions to remove those threats, they would face various troublesome problems. Thus, users should delete the redirect virus as soon as possible before everything goes wrong.

Step by Step to Remove Seekit.com Virus Thoroughly

Step 1: Remove the redirect virus related programs.
1. Click Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Click on Uninstall a program under the Programs category.
3. In the programs list find out any suspicious programs, and then click on the Uninstall.
4. Follow the wizard to accomplish the removal.
Step 2: Remove all unwanted extensions from the browsers.
Internet Explorer
1. Start the Internet Explorer, click on Tools, and select Manage Add-ons in the drop-down list.
2. Click on Toolbars and Extensions, find out and disable the add-ons related to Seekit.com redirect virus.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Run the Mozilla Firefox, click on Tools and choose Add-ons.
2. Click on Extensions, then select the unwanted add-ons in the list and click on Remove\Disable button.
3. Click Plugins, and remove\disable any unknown add-ons.
Google Chrome
1. Launch Google Chrome and click on the menu icon.
2. Click the Tools in the list then select Extensions.
3. Click on Extensions, then find out the redirect virus related add-ons and delete them.
Step 3: Remove all malicious files and registry entries.
1. In the local disk C, local the following folders:
%Temp%\
%Program Files%\
%UserProfile%\Desktop\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\
%Document and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\
2. In the above folders, find out and remove any malicious files.
3. Open the registry editor by following the steps: click Start menu, type “regedit” into the search box, and click “regedit.exe” from the results list.
4. In the registry editor, find out and delete any malicious registry entries from your PC.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

 
Conclusion

It is quite hard for most PC users to detect the Seekit.com redirect infection by their own. Victims are not aware of the danger of the hijacker virus until things become pretty worse. Cyber criminals make use of the ignorant computer users to make illegal money. Thus, cyber users need to pay more attention to their computer performance so as to take prompt measures to get rid of the potential threats from their PCs to safeguard the systems. The common method used by virus to deliver through the internet is third party programs as freeware and shareware, any installation of such process will lead to system crash. Unprotected drive- by downloads is one of the avenues that can attract hazardous Seekit.com. If you have difficulty in manually removing the redirect virus, then you can try using an advanced malware removal tool to perform an automatic removal of this threat. 

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