How to Get Rid of www.goggle.com

by Annie M. Manager

My IE is attacked which show up as frequent redirect on the browser when i open the page. It always hits me to www.goggle.com which i do not really want. I do try hard to set my default settings as homepage back but it does not work. Also i run my security tool but still can not deal with it. Is there any other way that can help remove this hijacker completely?

www.goggle.com is a nasty hijacker infection that can reroute your browser to http://goggle.com which is a malicious and fake domain. The virus is also used to show constant popup windows filled with advertisements and spam that are totally useless for you. As this virus can infect a computer silently, without letting you know it can take over your web browser like Google chrome or firefox. After it comes to your system, all of sudden you start to see strange popup ads or experience frequent URL redirects to www.goggle.com website. Besides this foreground annoyance, this virus will perform additional tasks in background which includes stealing personal user information. Hence, to block such harmful and unauthorized activities of www.goggle.com virus, you must get rid of it as soon as you can.

Infection Symptoms:

When you open the Task Manager, you can find some strange processes which you never found before.
www.Goggle.com forcibly customizes the default homepage, search engine and bookmarks of your computer.
More unrelated search results are reaching day by day;
Your computer is acting slowly.This web browser slows down your system significantly. This includes starting up, shutting down, playing games, and surfing the web.
Unfamiliar and questionable advertisements and fake alerts keep popping up on your screen.

How to Remove www.goggle.com from Your PC

Step 1: Remove the Www.goggle.com related add-ons from your browsers.
Internet Explorer:
Launch the Internet Explorer browser.
Click “Tools”, select “Manage Add-ons”, and then click “Toolbars and Extensions”.
Look for any suspicious add-ons and disable them.

Mozilla Firefox:
Launch the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Click Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”.
Remove/disable any unknown or unwanted add-ons.

Google Chrome:
Launch the Google Chrome browser.
Click on the Wrench icon, select “Tools” and click “Extensions”.
Click “Extensions”, look for the unsolicited add-ons and delete them.

Step 2: Show all hidden files and folders.
Go to the Start menu, type “folder options” into the search bar and click on “Folder Option” from the result list. Select the tab of “View”, tick “Show hidden files, folders and drives”, non-tick the “Hide protecting operating system files (Recommended)” and click OK.

Step 3: Remove all files and registry entries related to Www.goggle.com.
Go to the local disk C, search for and delete any files associated with the redirect virus.

%Temp%\random.exe
%Program Files%\random.exe
%UserProfile%\Desktop\.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\random.exe

Click Start menu, in the search box, type “Reg” and click “Registry Editor” from the result list. When the Registry Editor pops up, search for the registry entries related to the redirect virus and delete them all.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM]”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”

Step 3: Restore browser settings to default.

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt+T and click Internet options.
2. Select Advanced tab and click Reset.
3. Mark Delete personal settings and press Reset.
4. Press Close when reset is complete.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Press Alt+H and click Troubleshooting information.
2. Click Reset Firefox at the top right of a new tab.
3. When a pop-up dialog box appears, click Reset Firefox again.
4. Press Finish when reset is complete.

Google Chrome

1. Press Alt+F and click Settings.
2. Mark Open a specific page or set of pages and press Set pages.
3. Remove www.goggle.com, enter a new home page address and press OK.
4. Select Manage search engines under Search.
5. Set a new default search engine, remove www.goggle.com and click Done.

Tip: If you are not expert at computer and unsure how to manually remove the redirect virus, then you can automatically get rid of the redirect virus by downloading and using a professional removal tool.