How to Remove Sd-steam.info Redirect Thoroughly?

Sd-steam.info redirect virus is a new browser hijacker that is designed to attack and occupy Internet browsers, forcibly modifying the browser original settings, replacing user’s favorite homepage with Sd-steam.info. By this means, the the tricky redirect virus will completely take control of the user’s default search service. Sd-steam.info seems like a reliable and multi-functional search service, many computer users may pay no attention to it and use it as their default homepage.

When doing a search using the unsolicited search engine, users may be provided with many ads and sponsored links, since Sd-steam.info can control what would be shown in the search results. The threat not only hijacks the browsers, but also delivers constant pop-up ads on the target computer screen, especially when users launch some third-party applications, so as to attract users to click on those ads and have a visit. In most cases, those shopping websites may be phishing websites for collecting user’s privacy information and then help cyber criminals to steal their money. Most of the time, innocent users get lured in by commodity sales promotion, activity coupons, discounts on goods, and bargains that released by the redirect virus. Some users just could not resist on such lure of price trap.

Sd-steam.info is capable of changing your default browser silently but it is difficult to change it back. At the same time, the browser will work slowly, get stuck and sometimes crash. As a consequence, the infected browsers will act more and more wired than before, for instance, they will suddenly get stuck or even crash down. Besides, the redirect virus may add lots of malicious website URLs to users’ Favorite folder and Bookmark list. Under such circumstance, the victims of the infected computer will get more and more troubles including information revealing, data loss, and attacks from other malware and viruses.

How to Remove Sd-steam.info Virus Effectively

Step one: set the default homepage back
For Internet Explorer:
1. Click on Browser Tools
2. Select Manage Add-Ons on the tools window
3. Click Search Provider
4. Here you can see many kinds of search engine option as Bing and Google, select your favorite one to be a default homepage.
5. Choose Search Results and click on Remove icon to eliminate it
6. Click Tools, select Internet Options and then the General tab. Here you can option a website you like and save it.
c. Select the unwanted address and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
For Google Chrome:
1. Open Customize and control
2. Click on Settings
3. Select on Basic Options icon
4. Here you can reset your homepage (e.g.Google.com）
5. Once you choose a default homepage, click on Manage Search Engines and then click Google to be your default search engine.
6. Remove it from the browser by clicking Sd-steam.info and then the X’ mark
For Mozilla Firefox:
1. Click Manage Search Engine
2. Select Search Results and then click Remove option, click OK
3. Open Tools, under the General tab, set Google.com as default homepage
Step two: locate related files of the redirect virus and remove them from the computer
%AllUsersProfile%
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random letters}\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~dll
Step three: Remove Cookies on all Browsers
Internet Explorer:
a. Click options on the browser and then choose Internet Options
b. Open General tab, click Delete Browsing History to remove all related cookies
c. Select cookies and click Delete
Firefox:
a. Click option
b. Select Privacy and then click on Remove Individual Cookies icon
c. Delete relevant cookies list on the box
Google Chrome:
a. Click option
b. Open Under the Bonnet tab
c. Select Privacy and then click Clear browsing data
d. Delete all cookies
Step four: Remove Malicious Registry
a. Open Registry Editor on the start menu
b. Type in Regedit and click OK
c. Remove all the following registry entries
HKEY
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ‘1’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ‘0’

Conclusion

Generally, Sd-steam.info redirect virus breaks into the targeted computers by coming bundled with a junk email attachment, pretending itself to be a legitimate file (such as audio file, image file, or txt file) and cheating users into click on the attachment. Apart from player update, it still can utilize third party process as free download, music files or movie to finish its automatically installation by bundling with them. Majority PC users are short of security consciousness, when they find that their homepage is replaced or there are a lot of pup ups on the screen, that they do is just letting it stay there and do nothing and then miss the removal time.

It is necessary to improve the awareness of keeping away from browser redirect virus, while any strange symptoms as replacement of homepage, redirection of search result and additional download are found on the browsers, users need to check if there is a browser virus on the system. The effective way for prevention is to get rid of the unwanted plug-ins in the browser. Afterwards, reset the computer and optimize real-time protection for Internet activities. Meanwhile, it is necessary for PC users to make a double check on every file downloaded from Internet.