How to Remove Copperred.com Completely

My homepage has been changed into Copperred.com and I cannot turn it back into Google. It prevents me to change the current homepage to the previous safe one and undesirable pops- up keep bombarding the screen seeming to notify me that my computer performance needs to tune up by the help of some drive-by downloads. This is really annoying. My computer system is Win7 64 bits and IE browser is my frequent used browser. How can I resolve this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Description of Copperred.com

Copperred.com is a notorious website which is related to browser hijacker and adware. This website has a seemingly legitimate interface which contains a search box in the middle of the webpage, providing users to search web, images, videos and news. However, it is actually a tool designed to trick PC users into taking it as the default search engine and browser homepage to help criminals to increase the artificial traffic and boost affiliate payments by forcing users to visit random advertising websites. If users are fooled to do so, the program will run a fake scan to system and reports that the computer is suffering from tons of virus infections. If you try to search something on this fake search engine, but all you can get are unwanted results including advertisements and porn. It tries to make users believe its fraud by exaggerating the risks computer faces and consequences of the threat using error messages and false warnings. Besides, this redirect virus will constantly pop up sorts of advertisements on your browsers, urging you to download some unknown files, toolbars, or security software. You should not rashly click on that advertisements, for any click on them could lead to invasion of other malware like Trojan, spyware and adware. 

Copperred.com redirect virus can badly affect your browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and cause annoying problems to your computer system. More seriously, it drags down your system speed and allows unwanted Plug-in/extension or add-ons get onto your browsers. It messes up your browser and you will find it unable to log in your Yahoo mail & Facebook. Furthermore, it can take over the local DNS and prevent it from any modification with the purpose of control the browser even if you have re- installed it hundreds of times. However, don’t believe the fraud it set up, try to remove the program and don’t get in touch with this evil website hijacker any more. 

To save trouble, you need to remove Copperred.com as soon as possible. Please refer to the removal guide given below if you don’t know how to perform the removal of this threat.

Troubles Caused by the Browser Hijacker

1. It modifies the browser settings without your permission and it doesn’t allow you to change the settings back.

2. It helps other malicious third-party malware get into computer via browser.

3. Other malware would be dropped into your computer when you click on the unwelcome ads.

4. The performance of the infested browser may reduce greatly for the browser hijacker utilizes it to perform insecure tasks.

5. It complicates usual surfing experience, adds unneeded features to browser, and serves unwanted website instead of the required ones.

How to Remove Browser Hijacker Step by Step?

If the antivirus software or antispyware cannot detect or delete the browser hijacker, you can choose to remove it manually step by step. Generally speaking, manual removal is a complicated and difficult process which requires enough computer skills. Luckily here we organize the manual method into 4 steps, by following them manual method will become much easier (The entries and files maybe different according to different operating system): 

1. Remove the browser hijacker from the infected computer.

Click on the Start button and select Control Panel. Click on Uninstall a program under the Programs category.

Find out and locate the programs related to Copperred.com browser hijacker. Click on the Uninstall button to remove them all.

2. Launch the infected browser and remove the add-ons or extensions related to the browser hijacker.

Internet Explorer:

Open IE, click on Tools and then select Manage Add-ons. When it opens a window, click on Toolbars and Extensions. Find out the extensions related to the browser hijacker and select them. Then, right-click them and click on the Disable option. Restart IE to finish the procedure.

Google Chrome:

Launch Google Chrome. Click on the Three-bar icon on top-right of the browser, select tools and then Extensions from the list. After that, click Extensions on the left side of the window. Locate the extension related to the browser hijacker, select it and click on the trash icon. Restart the browser to complete the procedure.

Mozilla Firefox:

Start Firefox and click on the tool menu from the top menu. Click on the Add-ons tab to open the configuration window. Then, click Extensions on the left side of this window. Now find out the extensions of the redirect virus and remove them from the browser. Restart the browser to complete the process.

3. Show hidden files and folders.

Go to Control panel again and click on Appearance and Personalization. Then double click on Folder Options. Hit the View tab, tick “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and deselect “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)” . Click on the OK button to apply the changes.

4. Delete the malicious files of Copperred.com from the local disk.

The files listed below areor reference only because the virus may has the ability to changes the names and locations of its files.

%Program Files%\ random

%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe

%AppData%\Inspector-[rnd].exe

%AppData%\vsdsrv32.exe

5. Open Registry Editor and delete the registry entries of the browser hijacker.

Press Windows+ R keys simultaneously to open the Run window. Then type “regedit” in the run box and press Enter key to open Registry Editor.

After that, find out and delete all the registry entries of Copperred.com. The below registry entries are also for reference only.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[random].exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\browser hijacker name

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System ‘DisableRegistryTools’ = 0

6. Restart the infected computer to apply all changes.

Conclusion

Copperred.com is a potential unwanted/dangerous program that related to adware and browser hijacker. Once it invades the computer, it is able to add unnecessary add-ons, plug-ins and toolbars and inject scripts to the browsers and make the web browsers cannot function normally. It must be frustrating when Copperred.com appears on the browser each time it starts up. Even if you have reset the browsers or reinstalled the browsers, you still fail to remove the redirect virus. This redirect virus will also frequently pop up a number of ads, discounts, deals and coupons on your browsers, most of which are mainly based on your search terms and browsing history – this could prove that this redirect virus would collect your confidential information while it stays on your computer. To guard your private information and financial related account from undesirable attacks, you should remove Copperred.com immediately. 

Note: It needs certain level of computer knowledge and skills to manually remove the redirect virus. If you still don’t clearly know how to manually remove the threat after reading the guide above, please download and use an automatic removal tool instead.