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.
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