Wednesday, October 16, 2013

How to Remove 4shared.com Community Toolbar

 Description of 4shared.com Community Toolbar?


4shared.com Community is a toolbar that get installed in your computer without your permission. It is a dangerous toolbar to the computer as its designers try to use it to get into your computer. Basically, 4shared.com Community Toolbar usually packs with Spam mails or disguise it as innocent attachments. When people click it out of curiosity, they computer will get infected with this nasty virus. Second, some insecure sites may contain virus and you will easily get infected with if you visit them. The last and most common way for this virus to spread is by bundling with other programs and if you choose to install it by the typical way instead of custom way, then there are much great possibility of being infected with this virus.


When a computer infected with 4shared.com Community Toolbar, its browser homepage might be changed and replaced with other home page and system setting is also changed in order to better reside in a compromised computer. Besides, 4shared.com Community Toolbar also add corrupted registry to the start-up items so that every time when you start your computer, it will be launched. But those redundant registry values are unnecessary to the computer and thus will give birth to the slowdown of your computer. During its running, tons of junk files will be created. They not only take up certain amount of resource, but also occupy the hardware. To top those all is that 4shared.com Community Toolbar can provide convenience to hackers and make gain the access to your computer without much effort.


Some antivirus could not report this virus because it is considered a legal part of the browser. There are many toolbars in the computer and lacking of one of will lead to the failure of some functions. That’s why the antivirus could not report. But when the antivirus did report that, it had already damaged the computer. So it is very pressing to remove it before it makes more damage to the computer.


How to Remove it?

 

Step -1:  Restart your computer in to the Safe Mode with Networking.


Step-2: Remove it from the browser.
1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';
2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;
3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;
4)  Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.


Step-3: Go to the registry editor and then remove corrupted and redundant registry values.
Hit Win+R and then type regedit and hit Enter finally.


Find the following registry values and then delete them all:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Step-4: Restart your computer to make your change effective.

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