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Thursday, December 26, 2013

How to Uninstall Outfox.TV - Delete Outfox.TV Manually

Outfox.TV is a nasty and risky browser hijacker virus which claims that it will help computer users boost their experience of web browsing. In fact, it doesn’t perform what it claims to be but only causes many unpredictable interferences and damages to victims’ PC system. In general, Outfox.TV comes bundled with unreliable free applications such as video recorders, PDF creators, music players, and so forth. If you pay little attention to installing freeware, the malicious virus will be silently injected into your bookmark list on your browser whose shortcut will be attached to your desktop. After getting installed onto your affected browser, Outfox.TV virus will hijack your browser (such as IE, Firefox and Chrome) and redirect your online search to unexpected harmful web pages. It’s really a pity that your online activity is disordered by the virus since then. Apart from its modification in your default homepage and search provider, it’s also able to install its related add-ons and browser plug-ins onto your browser for vicious intentions. Meanwhile, you may be bothered by a ton of pop-up advertisements and sponsored links luring you to purchase its promoting products.
With time goes by, Outfox.TV will take up a large amount of system resource, causing high consumption of CPU and freezing the system up at random. If you have it lingered around your PC long, it would replicate itself and spread wildly over the targeted machine to mess up the whole PC system sooner or later. Another thing that should be pointed out is that the Outfox.TV virus corrupts more system files, brings in other kinds of threats or viruses, and even leaks out confidential information (keywords, login usernames and passwords) illicitly. Considering the safety of your computer, security experts suggest that Outfox.TV redirect should be eliminated from the affected machine as soon as possible.

Outfox.TV has those harmful symptoms

1. It sneaks into random computer by utilitying system vulnerabilties without letting you know
2. It makes changes in browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox
3. It replaces the home page and search engine and shows numerous sponsored links
4. It causes continual redirects to misleading websites and generates various ads
5. It monitors online activities and steals personal information especially bank account data
6. It may introduce many other computer threats like Trojans, spyware, and malware
7. It occupies most of the system resources and slows down the whole PC performance

Learn to remove Outfox.TV completely and manually

Step 1- Click “Start”, go to “Control Panel” to uninstall Outfox.TV.
If you are using Windows Xp, Click "Start", choose "Settings" and click "Control Panel". Locate and click "Add or Remove Programs". Locate "Outfox.TV" select this entry and click Remove.
If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, go to the "Start" menu, select "Control Panel". Locate "Programs and Features". Track "Outfox.TV" select this entry and click Uninstall.

Step 2- Remove add-ons:
Internet Explorer
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.
Google Chrome
1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';
2) Choose 'Basic Options'.
3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';
2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;
3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';

Step 3- Show all hidden files
1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
3. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
4. When the control panel opens click on the Appearance and Personalization link.
5. Under the Folder Options category, click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.
6. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.

Step 4- Locate and delete Outfox.TV associated files:
%UserProfile%\[random].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
%AppData%Local.Outfox.TV.exe

Step 5- Detect and remove Outfox.TV related registry entries:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Outfox.TV \DisplayName Outfox.TV

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Please beware that this is a self help manual guide; you need to have sufficient skills in dealing with registries entries, dll. files and program files. Outfox.TV virus is such a tricky infection that it has the ability to frequently update its version and change its malicious codes all the time. To guarantee a complete removal without data loss, you’re kindly recommended to click here to download SpyHunter to help you.

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