Professionaln.com Virus Removal

How to Remove Professionaln.com Redirect Virus from Your PC Completely

Professionaln.com is a nasty redirect infection which attacks PC users’ browsers, once being infected, it will modify settings on the targeted browser to change its homepage to Professionaln.com redirect site. By doing this, the redirect virus can interfere with users’ browsing habits. Since the redirect virus looks like a legitimate website which is similar to Google search, most cyber users may pay no attention to it and use it to search for information, being redirected to unwanted websites in the end.

When doing a search using the unsolicited search engine, users may be provided with many ads and sponsored links, since Professionaln.com can control what would be shown in the search results. Despite of the weird phenomena happen on the browsers, the redirect virus also cause constant popping up of ads which aims at misleading the net users to click and redirecting them to domain web pages. It is created to generate advertisement revenue by hijacking innocent computer users to certain websites and tricking them into clicking on commercial ads and sponsored links. Most of the time, careless users can’t help being attracted by the coupons, discounts, bargains and other promotions and clicking on them. So some people don’t mind getting the frequent pop-up advertisements or being redirected to advertising websites.

If the redirect virus can cater to the need of you and you don’t mind it, it may cause potential harm to your computer in the further if it is left on the computer. Once browser settings has been under the control of Professionaln.com redirect virus, loads of perilous extensions, plug- ins and add- on will be allowed to get installed on it which may severely damage the system. 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. Moreover, the redirect virus may provide users with random links that might have been compromised by cyber criminals. Once users visit them, various viruses, Trojans, spyware or other malware can be downloaded and installed on the targeted computer without permission.


How to Remove Professionaln.com Redirect Virus From Your PC Completely?
Step 1: Stop the processes of the Trojan in Task Manager.

1)Open Windows Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Shift+ESC or Ctrl+Alt+Del. together.

2)Search for its running malicious processes of the Trojan, and then stop them all by clicking on “End Process” button. (The virus process can be random)

Step 2: Delete all the files associated with the Trojan.

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”

Step 3: Get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan.

1)Press Window + R keys together. When Run pops up, type regedit into the box and click OK to launch Registry Editor.

Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER directories, find out and get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan immediately.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunRegedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Note: Please back up your computer before any file changes in case that you can restore your information and data if you make any mistake during the process.

Step 4: Restart the computer to normal mode after these steps are done.

Conclusion

Professionaln.com will invader the target computer by hiding in some programs, pretending as a useful item to let PC users install. It also comes bundled with legit programs or media format files. Most of the victims won’t notice that they have come across Professionaln.com redirect virus.

In order to avoid this redirect infection, PC users need to be careful while surfing on the Internet, once finding homepage has been replaced without your permission, PC users should realize that their computer may be attacked by the redirect virus. When encounter this threat, users should run the installed antivirus programs to scan the system entirely. After, reset the default settings back and give the infected computer more protection. It is developed to help users to detect and delete the threat automatically from the computer without damage.