Remove/Stop FlippyRoo Virus by Manual Removal

FlippyRoo installed on your computer without your knowing when and how? Have no ideas how to remove the virus? The step-by-step guides in this post can help you safely and quickly remove FlippyRoo. 

Basic information of FlippyRoo Virus

FlippyRoo, also known as http://flippyroo.net, is a nasty browser hijacker that will take over the browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. This infection comes into your computer without your awareness and permission. You may get it install by downloading freeware and updated programs.

 

After installing, it will change the browser setting, and then changes your homepage and the default search engine. When you open your browser, it will redirect you to the Flippyroo.net to your browser instead of your default web search. You will always get the wrong and unexpected websites.

http://Flippyroo.net is a ads-supported website that displays commercial advertisements, banners and sponsor links which help the cyber criminals to make profit. It will keep record of your searching history and collect sensitive information, and then send to the hackers. Flippyroo.net is a dangerous infection that must be removed to protect the computer system from further infections.

Fast and effective ways to delete Flippyroo from your computer

Like many similar cases, you can delete it manually like the following steps. But when you carry out the manual steps, you may probably get problems, because it is hard for an inexperienced users to delete it manually and successfully.In this case, download a antivirus to help you. SpyHunter can be a better choice for you.

Way 1: Delete it manually

Step 1- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 2- Show all hidden files

Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 3- 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 4- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AppData%\Protector-[random].exe
%appdata%\npswf32.dll
%appdata%\Inspector-[rnd].exe
%desktopdir%\ FlippyRoo.lnk

Step 5- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run!Inspector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\agentw.exe\
Debugger = svchost.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AlphaAV\Debugger = svchost.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Ad-Aware.exe\Debugger = svchost.exe

Way 2: Effective deletion with SpyHunter

Step 1- Download SpyHunter by pressing the following button.

Step 2- Click Save and then Run to install it into your computer.

Step 3- Now, a window of SpyHunter can be seen, you can start a quick or full scan of your computer by clicking Start New Scan. Finally, click Remove to delete all threats. 

Step-by-step video guide for manual removal

Please Attention: SpyHunter is one of the most useful and trustworthy anti-spy tool. It can start a quick or full scan in your computer under your command and expose threats you seldom notice. Once it is installed, you don't need to do such complicated things showed in the manual solution, what you need to do is just to press certain buttons. It's very convenient. If you are interested, click the following button to install it.