2014-01-14

Best Way to Remove Myinfotopia Plugin Easily and Permanently

My computer is infected with this nasty Myinfotopia Plugin. I try every way to stop it, but no luck. Could you tell me how to completely remove it? These step-by-step guides can help you get rid of Myinfotopia Plugin. 

Information of Myinfotopia Plugin


Myinfotopia Plugin, as its name says, it is an unwanted plugin or a browser add-on that can attach on all the browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and other frequented-used browsers. This plugin may come into your computer along with the freeware or updated programs you download from the internet. You may also get this infection by opening unknown email attachments, clicking to malicious websites and links. 

Myinfotopia Plugin seems a nice program to give better online experience by helping users to quick access to the websites and speed up the loading pages. But users find out it is a useless program which will bring a lot of troubles to the computer system.

Once MyInfotopia plugin is installed, it will change your browser setting and default homepage. When you open your browser, it will pop up on your screen and displays a lot of pop-up ads, coupons and sponsor links.  It states to help users to save money and time when shopping online. But it does more harms than good. If you click to close those ads and links, another websites will pop up to display the pop-up ads instead. You may also get other infections by clicking to the malicious links.  It will keep record of your confidential data and send them to the cyber criminals. It is recommended to remove this plugin immediately.

MyInfotopia plugin removal guide

Guide 1: Like many people, they would like to resort to the manual method. For example, disable startup items in System Configuration Utility. More details are as follows.

Step 1- Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from MyInfotopia

For Windows Xp: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the Run box -> click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from MyInfotopia.

For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from MyInfotopia.



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- 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 4- 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 5- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers\ipsec.sys
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dnsrslvr.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ipnathlp.dll


Step 6- 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)


HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\apnstub_RASAPI32
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\apnstub_RASMANCS

Guide 2: As another effective choice, SpyHunter can detect and remove potential threats in your computer, then you don't need to do all the complicated things in manual method.



Step 1- Download the free scanner of SpyHunter into your computer.


Step 2- Install it into computer step by step.


Step 3- When it succeeds in installing, make it scan your computer and remove all potential threats by pressing Remove.

Video direction for manual removal




NOTE: Since Myinfotopia Plugin can cause so many horrible consequences. Get down to solving it with the guides above. If you don't want to waste your precious time, download SpyHunter to help you.


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