Keep receiving YourSoftSite.com pop-ups when open the browser? Have no idea how and when it came into your computer? Try many ways to get rid of YourSoftSite.com pop-ups but no luck? Here the post will show you the removal guides.
Description of YourSoftSite.com
Recently, many users complain about YourSoftSite.com. At the beginning, this is a legal website, but users find pop-ups from YourSoftSite.com every time when they open the browser. As a matter of fact, this websites is hacked by cyber criminals to make profits. There is a message pop up and ask you to complete a survey to win an ipad. The promote products via YourSoftSite.com. They will get the revenue by generating traffic.
Once infected, your browser setting will be changed, and your default homepage will be replaced by YourSoftSite.com. It will add malicious toolbar and plugin to your browser. When you open browser, you will be redirected to other malicious websites which will pop up a lot of ads, banners, coupons and sponsor links. If you follow the steps to completely the survey, you may get other infections downloaded.
YourSoftSite.com can come into your computer along with free or update programs, spam email attachments, hacked web sites or links. You can follow the removal guide below, which includes the manual one and the automatic one with SpyHunter, an antivirus.
Step-by-step guides to uninstall YourSoftSite.com
Guide 1: Manual Removal
Step 1- Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):
Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.
Step 2- Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from YourSoftSite.com
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 YourSoftSite.com.
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 YourSoftSite.com.
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- 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 5- 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 6- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe %Temp%\random.exe
Guide 2: YourSoftSite.com Removal with SpyHunter
Step 1- Press the following icon to download SpyHunter.
Step 3- Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Start New Scan.
Step 4- Tick Select All and then Remove to delete all reported threat.
Video tutorials for your reference
Conclusion: Though both two ways can remove this ill-motivated program, one can easily find that removing it on your own without any assistance is troublesome. The steps included in manual operation are complex. But with SpyHunter, it only requires you to click certain buttons. So if you are finding a way to delete it in a quick and efficient way, you can try with SpyHunter. Buttons below can connect you to its installer.
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