How to Remove Www.adobeupdate2014.com Browser Hijacker from Your Computer? (Manual Removal Guide)

Recently I have a websites always pop up on my screen. Is Www.adobeupdate2014.com a virus? I don’t need it, how can I remove it? This post is going to give step-by-step removal guides which help you safely and quickly remove Www.adobeupdate2014.com. 

Analysis on Www.adobeupdate2014.com 

Www.adobeupdate2014.com is a browser hijacker that will change your browser setting and default homepage. Every time you open your browser, Www.adobeupdate2014.com will pop up on your screen and displays a message saying “It is recommended you update Flash Player to the latest version to view this page. Please update to continue.” See the below picture. While this is a fake warning, you should not believe it.

Www.adobeupdate2014.com can come into your computer along with some freeware, updated program, unknown email attachment and sharing files. Once installed, Www.adobeupdate2014.com will change your registry settings and windows settings. It will run itself automatically at the background. When you open your browser, it will redirect you to Www.adobeupdate2014.com. You cannot use your default search engine and homepage.

If you follow the steps to update the program, you will get other unwanted programs install. With those programs, the hackers can easily get into your computer and control your computer remotely. This malware can also keep track of your search terms and personal information. Your information will be under high risk of being stolen and sent to the cyber criminals to do malicious activities. It is recommended to remove this infection as soon as possible.

Technical details for removing Www.adobeupdate2014.com 

On a whole, Www.adobeupdate2014.com can be deleted in two means. Its entries and files and running progresses can be removed manually if you have a good knowledge of computer. But if you don't, you are suggested to install an powerful antivirus to help you. Here, we'd like to introduce SpyHunter to you.

Mean One: 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- 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- 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 these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%CommonPrograms%\Startup\Launch\[Www.adobeupdate2014.com].lnk
%AppData%\random. ini
%Temp%\[random].exe

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)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\[random].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[random site]

Mean Two: Removal with SpyHunter

Step 1- Click on the Download button and save its application into your computer.

Step 2- Then a prompt box will pop up to ask you if you will run it, click Run and wait for its installation.

Step 3- When it finishes installation, click on the Scan Computer Now button to begin scanning, when it displays the final report of detected threats, remove them.

Learn to remove browser hijacher by watching this video

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