How to Remove Upkendint.com Step by Step?

My homepage is hijacked by Upkendint.com. It appears on my computer suddenly without my permission. How can I remove it? 

Impact of Upkendint.com

* It is a parasitic browser hijacker

* It may show numerous annoying advertisements

* It is installed without your consent

* It will replace (hijack) your browser homepage

* It may spread lots of spyware and adware parasites

* It violates your privacy and compromises your security

Description of Upkendint.com

Upkendint.com is categorized as browser hijacker and misleading search engine. It will affect all your browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Bing, Opera, Safari. It can infiltrate into the computer along with some free software, files and drivers. You may also get infect by opening spam emails, sharing corrupt content, or clicking to unsafe web sites, and so on. You should be very careful not to click unsafe content.

Once installed, Upkendint.com will change your registries entries and start up setting. It adds itself to the browser as an extension. It will pop up when you open the browser. Your homepage and new tab will be taken control by it. You cannot get the right search results by redirecting to other websites.  It will keep track of the searching terms and your personal information such as user account, password, and financial data.In order to protect your computer in a good environment, you should remove it as soon as possible.

Guide to remove Upkendint.com step by step

Guide 1: you can delete Upkendint.com in manual way.

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 Upkendint.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 Upkendint.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 Upkendint.com.

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- 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 9- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options".

Click the "Under the Bonnet" tab, locate the "Privacy" section and Click the "Clear browsing data" button.

Select "Delete cookies and other site data" and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy

Click "Remove individual cookies"

In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"

To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie button"

To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies button"

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window

Click the "Tools" button

Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"

Tick the "cookies" box and then click “delete”

Guide 2: you can delete Upkendint.com with SpyHunter, a tool to scan viruses and removal them automatically

You may have noticed that the steps in manual method is very complex. But if you use SpyHunter to help you, it can save your time and effort.

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.

The video direction below can give you a hand

Please note, Upkendint.com is a malicious adware which will do great harms to your computer. You should really pay attention when downloading applications from the Internet. If your computer gets infected through your previous computer safeguard, you can install SpyHunter to help you for it enjoys great reputation now.You can easily download it by clicking the following icon.