Guide to Remove How-internet-works.net Step by Step

Symptoms of How-internet-works.net:

* It is a parasitic browser hijacker installed without your consent;
* It adds strange new icons and desktop backgrounds;
* It violates your privacy and compromises your security;
* It will replace (hijack) your browser homepage and show numerous annoying advertisements;
* It introduces other unwanted programs to the system without the user’s knowledge.

Description of How-internet-works.net

How-internet-works.net is a malicious browser hijacker which acts as an advertising platform to serve pop-up, banner, and full page advertisements. usually, How-internet-works.net will get injected into the target system when the user download free software and updated products from the internet.

Once insatlled, How-internet-works.net will make changes to browser settings including replace your default homepage search engine to How-internet-works.net. When you open the browser, it will start itself as browser helper object which run each time browser is opened. It can appear on browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox.

How-internet-works.net will display Pop-up ads, fake Windows errors and advise on its webpage. It will promote to you its products to help to enhance your computer performance or other services. How-internet-works.net can also record online credentials like username and password. To protect your computer, it is better remove it as soon as possible.

Screenshot of How-internet-works.net

Solutions to remove How-internet-works.net 

In this post, there will be two solutions to remove How-internet-works.net:

1. Remove How-internet-works.net manually.

2. Remove How-internet-works.net by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Instructions to Get Rid of How-internet-works.net

Method 1: How-internet-works.net Manual Deletion

Step 1: Reset your browser setting

Firefox:

In the drop-down list of Firefox, go to Help and click on Troubleshooting Information.

Click on the Reset Firefox button to reset it.

Google Chrome: 

Click on the Chrome menu on the right of toolbar and then select Settings.

Scroll down to the bottom to click Show advanced settings.

Go down to the bottom and click Reset browser settings to reset Google Chrome to its default setting.

IE: 

Click Tools on the up right corner and select Internet Options.

Click on Advanced tab, press Reset button to reset IE to its default settings.

Step 2: Disable all startup items created by How-internet-works.net

Click on Start button and select Run…

Type msconfig to start System Configuration Utility

At the tab of Startup, select possible startup items of Blasteroids, then press OK

Step 3: Remove files of How-internet-works.net  like the pictures showed:

Step 4: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all the infection registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "SearchAssistant" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"

Step 5: All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Method  2: Automatic Removal with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a world-famous real-time malware protection and removal tool, which is designed to detect , remove and protect your PC from the latest malware attacks, such as Trojans, worms, rootkits, rogue viruses, browser hijacker, ransomware, adware, key-loggers, and so forth. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow. 

Step 1: Press the following button to download SpyHunter.

Step 2: Save it into your computer and click on the Run choice to install it step by step.

Step 3: Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Scan computer now!

Step 4: Tick Select all and then Remove to delete all threats.

Note: Manual removal is very complex and demands a high computer skill. If you are not so professional on computer. Spyhunter can be your better choice, because it is capable of auto-detecting and removing viruses.

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