Ixquick.com virus Removal Guide

Ixquick.com virus is a tricky and annoying browser hijacker with the purpose of cyber criminal. It is created for illegal advertisements promoting in computers of victim, changing your default homepage and search engine without your notice. First, judging from its interface, it looks like a search engine, proving useful search service for you for free just like what Google search does. However, if you look it further, you will find those annoying advertisements displayed on your browser which basically different from Google. Besides, Ixquick.com virus can even stealthily download lots of unwanted programs into your computer without your permission. With lots of useless programs been installed into your computer, taking the limited resource of your system, your computer will gradually turn very unsmooth and slow. So, it goes without a doubt, Ixquick.com should be removed from your computer as soon as possible, no matter methods you want to use. Here, I’m going to offer you a method below which I have helped many victims out of this issue. You can keep following this article to check it out. If you need some help, you can basically contact our professional experts to get help.

Why Ixquick.com virus can not be uninstalled by antivirus program?

It happens a lot that computer has found weird symptoms on contaminated system, but installed Antivirus or Anti-spyware has no report about any viruses. In this Internet era, viruses are developing, so do their hiding techniques. It takes time for Antivirus to update its definition or signature. Ixquick.com is the tricky and stubborn virus to handle by new computer users. If there is no proper removal tool, then this risky virus should be removed with effective method manual approach. To manually eliminate Ixquick.com from Windows xp, vista, win 7 or win 8 of an affected computer, here are the useful removal steps.

Harms belong to Ixquick.com:

a. It is a parasitic Browser Hijacker;
b. It may show numerous annoying advertisements;
c. It is installed without your consent;
d. It will replace (hijack) your browser homepage;
e. It may spread lots of spyware and adware parasites;
f. It violates your privacy and compromises your security.

How to Remove Ixquick.com Step by Step?

Before performing the manual removal of Ixquick.com, reboot your computer and before Windows interface loads, press F8 key constantly. Choose "Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.

1. Launch the Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time, search for Ixquick.com processes and right-click to end them.

2. Open Control Panel in 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.

3. Tap Windows+R keys together to pop up the Run box, type in regedit and hit OK to open Registry Editor; then find out the following Ixquick.com registry entries and delete:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

4. Get rid of the listed files created by Ixquick.com:

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random

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