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Infected by Search.iminent.com hijacker? How can I remove the risky browser hijacker completely?
What is Search.iminent.com?
Search.iminent.com is browser hijacker that is similar to IMinent toolbar infection. The appearance of the page looks like a legal website with its top menu or search bar, supposedly offering net users functions to browse web, images, shopping and videos, etc. Such a tricky browser hijacker usually comes from network and attacks your computer when you visit harmful websites, installing risky toolbars or downloading freeware from infected web pages unwarily. In fact, this redirect virus contains Trojan, rootkit or other malware virus, invading your computer deeply. When your computer has compromised this redirect virus, the browser will be automatically redirected to search.iminent.com or its related content.
When computer users attempt to enter links in Yahoo, Bing or Google search engine, it will pop up lots of annoying advertising pages. Also, those annoying pops up may asking computer users to install unnecessary ads-on, download freeware and even purchase some unwanted products. The redirect comes bundled with lots of spyware and adware and can make your computer unusable. It will slow down your computer speed and make your computer unstable. The virus will also delete computer victim’s files and steal their personal information and other sensitive data. Therefore, it is necessary to remove it immediately and make sure the security of your computer. It is not only a browser hijacker but also a data thief.
Search.iminent.com will definitely change your registry settings and other important windows system files, in order to make your system vulnerable and add many malicious codes to the contaminated system secretly. If the virus could not be removed immediately, it will cause users’ computers crash. What’s worse, its infection will keep the tail of users’ search results then send data to remote hackers, and then hackers will try to steal personal information such as passwords, credit card, bank account data etc. So it is a great threat for computer users’ personal information security. This hijacker virus will display many fake alert warnings, stating that your PC is infected with trojans or other malwares that do not actually exist. Computer users should ignore these warning shown by it.
How Do You Identify Your Computer Get Infected with This Hijacker Virus?
Search.iminent.com virus installed in your computer without your permission and is a great threat for your computer. This virus may redirect your internet browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome and so on. That is why you are casually redirected to Search.iminent.com or other risky related web pages even though you just click on your familiar web links. The redirect virus will change your browser settings and browser home page, and change default search engine. It will display numerous annoying pop-ups on your screen every time you play games, surf the net and watch videos online.
After the virus is installed, computer’s firewalls and antivirus would not work. It may produce many fake alert warnings, stating that your PC is infected with Trojans or other malwares that do not actually exist. Then it will install malicious toolbars like IBIS Toolbar secretly. Lastly, your system performance will run slowly and it is difficult to remove this hijacker virus.
Search Iminent “Search The Web” Virus Symptoms
How Dangerous of This Hijacker Infection?
This redirect virus makes chaos to your web browsing activities, such as modifying your default search engine, homepage and browser settings, displaying pesky pops up and redirecting your Internet search results and so on. It will change your registry settings and other important windows system files, if the virus could not be removed immediately, it will cause users' computer crash. What’s worse, this infection contains Trojan which would steal the users’ personal information such as passwords, credit card, bank account data etc.
So it is a great threat for computer users’ personal information security. The virus will display many fake alert warnings, stating that your PC is infected with trojans or other malwares that do not actually exist. Computer users should ignore these warning shown by the redirect virus.
How to Remove This Hijacker Virus Manually?
Now that we know the browser hijacker can’t be deleted by anti-virus software completely. It won’t make any difference if you try another anti-virus program. Thus, manual removal will be a better way to get rid of the stubborn hijacker infection entirely. Since manual removal is quite a complicated process, then it requires computer users to be cautious when going ahead to delete any virus affected files. In order to regain a clean computer soon, please follow these steps to get rid of this Search.iminent.com hijacker virus manually:
Uninstall anything is related to Iminent
To do this, go to Start > Control Panel, and then double left click to open “Add or Remove Programs” if you have Windows XP or “Programs and Features” if you have Windows 8, 7 or Vista).
In the program list, find and Remove/Uninstall these applications:
...and other “Imenent” entry if exists.
After the typical uninstallation of Iminent from your Windows system you should check, in your preferred browser, so in Chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox, if there are some Iminent extension or add-in enabled or not deleted yet.
Chrome: open the browser menu, go on Tools and then click on Extensions;
Internet Explorer (9/10/11): click on the "gear" icon (Settings) and click on the Manage Add-ons option;
Firefox: open the Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A) and uninstall any Iminent's plugin.
Reset your Internet Explorer
Run Internet Explorer, click Tools:
Select Connections Tab and click to Lan Settings button.
Uncheck “Use a proxy server” box. Click OK to close Lan Settings and click OK to close Internet Explorer settings.
Now press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
Within the Windows Task Manager click on the Processes tab. Find the process by names: ..exe
iminent.exe
Iminent.Notifier.exe
iminenttoolbar[1].exe
uninstall.exe
[random characters].exe
securitycenter.exe
securityhelper.exe
Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button.
Malicious Files
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\*.lnk
C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysloc\sysloc.dll
C:\WINDOWS\ieocx.dll
C:\windows\ld08.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ChkDisk.dll
C:\DOCUME~1\NETWOR~1\protect.dll
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ONSIO.SYS
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\akpcsc.sys
C:\WINDOWS\system32\autochk.dll
Remove from AppData folder on Windows Vista/7/8
AppData is a hidden folder. Type %AppData% into Window’s Start Menu Search field and press Enter.
Remove the files below:
{39fc2065-c9c7-49cd-8942-44cc2dedc844}
{2267F93C-600C-420E-A229-3317AADD3951}
Delete associated registry entries:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings\{random}
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”
To sum up: From the above passage, you can realize search.iminent.com infection is turning to be a dangerous virus. The main threat of this hijacker virus is that it redirects your search results to unsafe websites contains false contents, which bring you into a scam. This virus makes your system be shown into threat and even use antivirus delete it, it will come back to users’ computer in a minute.
It cannot be completely removed by antivirus. It is also bundled with numerous virus and malware. Hijacker virus is designed to escape from the antivirus software which this virus creates many files and hides them under system folders. Therefore, it is important to remove search.iminent.com immediately before it makes you lose money and makes your computer crash. Manual removal is a hard work with great risk.