How Can I Remove Planet-surf.com Redirect Virus?

How to get rid of Planet-surf.com pop-up ads? I keep getting annoying popups these days on my browser even on the regular websites I often log on. Where do these popups come from? I can't search online efficiently with these constant blocks. I tried to reset browser but it didn't work. Is there any threat on my computer? Can I block these unwanted popups by anti-malware programs? Please help me restore my browser.

What is Planet-surf.com Redirect Virus

Planet-surf.com is considered as the modification of the existing browser default settings including search engine and homepage. To bypass the detection of your antivirus software and yours, it gets on the browser as an extension or an add-on to get itself attached onto the target browser. It can infect browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once it is installed, the modification of your default browser settings like search engine and homepage is performed without asking you. As a result, you have to experience that your default homepage is always redirected to Planet-surf.com. Besides, some of your search results may be replaced by some irrelevant ones.

In general, Planet-surf.com can attack all the browsers on the infected PC. PC users may ignore the problem on one browsers because the other one can work normally, but all the browser will be finally infected when the time goes by. What is worse, this Planet-surf.com redirect will have the ability to download other virus infections like Trojan horse, Worm and even the malware by its backdoor process. Internet speed can be effected as well. Thus, PC users need to remove this browser hijack redirect as soon as possible to keep the infected PC safe.

How Your Computer Gets Infected With This Fake Software?

It is promoted mostly through the use of trojans, infected websites, spoofed emails, misleading links on social networking sites and other malicious software. This rogue program enters the computer without user's permission or knowledge. In order to keep itself undetected, it disables all legit antimalware software found on your computer. Once installed, it will be configured to start automatically when you restart your computer. Once active it launches fake computer scans and displays numerous fake warning messages that state your PC is infected. As this program is a scam, do not be scared into purchasing the program when you see the fake alerts.

(1)Instructions on Removing Planet-surf.com Search Redirect Effectively:

1. Open the Windows Task Manager You can press Ctrl + Shift + ESC together or Ctrl + Alt + Delete together.

If it does not work, Click the Start button, click the run option, type taskmgr and press OK. The Windows Task Manager should open.

2. In the Windows Task Manager, find out the process of THE Planet-surf.com Redirect by name random.exe. Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button. This will end the process.

3. Search for malicious registry entries related to this Planet-surf.com Search redirect virus and wipe them out entirely.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run |Regedit32

4. Remove harmful files of this redirect virus infection.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\giner.exe

(2)Malicious Browser Hijacker Manual Removal Guides:

Considering this malware can't be fixed by any security tools, uses can use the manual guide below to fix this issue without any risk.

1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.

Since tricky hijacker 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" to delete all cookies from the list.

Internet Explorer: Open Internet explorer window Click the "Tools" button Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history" Tick the "cookies" box, then click "delete"

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"

2. Remove all add-ons and extensions

Google Chrome: Wrench Icon > Tools > Extensions Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A) Internet Explorer: Tools > Manage Add-ons

Conclusion:

Planet-surf.com pop-up adware takes advantage of pop-up ads to trick online users into being infected. Usually the Planet-surf.com pop-up adware can be bundled with freeware, fishing site, and spam emails to propagate. For example, the spam emails users have received was disguised as a notification distributed from a legitimate client server. Actually, the email had an attached malicious file, which contained a malicious Planet-surf.com file. Just need users follow those body messages, the Planet-surf.com malware can seize the chance to infiltrate on the targeted computers. According to our analysis, the Planet-surf.com is able to steal password stored on the Internet browsers. It is a self-extracting file that also is able to gather confidential data from the infectious machines. Therefore, the Planet-surf.com malware should be removed from the infectious computer in case of further damage.