The Effective Guide to Remove Web.tofushopnews.com - Manual Removal Support

Web.tofushopnews.com is a risky browser hijacker that changes the homepage and default search engine of all your browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox without permission and approval. The web.tofushopnews.com software is usually distributed through malicious websites and comes with free programs that users download from the Internet. As a stubborn redirect virus, it was widely discussed for its fully commercial pop up, annoying redirects and homepage hijacking to web.tofushopnews.com domain. Once infected, Web.tofushopnews.com may automatically install more infections like Trojan, worms, key loggers and other spywares. The compromised computer may experience slow internet running, freezing browsers, blue screen of death, new desktop background and unfamiliar free software shortcut. However, the protection program may detect nothing and this web.tofushopnews.com virus still redirect your homepage and displays unwanted pop-up ads. What’s more, in spite of web.tofushopnews.com seems just a normal website but do not fall for its interface, it can drop cookies and use other techniques to track your activities, collects your financial information and may invite further viruses and spywares from Internet. You must uninstall Web.tofushopnews.com virus and remove its corrupt configurations from your browser.

Web.tofushopnews.com can be displayed by the following features

a. Unfamiliar and questionable advertisements and fake alerts keep popping up on your screen.
b. Your PC system performance is too poor and your system works extremely slowly like a snail.
c. Once compromised, your PC makes for frequent freezing and system crash.
d. Unwanted malicious applications run in your PC.

Most effective way to remove Web.tofushopnews.com safely

A: Manual Removal

Step One: 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 Web.tofushopnews.com.

Step Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: Show all hidden files

Open Control Panel from 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.

Step Four: Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallStatIE.

Step Five: Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:

Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\system]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\wow6432node\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\windows]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\MsMpSvc]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\WudfSvc]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\security center\Monitoring\SophosAntiVirus]

B: Automatic Removal

Step One: Download SpyHunter freely by clicking on the below button.

Step Two: Double click SpyHunter-Installer.exe to install SpyHunter and finish the installation step by step.

Step Three: After the installation is complete, open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now! to start scan your computer.

Step Four: When the scan is completed, you can see that all the threats including Web.tofushopnews.com are detected successfully. Then click Fix Threats button to clean your computer.

Friendly Reminded:
Manual removal of Web.tofushopnews.com is known as the most effective way. Anyway, it refers to key parts of computer system, and is recommended only for advanced users. If you have not sufficient expertise on doing that, it is recommended to use the later one so that SpyHunter can help you get rid of your problems directly and completely.