How to Remove Gone8.com Hijacker? Manual Removal

Gone8.com virus is a newly phishing website that can be categorized as malicious browser hijacker, for it is reported that Gone8.com virus always hides in some fishy download icons, pornographic web pages and spam email attachments, etc. it can bypass the installed firewall and antivirus software to infiltrate the target computer. Gone8.com is an illegal browser hijacker infection that gets installed to Windows PC silently and performs lots of malicious activities. Once infected, it disables Windows firewall, blocks security websites and allows cyber criminals to access confidential information because it adds harmful files to the windows registry. It has ability to take the control of your entire web browsers via changing the web browser settings. The default homepage and your search provider are replaced by Gone8.com virus. When you type the key words on the fake search engine, it just offers you lots of commercial pop up ads. Besides, there will be some unknown and suspicious websites on the browser. When you accidentally click the search results or open new tabs, these annoying pop up site can distribute other risky computer viruses like Trojans, worms, spyware and malware. To be worse, Gone8.com virus keeps track of your online actions to gather your login account data like user names and passwords and credit card details. Hence, it is important to remove Gone8.com virus as quickly as possible once you find it on your computer.

What harms does Gone8.com virus do?

1. It disables executable applications and antivirus on your computer

2. It modifies the browser settings and attacks Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer

3. It replaces the homepage and search engine and offers many sponsored search results

4. It causes frequent web redirects to misleading websites and generates lots of annoying ads

5. It traces online activities and collects Personal user information especially the credit card data

6. It may introduce many other computer threats like Trojans, spyware, and malware

Step-by-step guides to uninstall Gone8.com virus

Solution A: Manual Removal

1: Stop Gone8.com virus running processes in Windows Task Manager first.

( 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.)

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, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

3: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all Gone8.com virus registry entries listed here:

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0′

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0′

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallPaper” = ’1′

4: All Gone8.com virus associated files listed below need to be removed:

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

5: Clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

Solution B: Automatic Removal

1: Download SpyHunter freely.

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

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

4:When the scan is completed, you can see that all the threats including Gone8.com are detected successfully. Then click Fix Threats button to clean your computer.

Friendly Reminded:
Manual removal of Gone8.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 don's have sufficient expertise on doing that, it is recommended to use the later removal suggestion so that SpyHunter can help you get rid of your problems directly and completely.