Remove/ Uninstall Payload.sidekick.net, Learn How to Delete Payload.sidekick.net

Payload.sidekick.net is a browser hijacker that is created to optimize your Internet searches and increase your traffic to third-party web sites that offer different products or services. Some browser hijackers can only affect one kind of web browsers, but Payload.sidekick.net virus can affect all of them. In most cases, users get this redirect virus from various unverified web sites that offer free software programs. It will force you to use its fake search engine instead of legit search website and your search result will be recorded. Generally, once Payload.sidekick.net virus successfully sneaks into the affected PC, it will hinder you from visiting websites you want. As a browser hijacker, it pretends to be a usual website that looks like as legal as other legitimate website so you may not aware of its large amount of adware and the fact that it may contains malicious free links behind. Running in the background, Payload.sidekick.net virus can secretly collect your personal information such as online banking details, IP address, websites visited and etc. The aim of browser hijacker is to take you to different sites, and it shows search results among which you can find many sponsored links. These links will lead you to third-party sites with suspicious reputation and intentions. In order to remove Payload.sidekick.net completely from your PC, it is recommended that you follow the steps of a removal guide suitable to your browser.

Harmful Properties of Payload.sidekick.net

1. Unfamiliar and questionable advertisements and fake alerts keep popping up on your screen.
2. Your PC system performance is too poor and your system works extremely slowly like a snail.
3. Once compromised, your PC makes for frequent freezing and system crash.
4. Unwanted malicious applications run in your PC.
5. All your search results specified by Google Chrome are redirected to unwanted and irritating ones.

Effective Way to Remove Payload.sidekick.net

A: Manual Removal 

Step One: Stop Payload.sidekick.net 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.)

 

Step Two: 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.

 

Step Three: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all Payload.sidekick.net registry entries listed here: (Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type "regedit" in Run box to search)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{647BB013-E900-473E-BC10-99CF3AC365AD}

Step Four: All Payload.sidekick.net associated files listed below need to be removed:

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\[random]
%AppData%\Local\[random]
%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\

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


B: Automatic Removal 

Step One: Download SpyHunter here.

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 Payload.sidekick.net are detected successfully. Then click Fix Threats button to clean your computer.

Friendly Reminded:
Manual removal of Payload.sidekick.net 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 removal suggestion so that SpyHunter can help you get rid of your problems directly and completely.