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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

[Efficient Removal Help] How to Get Rid of WOW.com Browser Hijacker?

What Is Wow.com?


WOW.com is a potentially unwanted website that claims to be enhanced by Google. It looks like thousands of other websites. It advertises that it can provide quick links to popular sites such as hotmail, eBey, Amazon and Facebook. However, it is able to install itself in almost all kinds of browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Once it gets into your computer, it has the ability to modify your browser settings and add its extensions and toolbars in your browser. As a result, your browser default home page is replaced by WOW.com and your browser default search engine is changed as well. Thus it will be capable to track your online activities, analyze your online

habits and then generate various ads whether you want them or not. Those advertisements are varied from fitness, health, discounts and sales promotions. Though that may sound convenient and helping you save money, some of the ads may contain malicious software and viruses. Any clicking on them may redirect you to some strange and intrusive websites which you have never intended to visit or download more malware, worms and other infections into your computer. In this situation, your computer will heavily suffer from being attacked. If further damages are caused to your system, your computer will crash down.


How to Delete WOW.com?


A. Manual Removal Help

Step 1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button > type "Run" to select the option > type "taskmgr" and press OK > end WOW.com associated running process.

Step 2. Click Start button> Control Panel > Uninstall a program > uninstall WOW.com associated program.
Step 3.  Reset your browsers to clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

Internet Explorer

1) Open Internet Explorer, click the Gear icon or Tools > Internet options
2) Go to the Advanced tab, click the Reset button > Reset Internet Explorer settings > Delete personal settings > click on Reset option. 
3) Click Close and OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome

1) Click the Chrome menu button, select Tools > Extensions, find unknown extension and remove them by clicking Recycle bin
2) Click Settings > Show Advanced settings > Reset browser settings and click Reset.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Open Mozilla Firefox, go to the Help section > Troubleshooting Information
2) Select Reset Firefox and click Finish.



B. Automatic Removal Help


Step 1. Download SpyHunter, then double click on it to install it.
Step 2. Tick mark on Quick Scan then click on Scan Computer Now!

Step 3. When the scan done, click on Fix Threats.

Note: For the people who are not familiar with computer knowledge, the automatic removal is much more easier than the manual one. It is recommended to use SpyHunter to help you get rid of this WOW.com completely and permanently. 

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