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Home › Browser Hijacking › Tutorials - HowTo › How to remove webcry.com hijacker

How to remove webcry.com hijacker

Myantispyware team December 8, 2007     3 Comments    

Symptom: When you do any kind of search, the search results come up like normal, however when you click on a link under the results the page goes blank and you keep getting re-directed to webcry.com

Download HijackThis and save the file to your desktop. Double click on the file for install.
Download CCleaner. Double click on the file for install.
Download SmitfraudFix (by S!Ri) Extract the content (a folder named SmitfraudFix) to your desktop.

Reboot your computer in Safe Mode by doing the following:

1. Restart your computer
2. After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press F8.
3. Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear
4. Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.

Start HijackThis. Click “Do a system scan only.” and put a checkmark next to the following items:

O2 – BHO: (no name) – {4A4CB994-9A38-DF0F-2760-0708BFE8F63A} – C:\Program Files\****\****.dll
O2 – BHO: (no name) – {52EA2AED-161F-45A5-EBAC-0293CA8C771C} – C:\Program Files\****\****.dll
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [*****] regsvr32 /u “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\*****.dll”

Note: Where **** is a random chars, as ‘utgboudx’,’mgfaejew’

Now close all browser and other windows except for HijackThis, and click “Fix Checked” to have HijackThis fix the entries you checked.

Open the SmitfraudFix folder and double-click smitfraudfix.cmd.

Press the number 2 on your keyboard and the press the enter key to choose the option Clean (safe mode recommended).
You will be prompted : “Registry cleaning – Do you want to clean the registry ?“; answer “Yes” by typing Y and press “Enter” in order to remove the Desktop background and clean registry keys associated with the infection.
The tool will now check if wininet.dll is infected. You may be prompted to replace the infected file (if found); answer “Yes” by typing Y and press “Enter”.
The tool may need to restart your computer to finish the cleaning process; if it doesn’t, please restart it into Normal Windows.

Run CCleaner.

Click Analyze button. After scan your system, click Run Cleaner.

Reboot your PC.

If you are still having problems with spyware after completing these instructions, it`s possible, then please follow the steps: Spyware removal – Read this before posting

Browser Hijacking Tutorials - HowTo

Author: Myantispyware team

Myantispyware is an information security website created in 2004. Our content is written in collaboration with Cyber Security specialists, IT experts, under the direction of Patrik Holder and Valeri Tchmych, founders of Myantispyware.com.

3 Comments

  1. Harry Stinson
    ― January 27, 2008 - 6:56 pm  Reply

    Thank You!!
    This thing was driving me nuts!!
    Im not a geek but I had no trouble if you can read and follow directions you can do it!!

  2. Julie
    ― February 6, 2008 - 10:27 pm  Reply

    Thank you sooo very much!! I am so glad that annoying hijacker

  3. conrad
    ― February 9, 2008 - 10:20 am  Reply

    thank you very much, was about to use a hammer on this damn thing…….

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