If you find that your home page being constantly redirected to us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com and the performance of your computer has been severely degraded. This means that your computer has been infected with us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com. Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com is classified as a redirect virus which designed by cyber criminals to gain profit. Your computer may be infected with us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com easily when you download some unidentified software from third parties websites.When installed, us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com poses a challenge to the safety of your devices. us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com will change your homepage setting and modify your search results. It is obvious that it wants to take over your browser. Besides, us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com is able to install adware on your browsers, after that you will be harassed by a large number of pop-up advertisements all the time. These advertisements may not only be annoying, but also contain numerous Trojans or other viruses, which may cheat you into scams. In addition, us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com employs cookies to collect your online activities. At the same time, it sends data to remote hijackers which enable them to steal your confidential information such as users' names, passwords，banking details and so on.
Why you should remove us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com from your computer completely.
- us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com poses a challenge to the safety of your devices.
- us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com changes your homepage setting and modifies your search results.
- us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com is able to install adware on your browsers, harasses you with a large number of pop-up advertisements.
- These advertisements may not only be annoying, but also contain numerous Trojans or other viruses, which may cheat you into scams.
- us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com employs cookies to collect your online activities, and sends data to remote hijackers which enables them to steal your confidential information such as users’ name, passwords, banking details etc.
Why does antivirus software disable to remove Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com?
There is no doubt that you need to get rid of Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com immediately to prevent further damage from happening. Currently, us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com cannot be eliminated by your antivirus program because it was designed with advanced rootkit technology which helps its codes bypass firewall. That is to say, us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com is able to change its codes’ names and paths on the infected computer continually. Therefore, your antivirus software could detect and remove all the malicious codes. Thus, you have to use the effective manual removal to delete us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com from your computer permanently.
How to remove Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com manually?
1. Click on Start menu, click on Control Panel to show up Folder Options. Check the box of "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)", then click "OK".
2. To stop running processes of Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com, please press Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys to open Task Manager:
[random name].exe
3. Search and find the related files of Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com, delete them all:
%UserProfile%\[random].exe
%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\Connection Wizard\[random]
%Windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[random].exe
%System%\[random].exe
%Temp%\[random].bat
4. All registry keys of Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com should be found and deleted as below:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SD2014" = "%AppData%\<random>\<random>.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>.exe"
5. Find and clean up toolbars and plug-ins from browsers:
Mozilla Firefox:
- Click the small search magnify glass near the search box (not url/search field)
- Select “Manage Search Engines…”.
- Click and remove Us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com search engines from the list.
Attention Please!
That handling .dll files and registry entries need to be highly cautious as any mistake would lead to system crash. Thus, if you have no sufficient experience on computer, please feel free to start a live chat and get help from computer expert here.
Followed your steps. Found no files in Regedit that matched what you posted. Still plagued by Yahoo search as Default and not Google.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/ Everyone, please just do this. I had the hijack, and it's a backend DNS problem. Switch to the Google DNS and your worries will be gone!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sir.. FInally found something that worked.. After hours I follow JD instructions and no longer plagued by this browser redirect.. JUST DO IT.
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