Nowadays, game websites are most possibly redirected to you as browser hijack virus since there are a large amount of gamers all over the world. Is it safe to use sites that have malware warnings about cheapstuff.com?

What is Cheapstuff.com? Is It A Legit Website or Scam?

Cheapstuff.com, unlike other redirected websites, is an entertainment website. Its is full of Ads on its site make it looks as it is a real domain. But it isn’t what you can see on the site. Actually, it is a nasty Adware. Once your computer has contracted with the virus, you may get a pups-up stating “Warning: Something is wrong here! cheapstuff.com contains content of a site which is known to distribute malware. If you access this site, your computer may be infected.” Cheapstuff.com is classified as an annoying redirect virus that always sneaks into the target computers by exploiting security vulnerabilities. First it has been bundled with Trojan virus or back door that control your search engine so that it can change your search results to its shopping advertising site. It is known to attack Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. Although it poses as a trustworthy and effective search net site with Yahoo logo, which supposedly provides reliable online results necessary to you. In reality, this domain may be associated with browser hijackers and other malware infections such as Google Redirect Virus and ZeroAccess rootkit that compromise your computer. It can hijack the targeted Internet browser, change your homepage and create malicious DNS entries.  If you want to search information by Google or Bing, you will find that the results will be rerouted to Cheapstuff.com browser hijacker or other dubious websites that show spam results only. Thus, you can’t go to the page you’re looking for straight away. The only goal of such virus is to use the artificial traffic to boost affiliate payments. It is really annoying to view these corrupted pages and ads again and again, at the cost of your time. If your machine is affected by such a dangerous virus , you’d better remove Cheapstuff.com virus timely without any hesitation to avoid further damages. 

To make your computer healthy,Live Chat with YooSecurity Expert Now, or you can follow the manual removal guide below to get your problem fixed. (For advanced computer users)

A photo of Cheapstuff.com  Redirect Virus

Key sentences to judge if your computer has been infected Cheapstuff Hijacker Virus

A. Your computer is something not normal as usual such as running very slowly.

B. When you open the Task Manager, you can find some strange progress which you never found before.

C. Every time you open your browser, you are redirected to Cheapstuff.com.

D. Your browser runs more and more slowly.

E. It always pops up some irritating advertisements even if you don’t want.

Cheapstuff.com Virus has hijacked my home page in google chrome, Firefox, internet explorer. How do i fix this?

Best Way to Remove Cheapstuff.com Hijacker Step by Step?

Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
If that didn’t work, try another way. Press the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type in taskmgr and press OK. This should start the Windows Task Manager

Step 2: Within the Windows Task Manager click on the Processes tab. Find the process by name. random.exe. Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button. This will kill the process.

Step 3: Delete malicious registry entries related to Cheapstuff.com Hijacker Virus.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random

Step 4?Remove malicious files of Cheapstuff.com Virus
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_64\Desktop.ini
C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\Desktop.ini
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ping.exe

Video of Key Steps on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:

Based on various situations and computer skills, you can choose the following solutions fit for you.

1. Follow the steps we provide to manually remove the virus.
2. If you failed to remove Cheapstuff.com Virus Infection with the method above, please consult YooSecurity certified professionals to remove it completely. Live chat with experts now

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on November 14, 2012 2:10 pm

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