Have you been redirected lately when surfing the Internet to a certain webpage – Snap.do (search.snap.do) and other related sites? Even your Internet browser’s homepage has been reset to this unwanted site? And no matter where you want to go, it just leads you to its homepage and other unwanted pages. As a matter of fact, this is known to be a Snap.do redirect virus.
Snap.do Browser Hijacker Description
Snap.do redirect virus, or search.snap.do is a specially hacked web site that will forcibly change your homepages and other default settings of your browser/browsers so that it can show up every time when you try to log on other sites. With a deceitful yet common appearance, Snap.do is pretending itself as a search engine which provides lots of online contents. But the fact is, all the searching results given by this Snap.do redirect virus are sponsored by hackers who create nasty viruses and steal money from PC users worldwide. Once there’s a search.snap.do page on your browser, try to avoid putting personal information online.
Once the infection is done, Snap.do redirect virus will secretly change several default settings of your computer so that it won’t be easily got rid of by antivirus software. When you try to go online via the infected browser/browsers, you will be redirected constantly. Also, there will be lots of pop up windows to annoy you. There are chances to be infected with Snap.do redirect virus. Visiting websites that contain porno or gambling contents, receiving spam emails or downloading fake nasty applications will all lead to this infection. YooSecurity Labs has incrementally been receiving reports and complaints from our customers on these toolbar hijacker in the past months, and since the toolbar are still the “effective way of online marketing” for some unethical companies, these toolbar will still be headaches of computer users for the years to come. Please be aware that whenever you install certain software, please read the terms and options the software vendor provides, and un-check the option to install certain toolbar you don’t need. As most of the toolbar like Snap.do are purposely made to get your privacy information and reap commercial interests from you. It is recommended you should stay away from unfamiliar sites and search engines online. This Snap.do browser redirect virus needs to be manually removed as soon as possible!
To save your computer, you can manually remove this Snap.do browser hijacker by the following manual steps (For Advanced Users Only). If you are not a computer Wiz, you are suggested to get help from YooSecurity Online Experts.
A Snap.do redirect virus screen-shot
A Step-by-step Manual Removal Guide
Since your antivirus programs cannot deal with this Snap.do redirect virus completely, you will need to manually delete it by following these steps given as below. And in case any mistakes might happen during the process, please spend some time on making a backup before getting started:
Step 1: Restart the infected computer to Safe mode with networking. When you press the power button or restart it from Start menu, repeatedly hit F8 key; then use arrow keys to select Safe mode with networking and press Enter.
Step 2: Open Windows Task Manager to end [Snap.do/ search.snap.do]. To do that, press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys at the same time or right click on bottom Task Bar.
Step 3: Go to Folder Options from Control Panel. Under View tab, select Show hidden files and folders and non-select Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK.
Step 4: Go to Registry Editor. First press Windows+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search.
Step 5: Delete all the following or those related to the following files.
%AppData%\[rnd].exe
%AppData%\result.db
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{rnd }
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{rnd.com }.exe”
Step 7: Reboot the computer again and let it get into normal mode this time.
Video on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry
Conclusion
Snap.do redirect virus is just another newly released hijacker to infect our computers. To be infected by a browser redirect virus, a wrong click online would do the job. This browser redirect virus can help other viruses to get inside your computer to enlarge the infections. For example, when you land on the fake searching results links, Trojans and other malicious programs can be allowed automatically to download into your computer. It will collect your personal information for remote hackers so that they can make benefits out of them. It can also turn your computer into running slower generally till it’s completely stuck. And if you don’t remove it out of your computer, it will continue to infect other browsers and PC functions. Therefore, it is really not a wise option to keep Snap.do redirect virus inside your computer for too long.
Notice: If you are still not sure on how to completely remove Snap.do redirect virus or don’t want to mess up your files and damage your whole machine, please contact YooSecurity Expert now to safely resolve your problem and keep you from headache.
Published by Karen Lawrence on September 24, 2012
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this is really bad Hijacker. got me crazy to remove this toolbar. why the hack the Snap.do guys are using this trick? totally f*cking retard.
I had the same fucking virus, and it was so shitty, because I got it from the most popular way to record your computer that has great reviews from all kinds of websites.
I got snap.do today (1st October 2012) with FreeFileSync which I downloaded from sourceforge.net. I have never had malware from sourceforge before! During the installation there was no option to unselect unwanted toolbars. Very sneaky!
What is worse, the method described above does not work, so I am assuming the bad guys changed the way snap.do hides itself in Windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Got the same thing via a free EPS viewer via C¦Net! During the install process it gives you no choice but to allow the snap.do install when installing the viewer.
Spending the morning now fighting to uninstall the damn thing. Poor job CNet.
I think I got this from downloading 001 Game Creator, which is a really neat RPG maker. Too bad it was poisoned with this…
Hello
My partner managed to download this, unknowingly, when he was downloading an album, legally. It has taken me 3 hours to delete everything I could find on his brand new PC and reinstall the correct settings. This is an insidious programme that surely should be banned. Do the people who produce this sort of rubbish have any idea of the misery they are causing around the world.
I have better things to do on a Sunday than sort out the mess they wreak on other peoples pc’s. Would love to get my hands on them……
Thank you for letting me rant and helping me sort out the problem.
I really need someone’s help! One of my parents downloaded this stupid toolbar. I’ve tried to follow the directions above to uninstall it, but they’re not working. I recently used this website to uninstall the Live Security Platinum virus, and even though I know next-to-nothing about computers except for basic functions, I was successful. I felt the directions were very clear and helpful. This isn’t the case with this set of directions. I have no idea what I am doing and I am terrified that I am going to mess something up. Any help will be much appreciated!
not sure what operating system this tutorial was designed around but almost nothing on my computer lines up with what was talked about in this tutorial
nothing in regedit is the same as listed here and the process they ask me to close in task manager wants to reboot my computer
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I am having serious trouble with my computer. I somehow got a hold of the Snap.do virus, and am having trouble getting rid of it. I can’t find it in the programs list, or the task manager, and I can’t delete it from my settings on Google Chrome
Agreed and thank you.
HI i recently found this appeared on my laptop however i can not find any such file on my laptop, I found this out as my homeage and search bars were set to the snap.do one however i have fixed that now but i am still looking for the actual snap.do file i have tried many different name searches on my uninstall program files but have not found it. can anyone help me
thanks
Cannot Kill Snap.do Virus/Malware
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I have awindows 8 computer and all the rest of my family have macs so they cant help me! i have no idea how to do the thing in the tutorial and i think that
snapdo is already having an affect on my new computer that i got a few months back. PLEASE HELP ME (i fear that a hacker is reading what i type as i type it)
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Good day! I could have sworn I’ve been to this site before but after reading through some of the post I realized it’s new to me.
Anyways, I’m definitely happy I found it and I’ll be
bookmarking and checking back frequently!