Are you looking for a complete solution to remove Sys.cougarsupport.net browser hijacker virus from your computer? Can’t bear the situation that all of your browsers are always being redirected to unwanted sites? Tried all your antivirus software but still can’t get rid of this nasty virus? Read this post to have this threat resolved as soon as possible.

What is Sys.cougarsupport.net Virus

Sys.cougarsupport.net virus is a dangerous web browser hijacker threat that can take control of the search engines and within your computer. This nasty virus can sneak into your computer secretly when you are visiting malicious sites and clicking unknown links from Internet. You may consider Sys.cougarsupport.net is legitimate company site as well as other normal sites when the truth is actually to the opposite. Once you got this malware within your system, every time you search anything on it you will probably be forced to unwanted sites that are aiming to promote their fake anti-virus and rob your money by locking your computer. Moreover, your computer will be much more vulnerable after the infection which will definitely lead to further damages produced by other threats. The computer will run slower and the network speed will be slower as well sometimes the connection will even be disabled. Thus please do keep alert if you meet such kind of thing and remove Sys.cougarsupport.net before it damages your computer further.

Symptons of Sys.cougarsupport.net virus infection

A. The virus will prevent all your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs from starting and updating.
B. You are getting continuous pop-ups within your system and from your browser.
C. The virus keeps redirecting your search results and always warming that you are browsing unsafely need to install the security program from its site.
D. Your browser homepage setting and desktop settings are changed without your authorization.
E. Your system is running pretty slower than ever before because the virus is taking up the consumption of your system resource significantly..
F. You will find out the virus also infects and corrupts your registry, leaving your computer completely vulnerable.

If you need any help, Live Chat with YooSecurity Expert Now , or you can follow our step-by-step virus removal instruction below to clean the virus yourself. (For advanced computer users)

A Screenshot of Sys.cougarsupport.net virus

Best Way to Remove Sys.cougarsupport.net virus Step by Step:

Firstly, please restart your computer and get in Safe Mode with Networking:

Please follow these steps to get rid of Sys.cougarsupport.net virus manually:
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 task-mgr 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 related to Sys.cougarsupport.net virus. 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.

Video Show You on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:

Step3: Remove malicious files of Sys.cougarsupport.net virus.

C:\windows\system32\services.exe
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..s-servicecontroller_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2b54b20ee6fa07b1\services.exe
C:\Windows\Installer\{bbee3ba2-89af-930c-bb78-1fb4e17db3cc}

Step4: Delete malicious registry entries of Sys.cougarsupport.net virus.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer
“EnableShellExecuteHooks”= 1 (0x1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Note: This complete virus cleaning guide is for computer users who are skillful and experienced in PC operations only. If you don’t have enough experience in dealing with PC issues, it is not recommended to try this yourself as any mistake may lead to fatal damages to your system. In this case, please contact YooSecurity online tech support for help.

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on June 3, 2013 8:25 am

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