Remove LinkeyProject.com Effectively

Basic information about LinkeyProject.com

Name : LinkeyProject.com
URL: http://www.linkeyproject.com/
Type: browser hijacker
Risk Level: Harmful
Operating Environment: Windows platform
Targeted Browsers：Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.
Number of Corruption: More than 50 files at a time
Geographical distribution: Globally Distributed
The screenshot of www.linkeyproject.com

How harmful www.linkeyproject.com redirect virus is?

LinkeyProject.com is a new released PC virus which is classified as browser hijacker by computer experts. It is designed masterly by the cyber criminal to increase internet traffic of certain websites and steal the confidential information on the infected PC.

After getting installed into the target PC, LinkeyProject.com will change the homepage and default search engines on the infected PC without users’ permission. Once these settings have been made, it is almost impossible for users to reset them back.

And when you want to search something, the results that displayed by LinkeyProject.com redirect virus may be different from those displayed by formal search engines such as the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. And LinkeyProject.com browser hijacker always against users’ will to redirect them to some advertisements websites or the web pages that contain lot of pornographic contents and pictures.

At the same time, LinkeyProject.com brings into other kinds of computer viruses during its installation process. Or it chisels up a backdoor in the infected PC which causes the system vulnerability and allows other PC infection invade into this compromised PC more easily.

With the passage of time, users may notice that their PC is running more and more slowly and sometimes windows get freeze when they are operating the infected PC.

Method one:Manually remove www.linkeyproject.com browser hijacker

1.Open Windows Task Manager to end processes related to the LinkeyProject.com virus. To do that, press Ctrl + Shift + ESC together or Ctrl + Alt + Delete together to unfold Window Task Manager; click Processes tab on top and scroll down the list to find out all the running processes of this virus and disable all of them.

2. Delete malicious registry entries related to this redirect.
Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter “Enabled” = “0?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:33921?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = “1?

3.Remove malicious files of this redirect infection.

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AppData%Local[random].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\

4.Remove toolbars, plugins, extensions, add-ons
Internet Explorer users:
Go to TOOLS and then click MANAGE ADD-ON, From there, select Extensions, Toolbars and remove the LinkeyProject.com if found. Make sure Google or other formal browsers are set as default search Provider.

Google Chrome Users:
Click SETTINGS icon and select SETTINGS, then open Extensions, toolbar, search provider options, remove the LinkeyProject.com if listed there. Make sure Google or other formal browsers are set as default search Provider.

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove LinkeyProject.com with Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and uninstall LinkeyProject.com

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of LinkeyProject.com, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing LinkeyProject.com and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove LinkeyProject.com automatically for you.