Remove Wow.com - Get Rid of Wow.com Quickly and Effectively

Wow.com is a pesky browser hijacker which may make great chaos in the target system. In order to run freely in the infected PC, Wow.com will change some browser settings without computer users consents, for instance it may alter the homepage and modify the default search engine.

Screenshot of Wow.com:

After that, inline frames related to the domain of Wow.com will be downloaded automatically. Links within the Iframes will activate and redirect to the web contents on modified pages without computer users' permission. In a long term, Wow.com may also display advertisements and sponsors links in users' search results.

Negative effects of the Wow.com infection：

First of all, your homepage may be substituted by a completely different URL without any action on your end, which is quite impudent.

Moreover, Wow.com always shows up instead of the right sites that you expect to hit in legitimate search systems. That’s due to the illicit practices implemented by a Trojan horse that must have penetrated your computer.

Finally, Wow.com has been made to change the settings that determine one’s mode of web browsing. It’s always about money when it comes to cyber crime, because the more people visit Wow.com, the more cash the hackers may earn. And many cyber criminals chose to apply bad methods for achieving such ulterior motives.

Effective methods to get rid of Wow.com:

Method one: Manually remove Wow.com 
Method two: Automatically remove Wow.com easily with SpyHunter

Detail instruction (please perform all the steps in correct order)

Method one: Manually remove Wow.com

1. End all the running processes of Wow.com

Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.



Stop all the running processes about Wow.com



2. Remove malicious add-on and extensions from your web browsers.

Internet Explorer:
(1). Click Start, type: Manage browser add-ons 
(2). Hit Enter on your keyboard
(3). Click Manage add-on and disable all the suspicious add-on.



Firefox: (1). Click the Firefox menu and click Add-on



(2). Click Extensions, select the related browser add-on and click Disable.

Google Chrome:
(1). Click the Customize and Control menu button →Tools→ click Extensions



3.Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Wow.com.

Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.

 

4. Clean cookies

Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options →the General tab, Delete the Cookies button can be directly seen in IE6, IE7 is to click the Delete Browsing History button then tick Cookies and click Delete.

Firefox: Tools → Options → Privacy → Remove Individual Cookies → Delete corresponding cookies in the cookies showing box.

Opera: Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Cookies →Delete corresponding cookies in Management Cookies.

5. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about Wow.com

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).



(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

6. Delete malicious registry entries related to this virus.

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_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\random.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random

Method two: Automatically remove Wow.com easily with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step one: Click the Download icon to install SpyHunter in your PC.



Step two: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.



Step three: Choose Select all>Remove to get rid of all the threats on your PC.

 

Note: Wow.com should be removed as soon as possible, otherwise, you will not only can not surf the web freely, but also suffer from poor running speed, unstable internet connection and many other kinds of PC issues. If you haven’t sufficient expertise in manually dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries, it may lead to mistakes damaging your system permanently. If you are not very good at computer, you are recommended to download Spyhunter to automatically remove Wow.com from your PC.

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