How to Remove Bookness Chrome Virus

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To begin with, the Bookness Chrome Virus is irritating. It is also obnoxious, intrusive and very dangerous. This program has been classified as a browser hijacker. Have you had to deal with hijackers so far? Check out today’s article to learn all you need to know about this type of virus. Remember that procrastinating can’t help you in any way. What you have to do is take action as soon as you encounter the parasite’s presence on board. The thing with hijackers is, they become more and more problematic as time passes. Logically, the more time this pest spends on your PC, the more harmful it becomes. Do not allow one already bad situation to get even worse. Tackle the hijacker instead. The Bookness Chrome Virus overall follows the classic browser pattern. That includes numerous unauthorized changes in your browser settings and various other tricks. You see, the hijacker works in silence. It needs neither your consent nor your permission to make modifications. Unfortunately, that means you’re no longer in charge of your very own browsers. And that is just the beginning. The virus creates a real mess on your computer. It actually replaces your search engine and browser homepage with its own domain. As a result, you’re unable to get rid of the parasite. It forces you to put up with a huge pile of sponsored, unreliable web links. That is how hijackers work. They inject your once trusty browsers with sponsored links in order to help hackers gain profit. It goes without saying that crooks’ illegitimate revenue would come at your expense so watch out. By keeping the Bookness Chrome Virus on your device, you become a sponsor of hackers’ business. You also expose your computer to malware because the web links could lead you straight to viruses. Remember, this is an infection. Its very last concern is to enhance your online browsing experience. By using the pay-per-click mechanism, cyber criminals make effortless money. In the meanwhile, they cause you a constant headache and take over your online activities. You cannot even find what you search for because the hijacker redirects you. The devious Bookness Chrome Virus completely hijacks your favorite browsers. In addition, it installs a browser extension so you might come across random pop-ups too. In this scenario, you have to stay away from all deceptive commercials and product deals or offers. Those are sponsored as well.

How did I get infected with?

The most popular malware distribution methods have nothing to do with your authorization. After all, infections are super sneaky. Hijackers don’t usually rely on your active cooperation either. Then how did this virus manage to land on your device? It took advantage of your haste while surfing the Web. For instance, you might have recently downloaded some program bundles off of the Internet. This hides serious threats to your safety. We would recommend that you watch out for parasites in advance. Opting for the Custom option in the Setup Wizard, for example, is always a good idea. It lets you keep an eye on every single program that gets downloaded. Hackers could be very creative people when it comes to causing PC users trouble. If there is a “bonus” virus attached to a seemingly safe bundle, you end up installing the virus too. That is why you should pay close attention to what you actually agree to install. You might spot some highly undesirable piece of malware in the bundle. Make sure you deselect it on time. Otherwise, you’ll have to waste a lot more time trying to delete the infection. Save yourself the hassle and protect your security. Avoid installing unverified programs, especially when they come bundled.

Why is this dangerous?

The parasite redirects you to unknown websites which may be utterly irrelevant to your queries. As you could imagine, all that matters here is the profit crooks attempt to gain. Hackers are more than willing to turn your online experience upside down if this would be beneficial for them. However, you do not have to participate in their malicious schemes. You do not have to support hackers nor should you. Every single cent they gain will be used to develop more infections and, ultimately, harass more people. The Bookness Chrome Virus successfully modifies your browsers. As mentioned already, it adds an extension to them and injects them with unreliable links/pop-ups. You end up unable to even use your machine because the PC speed is slowed down too. To top it all, the hijacker could spy on some sensitive details and cause you privacy issues. This malicious program’s tricks could result in serious damage. To delete the virus manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Bookness virus

The Bookness infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Bookness infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

WARNING! Stopping the wrong file or deleting the wrong registry key may damage your system irreversibly.
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STEP 1: Track down Bookness related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Bookness startup location

STEP 3: Delete Bookness traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Bookness related processes in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Bookness startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Bookness virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Bookness traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Bookness by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Bookness

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Bookness, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Bookness argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Bookness Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your whole system or network and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.