How to Remove Dewasa.com Redirect Virus

Can’t Remove Dewasa.com hijacker virus? This page includes detailed Dewasa.com Removal instructions!

Dewasa.com is a highly suspicious domain. Its appearance means only one thing. You have a browser hijacker on board. This parasite has only one true goal – to generate revenue for its owners. To do so, it will ruin your browsing experience. It all starts with the appearance of the Dewasa.com website. This page will redirect you automatically to other, sponsored, websites. Prepare to see a lot of “great opportunities,” financial software, and “shocking news.” Do not be fooled by these questionable websites. You have no reason to trust anything brought to you by a cyber infection. On the contrary, you should fear them. If you get redirected to an infected website, a virus may get downloaded on your machine. You have no reason to keep the Dewasa.com hijacker on board. This parasite is a hole in your security wall. It has full control over your web browsers. The hijacker can install browser extensions, toolbars, apps, etc. On top of that, it also slows your computer down. Oh yes. Your computer performance is affected by the malicious program. The hijacker runs on your CPU and uses an enormous amount of RAM. The more ads it displays, the slower your machine will become. The hijacker will cause your browser to freeze and crash frequently. It can also cause some older machines to experience unexpected crashes. This, of course, leads to data loss and frustrations. Your best course of action is the removal of the virus.

How did I get infected with?

The Dewasa.com hijacker did not appear out of the blue. This parasite uses stealthy techniques to trick its victims into installing it. Yes, that is right. You did it. You infected your computer. Don’t be harsh on yourself. The hijacker deceived you. It has arrived well hidden in a software bundle. The bundling technique is quite popular nowadays. Developers attach extra programs to the installation files of many free apps. If you are not careful, you will install the extras without realizing it. Whenever you are installing a program, opt for advanced/custom setup wizard. It can be a button or tab. Only under the advanced option can you see all additional tools that are about to be installed. These third party apps, more often than not, are malicious. Stay on the safe site. Deny their installation. You can deselect all extras and still install the program you originally planned to set up. Besides, if you truly needed such tools, you would have downloaded them by yourself. This is your computer. You call the shots. Other malware distribution techniques involve spam messages, torrents, and fake software updates. A little extra caution can prevent these techniques from succeeding. Always do your due diligence.

Why is this dangerous?

The Dewasa.com hijacker is anything but safe. This parasite exposes you to numerous adverts. A malicious commercial can download a virus directly on your PC. Unfortunately, the hijacker doesn’t distinguish between legit and fake website either. Hackers often get an advantage of hijackers. They use hijackers to spread corrupted adverts and to redirect the users to infected websites. As dangerous as these issues are, the hijacker does worse things behind your back. The Dewasa.com utility monitors your online activities. It follows your every move. From what search inquiries you make to where you are logging into. Everything is recorded. The data is used for marketing purposes as well as sold to third parties. The hijacker can record sensitive information such as your banking account, IDs, user names, passwords, email addresses, etc. What will you do if such sensitive information becomes a possession of a hacker? Do not risk it. The longer this parasite remains active on board, the more information it collects. Remove it upon discovery. You have nothing to lose. Only to gain!

How to Remove Dewasa.com virus

The Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Dewasa.com startup location

STEP 3: Delete Dewasa.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com

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 Dewasa.com, 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 Dewasa.com 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 Dewasa.com 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.