How to Remove Your Radio Center Hijacker

Can’t Remove Your Radio Center hijacker virus? This page includes detailed Your Radio Center Removal instructions!

Did the Your Radio Center website replace your preferable homepage? No, this change is not forced on you by your web browser. You have a parasite on board. Somewhere on your OS, a browser hijacker is lurking. The parasite has managed to infect your poor web browser and is now causing havoc. The Your Radio Center hijacker is a typical member of its nasty family. It uses aggressive and misleading marketing strategies to turn you from a visitor into a customer. The parasite adds its malicious extension to your browser and alters its settings. It is not just your homepage that the hijacker changed. The parasite replaced your default search engine too. If you try to restore your preferences, you will fail. The hijacker will prevent you from doing so. The intruder has full control of your web browser. It needs you to use its customized search engine. This way, the hijacker can inject fake entries among the search results you are provided with. That is right. The Your Radio Center hijacker injects sponsored links among the search results you get. These links are adverts, yet, they are not marked as such. That is a huge problem. It not only prevents you from making an informed choice, the hijacker exposes you to risks. The parasite does not verify the ads. Neither does it check the advertisers behind them. Dodge websites pay hefty sums for their links to be displayed on the top. Various crooks use the hijacker to redirect web traffic to online support scams. The Your Radio Center parasite turns you into a target! Do not put up with it! Remove the intruder ASAP!

How did I get infected with?

The Your Radio Center hijacker uses a lot of trickery to lure you into installing it. That is right. You approved this pest on board. Without your help, it would have never managed to infect your machine. Confused? Let’s explain. The Your Radio Center hijacker is not an ingenious virus. It is a simple computer program. Like any other app, it needs you to approve its installation. No permission, no admission. There is a catch, of course. No one said that the hijacker must ask openly. The parasite hides behind torrents, software bundles, and fake updates. One second of carelessness is all it needs to get on board. Do not make its job easier! Be always alert. Especially when you install new software. Many developers attach extra apps to the payload files of their programs. If you use the Standard installation option, these extras will be installed without your explicit permission. Select the Advanced method instead. Under the Advanced/Custom option, you will be presented with a list of all additional programs that are about to be installed alongside the app you downloaded. Deselect all suspicious apps. Bear in mind that you can deselect all extras and still install the program you originally planned to set up. Make sure you know what you are giving your permission to. Read the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreement (EULA). If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately.

Why is this dangerous?

The Your Radio Center hijacker is a pain in the neck that shouldn’t be underestimated. The more you tolerate it, the worse your situation becomes. The parasite gets more aggressive with each passing day. You will notice that previously ad-free websites are now heavy on banners, in-texts, and hyperlinks. Your web browsing is not what it used to be. Every time you as much as touch your browser, numerous pop-ups cover your screen. Your poor browser can barely keep up with the aggressive marketing. It crashes and freezes frequently. The hijacker is responsible for this issues. Yet, you should not focus on them. Something much darker is going on behind your back. The Your Radio Center hijacker does not force random ads on you. No! It monitors your browsing related data and uses the collects information as a base for better ad-targeting. The problem is that sensitive information may get recordists too. Another problem is that the hijacker sells access to the information. Anyone willing to pay can use the hijacker and its resources to target you. The crooks prepare custom ad campaigns. They show you what you want to see, but when you click on their adverts, you end up on bogus websites. Do not risk falling victim of an online scam. Protect your privacy. Remove the nasty browser hijacker the first chance you get!

How to Remove Your Radio Center virus

The Your Radio Center 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 Your Radio Center 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.

STEP 1: Track down Your Radio Center related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Your Radio Center startup location

STEP 3: Delete Your Radio Center traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Your Radio Center 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 Your Radio Center 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 Your Radio Center 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 Your Radio Center traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Your Radio Center 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 Your Radio Center

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 Your Radio Center, 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 Your Radio Center 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 Your Radio Center 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.