How to Remove Eastbour.mobi Redirects

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You must be sick and tired of being constantly redirected to the Eastbour.mobi website. Its URL appears all around the web. It seems that it is very popular. Well, it is not! You see it because a parasite forces it on you. Unfortunately, your browser is no longer safe. A nasty browser hijacker has managed to enter your OS and is now wreaking havoc. The Eastbour.mobi hijacker is a malicious application. Luckily, it is not a virus. The corruption spreads as far as your installed browsers. That is right, if you have more than one on board, be certain. They are all infected. The hijacker adds its extension to them and takes full control. The parasite injects various adverts on every website you load. For every advert you click on, it generates revenue. It also gets money for every sponsored web page you get automatically redirected to. And that is exactly what it does. It bombards its victims with advertisements. This is the tricky part. You are bombarded with targeted adverts. The Eastbour.mobi hijacker does not display random advertisements. No, it monitors your browsing related data and uses the information as a base for ad-targeting. Unfortunately, that means that anyone who uses the hijacker as an advertising platform can access the collected information. All sorts of crooks use the hijacker and its resources to reach potential victims. They prepare customized advertising campaigns and force them on you. But when you click on their ads, bad things happen. Do not risk your computer’s security and financial stability. Remove the Eastbour.mobi hijacker before it lures you into some online scheme!

How did I get infected with?

The Eastbour.mobi hijacker relies on trickery to reach its victims. It lurches behind software bundles, fake updates, and torrents. The key to its successful distribution is not the methods it uses, but its victims’ carelessness and naivety. Your caution, of course, can prevent it from succeeding. So, do not be negligent. You can keep your computer virus-free. Do your due diligence. Download your software from reputable sources only. When you start an installation process, pay close attention to the fine print. If you are offered and Advanced/Custom installation option, by all means, select it. Many software developers attach additional programs to the payload files of their apps. If you use the Standard installation, these extras will be installed automatically. Under the Advanced option, however, you can deselect them. Do it! Deselect all additional apps. You don’t need them. If you truly wanted or needed such software, you would have downloaded it by yourself. Furthermore, these third-party apps, more often than not, are malicious. Make sure you install safe apps. Read the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreements (EULA). If you don’t have the time to do so, use an online EULA analyzer. Abort the installation if you detect anything out of the ordinary!

Why is this dangerous?

The Eastbour.mobi hijacker is not safe. If it was, it wouldn’t have to use trickery to enter your OS. This parasite spies on you. It collected information about your every online step. Even the Incognito mode of your browser cannot hide you from the parasite. The collected information may not strike as too sensitive. Yet, a capable advertiser needs very little to successfully target you. Unfortunately, with the hijacker on board, you are more likely to be targeted by crooks than by legitimate businesses. The Eastbour.mobi hijacker has no security mechanism. It does not verify its adverts. Neither does it check the advertisers behind them. An unfortified advertisement may arise unwarranted expectations at best. At worst, it may redirect you to scam and potentially infected websites. Numerous crooks use this utility to lure potential victims into online schemes. With this parasite on board, you are more likely to end up on a bogus website than on a legitimate one. This pest cannot be beneficial to you. It ruins your browsing experience and jeopardizes your financial security. Do not put up with this situation. Remove this intruder the first chance you get! The sooner you clean your device, the better!

How to Remove Eastbour.mobi virus

The Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Eastbour.mobi startup location

STEP 3: Delete Eastbour.mobi traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi

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 Eastbour.mobi, 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 Eastbour.mobi 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 Eastbour.mobi 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.