How to Remove Orchiatol (Adware.Orchiatol.com)

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Orchiatol is yet another adware. It is an aggressive parasite which corrupts your web browsers. Firefox, Opera, Edge, Chrome; there is no immune program. The adware alters their settings and turns them into ad-displaying slaves. This invader follows programming to flood you with adverts. It injects in-text and banner ads on every website you visit. It also displays push-up notifications and opens pop-ups. The adware knows no boundaries. It even pauses your videos for long commercial breaks. The parasite gets paid when you click on its content, so it doesn’t limit its interference. Quite the contrary: the adware gets more and more aggressive with each passing day. If it deems needed, it even starts browser redirection. Orchiatol tends to get out of control. Its intrusive advertising burdens your browser and causes issues. The adware throws its victims into a whirlwind of problems. You face system underperformance, Internet connection instabilities, and browser crashes. Do not put up with this situation. Don’t tolerate the adware. The sneaky Orchiatol pest has no place on your computer. Do yourself a big favor and remove this invader ASAP! The sooner you delete this adware, the better!

How did I get infected with?

Torrents, spam emails, corrupted links, bundles, fake updates; there are numerous ways for Orchiatol to reach your device. These distribution strategies spread the adware around the Web, but that’s all they do. They cannot install the parasite. Only you can do that. The adware is a simple application. To get installed, it needs your, the user’s, approval. No permission, no admission. If you, however, don’t pay attention to the fine print, you are very likely to install it unintentionally. The adware preys on your naivety. It lurks in the shadows and waits for you to make a mistake. The Internet is a dangerous place. You can never know where a parasite might strike from. No anti-virus app can protect you if you act carelessly. Only your caution is powerful enough to keep your system secure and virus-free. Don’t ever let your guard down! Don’t visit shady websites. Download software from reputable sources only. And forget about the “Next-Next-Finnish” installation strategy. Always take the time to do your due diligence. When available, use the advanced/custom setup option. More often than not, the apps we download off the web come bundled with extras. The bonuses, as you can imagine, are often parasites like Orchiatol. The advanced setup process allows you to un-check all unwanted extras. Make sure you know what you install. Read the terms and conditions before you agree to them. If you notice anything suspicious, abort the installation immediately!

Why is this dangerous?

Orchiatol is intrusive and very menacing. This invader doesn’t miss a chance to interfere with your activities. Whether you browse your favorite website or watch a video, the adware is always there to annoy you. It follows you around the Web and throws adverts at you. Don’t discard the parasite as a mere annoyance, though. Orchiatol is quite dangerous. This parasite follows instructions to spy on you. It studies your browsing-related data and uses the collected information against you. The nasty adware knows your every online step. Which websites you visit, what links you follow, what videos you watch. Even the Incognito mode of your browser cannot hide you. The adware knows your preferences, wants, and needs. And when it deems it has enough data, it sends that information to a remote server. Anyone willing to pay can access the data there. Numerous crooks are more than happy to open their wallets. They use Orchiatol and its resources to target potential victims. The crooks create customized ads and push them to you through the adware. They flood you with misleading adverts. The crooks show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. Do not risk falling into online traps. Protect yourself and your privacy. Act against the invader. Remove the nasty adware the first chance you get!

How to Remove Orchiatol virus

The Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Orchiatol startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol

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 Orchiatol, 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 Orchiatol 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 Orchiatol Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system 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.