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Bigdater.me is a page that’s trouble. Its appearance is a clue. It means that your computer is no longer infection-free. It now harbors an adware menace. These types of infections are quite harmful. They use trickery to invade, and once inside, wreak utter havoc. The more you extend its stay, the bigger the mess it makes. That’s why, experts advise towards the infection’s prompt removal. The faster it leaves your system, the more issues you’ll avoid. Do yourself a favor, and heed experts’ advice. As soon as the threat reveals itself, act. Do your best to discover its exact hiding place, then delete it ASAP. You’ll spare yourself a whirlwind of headaches, troubles, and inconvenience. And, earn the gratitude of your future self.
How did I get infected with?
Adware tools sneak in undetected. And, that’s despite having to ask for your approval o their access. How do you suppose they manage that? How do they invade undetected, but with your approval? Well, they trick you. And, so does the one, hiding behind Bigdater.me. You see, the infections do need to seek your permission on their admission. The thing is, they don’t have to do it outright. So, instead of the straightforward approach, they resort to the covert one. More often than not, that includes the use of freeware and spam emails. Also, the tool can turn to corrupted links, sites or torrents. And, it can also pretend to be a fake system or program update. The infection has plenty of tricks up its sleeve. It’s up to you to look past them. Be thorough enough to catch the infection in the act of attempting to invade. Vigilance helps you to spot it, and keep it out. Distraction, naivety and haste do not. So, don’t provide them. Make sure to choose caution over the lack thereof. While attention allows you to keep an infection-free PC, carelessness doesn’t. It has the exact opposite outcome. Always take the time to be thorough. Read terms and conditions, and look for the fine print. Even a little extra attention goes a long way.
Why is this dangerous?
An adware infection is trouble. It’s meddlesome and damaging. You start to notice the effects of its stay, not long after it settles. The tool makes sure to force the Bigdater.me page on you, non-stop. You see it, at every turn. Type a search? You find it among the suggested results. Open a new tab? Bigdater.me is there to greet you. Every move you make, gets interrupted by the display of ‘Waiting for Bigdater.me.‘ Not to mention, all the ‘Ads by Bigdater.me,‘ that take over your screen, as well. The adware makes sure to interfere with your every online activity. The thing is, it doesn’t only meddle with your browsing. You see, the infection follows instruction to spy on everything, you do. It observes your online habits, and keeps a thorough record of all you do. That includes, what you click on, sites you frequent, data you input. Then, after the tool deems it has collected enough data via its espionage, it sends it. Yes, it exposes the stolen information. To whom? Well, to the cyber criminals that published it. In other words, unknown individuals with malicious intentions. Not people, who should get access to your personal and financial details. So, don’t let them have it! Keep your privacy private, and your system safe. Locate and delete the threat at once. The sooner you do, the better.
How to Remove Bigdater.me virus
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The Bigdater.me 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 Bigdater.me 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 Bigdater.me in the computer memory
STEP 2: Locate Bigdater.me startup location
STEP 3: Delete Bigdater.me traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer
STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus
STEP 1: Track down Bigdater.me 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 Bigdater.me 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 Bigdater.me 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 Bigdater.me traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer
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Open Google Chrome
- In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
- Remove the Bigdater.me by clicking on the little recycle bin
- Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind
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Open Mozilla Firefox
- Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
- Disable the unwanted Extension
- Go to Help
- Then Troubleshoot information
- Click on Reset Firefox
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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 Bigdater.me
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 Bigdater.me, 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 Bigdater.me 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 Bigdater.me 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.