Counterflix “Virus” Removal

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Counterflix is the nth stubborn adware-type infection. Instead of providing attractive online deals, it brings to you sponsored pop-ups. There are plenty of reasons why you should stay away from such commercials. For starters, the Counterflix ads cover your PC screen regardless of your permission (or the lack of it). Now that you’re stuck with a parasite, your consent is no longer relevant. Hackers are shameless enough to take control over your entire browsing experience. They actually take advantage of your browsers to gain dubious profit. That leads us to reason number 2 – clicking the Counterflix  ads helps crooks make money. Are you willing to become a sponsor of greedy cyber criminals? Are you going to support their business? If the answer to these questions is no, make sure you avoid the commercials. The very last thing you need right now is to reward hackers for messing with your default browser settings. Instead, stay away from their pesky advertisements. In addition, you should know how unreliable sponsored pop-ups are. Those do appear to be legitimate and safe. However, the Counterflix pop-up ads could be leading you straight to malware. Unless you put your safety first and avoid the commercials, you may worsen your cyber situation. There are plenty of corrupted ads currently on your PC screen. Of course, there might also be some real ones. As you could imagine, though, the only way to find out for sure which is which, is by clicking. Do not allow hackers to trick you into opening any of these deceptive pop-ups. As mentioned, you might easily download more infections in the blink of an eye. The adware causes quite a mess on your device. It modifies your browser settings and installs a plugin. Thanks to this unwanted add-on, your browsers get completely out of hand. Not only do they generate sponsored ads all the time but they also crash and freeze. Also, you get redirected to unknown, immensely unsafe websites. That means surfing the Internet becomes a problematic task, let alone finding what you search for. The sooner you take action and delete the parasite, the better. Counterflix might install additional toolbars thus causing even more damage. The adware-type nuisance collects some browsing-related information. For instance, browsing history, search queries, passwords/usernames, email addresses. Consider your private life online no longer private. Don’t put up with hackers’ shenanigans and get rid of their virus on the spot. You certainly won’t regret it.

How did I get infected with?

Adware rarely asks for your authorization. It doesn’t have to because there are many secretive infiltration methods. Number one technique is called freeware/shareware bundling. Yes, it is just as simple as it sounds. Every single time you download bundled programs off of the Internet, you’re taking a risk. Unless you go through the software beforehand, you could accidentally install malware. We’d recommend that you opt for the Custom or Advanced option in the Setup Wizard, This will allow you to spot any potential “bonus” virus that is trying to land on board. Remember, it is your job and only yours to prevent parasite installation. In order to protect your safety, you have to be cautious. Save yourself the hassle that is removing malware. Be careful. Always take your time to make sure you’re not installing any infections alongside the software you originally wanted. Check out the Terms and Conditions or EULA (End User License Agreement) too. This may not be the most fun activity but it could help you keep your PC virus-free. Another popular trick involves spam email-attachments/messages. Restrain yourself from opening random emails as they could turn out to be harmful.

Why is this dangerous?

The Counterflix virus immediately starts making unauthorized changes. It injects all your favorite browsers with absolutely useless, sponsored pop-up ads. Note that the commercials are anything but safe. They are only part of your life to let hackers make money through the pay-per-click mechanism. Counterflix bombards you with various ads in various shapes. It offers misleading discounts, coupons, product offers and deals, price comparisons, best prices. All these questionable web links should be avoided so be careful what you open. You may end up on the wrong website and install more infections. Counterflix overall destroys your online activities as well as slows your PC speed to a crawl. To delete it manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Counterflix virus

The Counterflix 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 Counterflix 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 Counterflix in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Counterflix startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Counterflix, 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 Counterflix 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 Counterflix 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.