“Five Virus” Adware Removal

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“Five Virus” is the name of a nasty adware parasite. This pest slips into your computer unnoticed and wreaks total havoc. Luckily, there is good news. The adware is not a virus. It cannot corrupt your entire system. This parasite limits its malicious influence to your installed web browsers. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, all known browsers are vulnerable. The adware adds its malicious extension to them and turns them into ad-displaying tools. As you have probably guessed, the “Five Virus” adware is behind your browsers’ odd behavior. This pest is programmed to inject various adverts on every website you open. It is also capable of loading third-party websites. And this is a huge problem. Currently, this nasty intruder redirects web traffic to phishing websites. These pages are online scams which are created to steal sensitive information. They usually display fake security warnings and promote rogue software. Do not fall victim of such low class schemes. All messages displayed through your browser should not be taken too seriously. If a website states that there is a problem with your computer, exit it immediately. Often times, these websites contain malicious scripts that download parasites. You already have the “Five Virus” adware to worry about. You certainly don’t need another one. Your best course of action is the immediate removal of the intruder. This parasite interferes with every aspect of your day to day online activities. It is very likely to trick you lure you into unwanted actions. Furthermore, this pest tends to get more and more aggressive with each passing day. Do not allow it to get out of control. Remove it the first chance you get!

How did I get infected with?

The “Five Virus” adware tricked you into installing it. No, this is not a bad joke. You infected your computer. Not intentionally, of course. The adware knows how to deceive its victims. It hides in software bundles, torrents, and fake updates. All it needs to succeed is one second of carelessness. Do not make its job easier. The key to a secure and infection-free computer is caution. Download your software from reputable sources only. Avoid shady-looking pages and torrents. And of course, before you click that “Accept” button, take a minute to read the terms and conditions/EULA. If you cannot spare enough time to read the whole document, use an online EULA analyzer to scan it. If you detect anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. Only you can keep your device virus-free. Be extra careful with your inbox. The good old spam emails are still the number one cause of virus infections. The crooks always find new ways to camouflage their parasites. They no longer rely on the classic malicious attachments. It seems that they prefer to embed malicious links. One click is all it takes for a virus to be downloaded. If you receive an unexpected message, don’t immediately open it. Verify the sender first. You can simply enter the sender’s email address into a search engine. If it was used for shady business, someone might have complained. If the message is supposed to be from an organization, your bank, for example, go to their official website. Compare the email addresses listed there with the one you have received a letter from. If they don’t match, delete the pretender immediately.

Why is this dangerous?

The “Five Virus” adware is extremely intrusive. It can ruin your browsing experience in seconds. From the moment it has entered your OS, it only causes trouble. You must be sick and tired of it. Even if you have nerves of steel, you have to remove it. Neglecting the problem only worsens it. The adware is more than a mere annoyance. It is quite dangerous. All adverts provided by the adware are potential threats. This utility has no security mechanism. It cannot protect you from online frauds. On the contrary, the crooks use it to reach potential victims. This parasite does not verify its adverts. Anyone willing to pay can promote anything. The crooks use the adware and its resources to prepare customized marking campaigns. They show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. With the “Five Virus” adware on board, you are more likely to end up on bogus websites than on legitimate ones. The adware may redirect you to scam and phishing websites. The crooks not only want to further infect your computer, they also want to lure you into revealing sensitive information. Like your bank account, real name, phone number, credit card details, etc. One second of carelessness may cost you a fortune. Be very careful what you do online. Or better yet, remove the adware immediately. This intruder is too hazardous to be kept on board. Find its lurking spot and hit that delete button! The sooner you clean your computer, the better!

How to Remove Five Virus virus

The Five Virus 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 Five Virus 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 Five Virus in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Five Virus startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Five Virus 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 Five Virus

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 Five Virus, 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 Five Virus 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 Five Virus 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.