Funny Collection Virus Removal

Funny Collection is the name of a relatively new browser hijacker. There’s absolutely nothing funny about it. Even though, hijackers aren’t considered a particularly big threat, they are not harmless. No type of infection is. That means you’d inevitably regret keeping the parasite on your machine. Do the right thing concerning your safety and tackle this program ASAP. Funny Collection takes over your browsers. Its tricks start immediately after installation. You see, hijackers aren’t called like that for no reason. This particular infection will make it very clear for you where the name comes from. Funny Collection modifies your search engine and default homepage. Both get replaced with the parasite’s domain. Its unreliable, malicious domain. Keep in mind that the Funny Collection hijacker is compatible with all your browsers. It effectively alters all their settings to force itself on you constantly. There’s no more surfing the Internet at peace now that this program is present. The virus also adds an extension to your browsers. As a result, it covers your PC screen with a huge amount of suspicious web links. According to the parasite’s developers, Funny Collection provides accurate and safe search results. However, the one thing this pest actually provides is quick access to malware. All web links and commercials generated by the virus are sponsored. Therefore, all of them are incredibly unsafe. Some of them may lead you to harmless websites. Others may lead you straight to dangerous websites full of malware. Are you willing to click? One single careless click on the wrong web link could worsen your situation in the blink of an eye. In order to prevent it, stay away from the parasite’s links. Keep in mind that those are now part of your life solely so crooks could gain profit. Hackers use the dubious pay-per-click mechanism. They boost web traffic to some specific pages and, eventually, make money. Their revenue comes at your expense so think about it. Not only does keeping the hijacker expose you to threats but it also makes you a sponsor of crooks. You could be absolutely positive hackers will use their profit to develop more infections. Hence, more people would end up infected. We assume you’re not actively trying to support the malicious business of cyber criminals. Take adequate measures right away and uninstall the hijacker for good. Funny Collection also causes a poor PC performance. Due to its shenanigans, your browsers start crashing and freezing. The virus makes your Internet connection unstable as well so it pretty much destroys your entire online experience. In addition, it spies on your personal details.

How did I get infected with?

This program does have an official website. It has no download button, though. In the future, know that’s a sign of a parasite. Not having a download option means Funny Collection has slithered itself on board in silence. How did that even happen? Well, cyber parasites have a couple of sneaky techniques to rely on. For example, they get attached to spam messages or emails. Another method involves fake program updates or bogus torrents. The number one tactic used at the moment is called freeware/shareware bundling. Have you recently downloaded a bunch of programs off of the Internet? This is the most plausible explanation of this parasite’s presence. Next time you install bundled programs, opt for the Custom option in the Setup Wizard. Pay attention to what you give green light to and watch out for malware. Infecting your PC isn’t a challenging task. Neither is preventing infiltration, though. Be cautious when browsing the Web. You certainly won’t regret it.

Why is this dangerous?

The Funny Collection virus makes it impossible to find what you search for online. This nuisance changes Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. As mentioned, none of its shenanigans involves your permission in any way. All your favorite browsers are now completely modified. That means they are no longer trustworthy. Funny Collection generates pop-up, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads and many more types of ads. Every website you visit will be covered with these irritating, sponsored, highly questionable web links. Restrain yourself from clicking as you might compromise your device much further. You also get constantly redirected and your machine underperforms. Never underestimate the threat such a stealthy virus exposes you to. To delete the parasite manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Funny Collection virus

The Funny Collection 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 Funny Collection 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 Funny Collection in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Funny Collection startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Funny Collection 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 Funny Collection

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 Funny Collection, 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 Funny Collection 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 Funny Collection 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.