How to Remove CercaVoli

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The Internet is bursting with all sorts of parasites. They range from deadly ransomware infections to annoying adware programs. Yet, there is no such thing as minor infection. The CercaVoli parasite is somewhere between the above-mentioned infections. CercaVoli is a PUP (potentially unwanted program). It has found its way to your computer and is now wreaking havoc on it. The PUP will turn your browsing experience into a nightmare. This malicious program uses a pay-per-click marketing system. Basically, its owners will be paid for every ad you click on. To ensure their profit, CercaVoli will bombard you with advertisements. It creates an ad-layer which forces adverts on all opened websites. It can also conceal adverts from its competitors’. Thus, it limits your free choice of information sources. You will see only the content CercaVoli allows you to see. Thus, it is turning you into an easy target. Don’t allow this to happen. Remove this malicious program. This program can never be beneficial to you. On the contrary. It will make you avoid your own computer. This app was never meant as a light application. CercaVoli uses an enormous amount of computer resources. It runs on your CPU and uses a lot of RAM. The more ads you see, the slower your computer will become. There is no need to suffer. Follow our guide and remove this parasite manually. You can, of course, download a trustworthy anti-virus program.

How did I get infected with?

The CercaVoli PUP uses not one, but many distribution methods. The most commonly used one, undoubtedly, is the bundling technique. This technique relies on your negligence. Developers attach malicious apps to the installation files of many free programs. When you start the setup of such a bundle, you will be asked which installation method you prefer: the standard or the advanced option. Choose the advanced method. Only under it can you see all attached programs. Don’t install them. More often than not, these third party apps are malicious. Furthermore, if you truly needed such programs, you would have downloaded them by yourself. This is your computer. You are the one who decides what to be installed on it. Other malware distribution methods are torrents, spam emails, and fake software updates. What all these methods have in common is the fact that they count on your negligence. Be vigilant instead. If you are careful, you can prevent most infections. Leave the rest to your anti-virus software.

Why is this dangerous?

The CercaVoli PUP is not a tool you would wish to keep on your computer. This app will drown you in a sea of advertisements. Every website you visit will be covered in ad banners. Pop-up windows will cover your screen with coupons and discounts. Dealing with the malicious tool, you will notice that all adverts have something in common. All ads are appealing. This is not a coincidence. CercaVoli is not going to expose you to just any sort of adverts. It will select the ads it displays. And to select the right kind of commercials, this app needs to know what your interests are. This task is much easier than you think. CercaVoli is programmed to monitor all your browser related data. In other words, it is constantly spying on you. Everything you do online is monitored. Which websites you visit, favorite pages, even your pre-infection browsing history. Yet, the malicious tool will not use this information for marketing purposes only. It will sell every bit of data to third parties. Oh, yes. Information about you and your habits will be sold. The problem is, this data may contain information about your email addresses, usernames, credit details and even passwords. If a hacker buys it, the consequences will be devastating. Keeping CercaVoli on board is not worth the risk. This app appears to be useful, yet, the coupons and discounts it displays are not what they seem to be. Scammers often use such applications to spread corrupted content. If you click on such an app, you will be redirected to an infected website. One click is all it takes for a virus to be downloaded directly on your PC. Spare yourself the trouble. Remove the intruder before it is too late.

How to Remove CercaVoli virus

The CercaVoli 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 CercaVoli 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 CercaVoli in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate CercaVoli startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 CercaVoli, 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 CercaVoli 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 CercaVoli 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.