How to Remove Dahkservice Malware

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Dahkservice is a complete and total menace. This parasite enters your device through trickery and takes control of your web browsing. It follows instructions to turn you into an easy target. Security researchers have categorized the parasite as adware. The good news is that it is not a real virus. The parasite cannot corrupt your entire system. It limits its influence to your web browsers only. This parasite is programmed to inject various unverified adverts on every web page you load. The adware can also redirect your browser to sponsored pages. Of course, it can also open pop-up messages and pause your videos for commercial breaks. The parasite is extremely intrusive. It prevents you from using your computer normally. You cannot get a simple task done without being interrupted by an advert of some sort. Your situation worsens rapidly. The adware gets more and more aggressive with each passing day. This intruder drowns its victims in a sea of online advertisements. The more ads you see, the bigger the chance you click on a corrupted one. The Dahkservice adware has no security mechanism. It does not verify its ads. Neither does it check the advertisers behind them. Anyone willing to pay can use the parasite as an advertising platform. Numerous crooks take advantage of the adware. They prepare irresistible online offers and force them on you. They show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen! Do not risk it! The Dahkservice adware has no place on your computer. Remove it the first chance you get!

How did I get infected with?

The Dahkservice adware is a master deceiver. It cannot infect your computer on its own, so it tricked you into installing it unintentionally. No, this is not a bad joke. You allowed the pest on board. You either clicked on a corrupted link, downloaded a malicious software bundle, or installed a fake update. The thing is, your caution could have prevented these strategies from succeeding. The best thing you can do now is to learn your lesson. Don’t let other parasites trick you ever again. Avoid using torrents. Download your software from reputable sources only. When you start an installation process, pay attention to the fine print. If available, always select the advanced setup option. Under it you will be presented with a detailed list of all changes that are about to be made to your system. If additional programs are about to be installed, deselect them. You don’t need these extras. If you truly wanted them, you would have downloaded them by yourself. Furthermore, these unknown third-party apps, more often than not, are malicious programs like the Dahkservice adware. So, do yourself a favor, make sure you install safe programs only. Read the terms and conditions. If you detect anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately.

Why is this dangerous?

The Dahkservice adware jeopardizes both your security and privacy. To present you with relevant adverts, this intruder actually spies on you. It monitors your browser related data and bases its ads on the collected information. Thus, if you enter “sneakers” into a search engine, you will be presented with ads for sports shoes. It sounds great on paper. In reality, however, the risk is too high. It is just a matter of time before the parasite discovers sensitive information about you. You wouldn’t want the crooks to know such details about you, would you? That is what you risk. Numerous cybercriminals exploit this utility. They use the collected information to prepare customized advertising campaigns. The crooks know your hopes and fears. And most importantly, they know how to use this information to trick you into online traps. As we already mentioned, the Dahkservice adware does not verify its advertisements. An unverified advert may arise unwarranted expectations at best. At worst, it will redirect you to scam and potentially infected pages. One click is all it takes for a virus to be downloaded. One click on the wrong “Accept” button may cost you more than your privacy. Be very careful not to reveal financial and personally unverifiable information. Or better yet, remove the Dahkservice adware. This intruder is too risky. You will be much better without it!

How to Remove Dahkservice virus

The Dahkservice 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 Dahkservice 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 Dahkservice in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Dahkservice startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Dahkservice, 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 Dahkservice 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 Dahkservice 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.