Remove Dopig Completely from Chrome, Firefox, IE

Can’t Remove Dopig hijacker virus? This page includes detailed Dopig Removal instructions!

This is one of the newest browser hijackers. Just like all other infections of the kind, it is a complete and utter pest. Hijackers are probably among the most annoying viruses online. Apart from the fact they get downloaded in silence, they make modifications in silence. That means having Dopig on your machine is inevitably going to create trouble. The hijacker has various tricks up its sleeve so don’t overlook the threat. Get rid of the infection as soon as you come across its unwanted presence. The more time a hijacker spends on board, the more damage it could cause you. Dopig is a typical member of the nasty hijacker family. Even though you can’t expect originality out of it, you should expect problems. This program practically takes over your favorite browsers. It’s not called a browser hijacker for no reason, after all. The parasite adds a malicious plugin or an extension to your browsers. This is it. Consider your entire browsing experience effectively destroyed. As you could imagine, hijackers don’t get developed to help you find accurate search results. Dopig has one much more prosaic purpose that has nothing to do with you. On the other hand, it has quite a lot to do with the profit hackers gain online. Are you familiar with the way the pay-per-click mechanism works? Hackers could gain effortless revenue out of redirecting you. This is where the hijackers’ trickery comes in particularly efficient. By adding a plugin to your browsers, Dopig injects them with sponsored web links. Its shenanigans don’t end here, though. The virus has plenty of malicious potential which makes it super dangerous. Dopig also replaces both your search engine and default browser homepage with its domain. You see, that is how you end up stuck with the hijacker. Every single time you attempt to use any of your browsers to find anything online, you have to deal with the virus. This nuisance doesn’t generate harmless search results, though. It displays sponsored ones that could turn out to be corrupted. Thanks to the parasite, you’re currently one click away from malware on a daily basis. Needless to go into detail why you shouldn’t click any of those web links. You might automatically download more infections and worsen your already pretty bad situation. The Dopig virus could also install additional toolbars and alter your browser settings further. In addition, this pest spies on your private details. Long story short, the hijacker has to go.

How did I get infected with?

The parasite was probably bundled with other programs. How do we know? Because that is hackers’ absolute favorite method at the moment. It is stealthy as well as efficient. Hence, it’s no surprise crooks mainly use program bundles to spread malware on the Web. The problem is that installing a virus is an extremely easy task to complete. Next time you download freeware or shareware bundles, pay attention. You might compromise your security if you rush. Stay away from the Basic option in the Setup Wizard. Opt for the Advanced/Custom option instead. If you go through all programs in the bundle, you’ll successfully spot a potential infection. If you skip installation steps, though, you could infect your PC. Always go through the Terms and Conditions or EULA (End User License Agreement) as well. Unless you’re one hundred percent in control of the installation process, hackers might be. Make sure you protect your computer system from intruders and be cautious. Having to remove malware is a much greater hassle than prevention is. We would also recommend that you avoid unverified websites, suspicious torrents and third-party pop-up ads. Last but not least, delete the spam email-attachments or emails you may receive in your inbox.

Why is this dangerous?

All your browsers get modified behind your back. The hijacker isn’t going to seek permission. Dopig alters your browser settings in order to serve hackers’ purposes. As mentioned already, this program installs an add-on thus injecting your browsers with sponsored links. The parasite begins to redirect you and leads to a poor PC performance. Your browsers might crash and/or freeze on a daily basis now that Dopig is present. What is even more worrisome is that your private data gets sneakily monitored and sent directly into the hands of hackers. Before you know it, the hijacker could get to some personally identifiable information too. To prevent financial frauds and identity theft, delete this pest now. Please follow our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Dopig virus

The Dopig 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 Dopig 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 Dopig related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Dopig startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Dopig related processes 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 Dopig 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 Dopig 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 Dopig traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Dopig, 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 Dopig 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 Dopig Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your whole system or network 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.