How to Remove Grandaxis.com Adware

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The Grandaxis.com page is the face of an adware application. These programs are invasive, malicious, and an immense danger. They throw you into a whirl of harm. As soon as they slither into your system, you get flooded with issues. The infection, behind the Grandaxis.com is no different. It uses slyness and finesse to invade. Then, proceeds to wreak havoc, and mess everything up. Understand this. The longer the program remains on your PC, the worse your predicament gets. An adware application is not a program, you want to keep. All, it offers, is headaches, frustration and, altogether, unpleasantness. Don’t expect any positives to follow the infection’s invasion. It only brings issues your way. There aren’t enough ways to stress that. The sooner you accept that, the better. Accept the site for what it is. A warning. A sign that indicates, a dangerous cyber threat lurks on your PC. Do your best to find its exact hiding place. Then, delete it on discovery. Don’t waste time. Delays cause regrets. Get rid of the adware ASAP.

How did I get infected with?

The Grandaxis.com page is the face of an adware application. These programs are invasive, malicious, and an immense danger. They throw you into a whirl of harm. As soon as they slither into your system, you get flooded with issues. The infection, behind the Grandaxis.com is no different. It uses slyness and finesse to invade. Then, proceeds to wreak havoc, and mess everything up. Understand this. The longer the program remains on your PC, the worse your predicament gets. An adware application is not a program, you want to keep. All, it offers, is headaches, frustration and, altogether, unpleasantness. Don’t expect any positives to follow the infection’s invasion. It only brings issues your way. There aren’t enough ways to stress that. The sooner you accept that, the better. Accept the site for what it is. A warning. A sign that indicates, a dangerous cyber threat lurks on your PC. Do your best to find its exact hiding place. Then, delete it on discovery. Don’t waste time. Delays cause regrets. Get rid of the adware ASAP.

Why is this dangerous?

The Grandaxis.com page conceals an ad-supported program. The adware has to make money for the people that published it. If it fails, it falls into oblivion. To avoid getting taken down, the tool does its best to be lucrative. It generates web traffic to third-party websites. As well as, produce pay-per-click revenue. That’s why, not long after invasion, you suffer the consequences of the adware’s stay. You encounter frequent redirects, and pop-up ads. The program floods your screen with them, in an attempt to ensure its survival. Don’t make the mistake of trusting a single link of ad. Everything, the application throws at you, is unreliable. Discard it. Ignore it. Don’t click it. Clicks only worsen your predicament. But nothing is as bad as the security issue. The adware jeopardizes your private information. It follows programming to steal data from you. And, then, send it to the people behind it. After they get their hands on it, they can use it as they see fit. There’s nothing you can do to stop them. Is that something you want? To get your private details stolen and exposed to strangers? To cyber criminals with questionable intentions? Do yourself a favor, and prevent that scenario from happening. Don’t take the risk. Don’t put up with any of the issues that follow adware. Acknowledge the display of the Grandaxis.com site as the sign it is. And, act on it. Locate and remove the cyber menace the first chance you get.

How to Remove Grandaxis.com virus

The Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Grandaxis.com startup location

STEP 3: Delete Grandaxis.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com

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 Grandaxis.com, 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 Grandaxis.com 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 Grandaxis.com 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.