How to Remove Hohobnd Virus

Can’t Remove Hohobnd? This page includes detailed Hohobnd Removal instructions!

Absurdly useless and very dangerous – that is Hohobnd in a nutshell. Being a relatively new cyber infection, the Hohobnd virus is classified as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). However, we assume you don’t insist on seeing its entire malicious potential unleashed on your computer. In order to regain control over your browsing experience, you have to remove Hohobnd. Since the moment this pest slithered itself on board till the moment you delete it, the parasite has nothing beneficial to offer you. If anything, it’s only beneficial for its developers. You probably know already that hackers gain profit online through the dubious pay-per-click mechanism. That’s the reason most infections get developed in the first place. Logically, Hohobnd is no exception. By displaying various commercials, this pest is actually helping cyber criminals gain revenue. What you may NOT know, however, is the fact Hohobnd generates both safe and unsafe pop-ups. Yes, some of the seemingly harmless product deals, product advertisements, coupons and discounts are corrupted. There’s nothing harmless about the web links generated by a PC infection, keep that in mind. A single careless click is just about enough to get your once virus-free computer infested with malware. Are you willing to take that risk? There’s no telling which pop-up ad is real and leads to a real website and which ad is fake and leads to a malicious page. To prevent further damage, restrain yourself from clicking anything brought to you by the virus. Chances are, it’s unsafe. The Hohobnd parasite stubbornly redirects you to unknown, unreliable websites. It also serves as a back door to malware and causes your browsers to crash and freeze on a daily basis. You could expect Internet connection issues as well. To top it all, due to the parasite’s presence, the overall PC speed will be significantly slowed down so even using the machine in general is now problematic. Unfortunately, Hohobnd’s shenanigans are far from over. The virus is known to be stealing personal information including browsing history, search queries, passwords, usernames, IP addresses, etc. Hohobnd might also try to spy on some personally identifiable data. It goes without saying how dangerous that is because all the information Hohobnd collects gets sent straight into the greedy hands of cyber criminals. And they have many monetizing platforms to choose from. If they do sell your private data, though, that puts you in great danger. Long story short, your private life online is no longer private. If you want to learn how you could uninstall the PUP, keep on reading.

How did I get infected with Hohobnd?

You’re probably rather curious about Hohobnd’s presence on your computer system. That is because you never downloaded this program yourself. More often than not, Hohobnd gets installed in silence. Many infections of this type travel the Web bundled with harmless programs. By installing a software bundle, you end up installing the virus as well. What is the solution to that? Check out the entire bundle thoroughly before you agree to download it. If you pay attention to the process, you will lose absolutely nothing but you might gain quite a lot. Therefore, make sure you’re always opting for the advanced/custom option in the Setup Wizard. Avoid the basic option as it doesn’t allow you to remain in control of the installation. And, sadly, if you’re not the one controlling the process, it will be hackers. Keep in mind that adware and pups aren’t the only types of infections that use the stealthy method of freeware/shareware bundling. Some much more dangerous viruses, such as Trojans, for example, use the same tactic. Another plausible scenario is that you clicked open something that you should have ignored. In the future stay away from suspicious-looking websites, questionable bundles, third-party ads and spam messages/emails.

Why is Hohobnd dangerous?

Hohobnd starts wreaking havoc immediately after installation. On the bright sight, it won’t take you too long to realize something is off with your computer. The virus installs a highly undesirable browser extension which is compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. As you could imagine, this modification is completely unauthorized and your personal preferences are irrelevant. Once Hohobnd injects all your browsers with commercials, you will not see the end of its pop-ups ads and pop-under ads and banner ads and interstitial ads and video ads, etc. If only reading their names made you feel dizzy, imagine seeing them all the time. The Hohobnd pop-ups are impressively annoying as they continually cover all websites you’re attempting to visit. What’s even worse is the fact these commercials are misleading. This is the reason why they should be avoided. The pop-up ads might be leading you to various dangerous websites thus causing you serious, irreversible harm. To get rid of the sneaky Hohobnd parasite manually, please follow the detailed removal guide you’ll find down below.

How Can I Remove Hohobnd?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Hohobnd 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.

• Open your task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Locate the process of fileopenerpro.exe and kill it

• Open your windows registry editor by typing”regedit” in the windows search box

Navigate to (Depending on your OS version)

[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: FileOpenerPro

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Hohobnd program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. Review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.

Navigate to C:/Program Files and delete FileOpenerPro folder. Double check with any antimalware program for any leftovers. Keep your software up-to date!