Remove IP Ninja Adware (Full Uninstall)

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If you come across the IP Ninja virus, you’re in danger. This infection will put your nerves to the test and it has to be immediately uninstalled. Classified as an adware-type virus, IP Ninja is notoriously annoying. What you may not know about adware is that these programs are also very dangerous. Some people underestimate adware-type viruses thinking they can’t get out of hand. However, all kinds of viruses could eventually get out of control. Your job is to prevent this. Once the IP Ninja pest lands on board, it starts messing with your browsers. As you could imagine, hackers don’t take your permission into consideration. No cyber intruder is going to seek your consent before it makes changes. IP Ninja does the same thing. It bypasses your opinions and makes a bunch of unauthorized modifications. Eventually, your safety ends up seriously jeopardized due to these changes. The adware adds a malicious extension to your browsers. By doing so, IP Ninja takes over your entire online experience and bombards you with ads. After all, this is a classic adware-type program. Its one purpose is to boost web traffic to some very specific websites. Once again, your opinions about that remain out of the picture. IP Ninja’s browser extension brings along a huge variety of commercials and pop-up ads. Obviously, hackers aren’t trying to help you save time or money while shopping online. Your online activities are the last concern of this program’s developers. Crooks are solely trying to make money through the pay-per-click mechanism. Such a devious technique allows them to gain effortless profit. The problem is, hackers’ revenue comes at your expense. By clicking their sponsored commercials you’re practically turning into a sponsor of one rather questionable business. Keep in mind that crooks would use every single cent they gain to develop more infections. Ultimately, more and more innocent PC users will fall victims to malware. Do not reward hackers for messing with your PC and stay away from their advertisements. IP Ninja constantly generates various ads in all shapes imaginable. You may spot pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads, etc. What all those commercials share is the fact they could be corrupted. The adware only generates sponsored ads which don’t necessarily have to be safe. If you’re unlucky, you may land straight on harmful websites full of malware. To prevent further damage, avoid the IP Ninja ads. Also, take action as soon as possible and delete the virus.

How did I get infected with?

The answer to this question is actually very simple. Do you often agree to download freeware/shareware bundles? Then you should know this is one of the most popular infiltration methods out there. It lets all kinds of viruses travel the Web in silence. If IP Ninja was part of some seemingly safe program bundle, you may have downloaded it as a bonus. That is why it is always strongly recommended that you pay attention to what you give green light to. Be careful in advance so you don’t have to deal with infections afterwards. An easy way to prevent virus installation is to opt for the Custom/Advanced option in the Setup Wizard. You see, you have to make a thorough check of the programs included in the bundle. It might be full of potential intruders that are waiting to get installed. Do not compromise your very own safety when you could protect your machine. Watch out for malware and stay away from unverified websites/bundles. In addition to that, avoid opening random messages or emails that you may receive. Hackers could send infections into your inbox so be careful. It is your job to keep your computer system virus-free.

Why is this dangerous?

Tolerating an infection is never safe. As long as IP Ninja is on your device, it causes trouble and exposes you to more parasites. Then why hesitate? Tackle the adware ASAP in order to regain control over your computer. The IP Ninja nuisance constantly disturbs your online experience and bombards you with ads. As mentioned, your browsers receive a brand new (malicious) plugin added to them. This is how the adware managed to inject them all with a pile of sponsored pop-ups. Clicking any of the IP Ninja ads would be risky. You may accidentally download more infections or visit dangerous pages. Apart from that, the adware collects your browsing-related details. It spies on your IP addresses, email addresses, browsing history. Hackers get free access to your sensitive information and this trick may end badly for you. To delete the virus manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove IP Ninja virus

The IP Ninja 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 IP Ninja 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.

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STEP 1: Track down IP Ninja in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate IP Ninja startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the IP Ninja 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 IP Ninja

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 IP Ninja, 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 IP Ninja 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 IP Ninja 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.