How to Remove Jamper Virus (Google Chrome)

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Are you stuck with the Jamper Virus? Then you’re doing the right thing by searching for removal guides. This program has been categorized as a browser hijacker. In other words, the Jamper Virus hijacks your browsers and brings along various threats. There is a reason why hijackers are a dreaded type of infection. Not only do they mess with your default browser settings but they also do so in silence. You won’t realize you have a virus on board until it’s made some changes. To begin with, this parasite replaces your default search engine and homepage with its domain. Its highly questionable, incredibly unsafe domain. You can no longer use your browsers at peace. Every single time you attempt to find anything online, you have to deal with the hijacker. Wave your everyday browsing experience goodbye as the Jamper Virus will demolish it. This nuisance begins to redirect you to some specific websites. These pages may have nothing to do with your search queries, though. Furthermore, you could be absolutely positive some of them are corrupted and harmful. Hackers actually rely on the pay-per-click mechanism to gain revenue. That is why they are so stubborn to be constantly redirecting you. You will only land on the websites hackers want you to visit. The Jamper Virus displays sponsored web links disguised as safe search results. You should know better than to trust anything generated by a virus. Don’t even for a minute forget you have an infection on your computer system. There is no reason for you to be trusting its misleading, dubious web links. On the other hand, there are plenty of reasons to uninstall the hijacker immediately. Apart from redirecting you, the virus might start displaying pop-up ads too. In this scenario, your PC screen gets flooded with irritating and invasive commercials. Those are just as unreliable as the search results. Keep that in mind and stay away from the ads. You might accidentally download more parasites if you click the wrong pop-up. The Jamper Virus effectively takes over all your favorite browsers and creates quite a mess. This pest of a program causes your browsers to crash or freeze. The overall PC speed is significantly slowed down as well. Long story short, one infection is enough to make it impossible for you to use your computer in general.

How did I get infected with?

Hijackers don’t differ from most parasites when it comes to traveling the Web. The Jamper Virus probably used some of the usual infiltration methods. For instance, freeware or shareware bundling. This is considered to be hackers’ favorite tactic to distribute malware online. Why? Because it works like a charm and allows all sorts of viruses to get installed. Note that hijackers are a relatively easy to tackle sort of virus. There are some much more harmful and destructive types of infections out there. It should be enough to mention sneaky Trojan horses and ransomware. Next time you install unverified bundles, you might download something devastating. To prevent it, always take your time during the installation. Opt for the Custom or Advanced option in the Setup Wizard. If you rush the process (which many people do), you expose your device to malware. Remember, there might be infections attached to the safe programs in the bundle. You have to deselect what you don’t want to be installed beforehand. Pay attention instead of overlooking the threat parasites pose. Unfortunately, you can’t afford ever to be negligent. Stay away from spam email-attachments, fake torrents, illegitimate software and third-party ads. Whether your PC will remain safe or not is entirely up to you.

Why is this dangerous?

Hijackers are famous for being irritating. You will soon see for yourself how tiring having the virus on board is. The Jamper Virus alters your default browser settings. It also adds a malicious browser extension or a plugin. By doing so, this program hijacks your online experience. The parasite will certainly not be beneficial for you so why keep it? You now get bombarded with sponsored, potentially corrupted web links. You get redirected on a daily basis and your device underperforms. In addition to that, the virus might get to some personally identifiable information as well. Yes, the hijacker jeopardizes your privacy. More often than not, hijackers collect browsing-related data such as browsing history, usernames/passwords. If you’re especially unlucky, though, the virus could get to your bank account details too. Make sure you tackle the hijacker as soon as possible. Please follow our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Jamper virus

The Jamper 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 Jamper 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 Jamper related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Jamper startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Jamper, 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 Jamper 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 Jamper 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.