How to Remove Kergaukr.com Adware

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Do you feel like drowning in a sea of adverts? Every time you as much as touch your browser, ads provided by Kergaukr.com cover your screen? Well, in that case, the news is not good. Unfortunately, your computer harbors an infection. You have a nasty adware on board. The Kergaukr.com adware is not a virus, but a malicious application. The parasite enters your computer in complete silence and corrupts all installed browsers. The adware uses your favorite browsers to spy on you and to bombard you with ads. The furtive app is programmed to monitor your online activities. It knows which websites you open what search inquiries you make, what videos you watch. Even the Incognito mode of your browser cannot hide you from the adware. On paper, the collected data is used for better ad-targeting. Thus, if you enter “sneakers” into some search engine, the adware will display ads for sports shoes. In practice, however, the collected data is sold to third parties. It may not sound too dangerous, but such a data can be used against you. A capable advertiser, for example, can use it to target you with customized marketing campaigns. All sorts of crooks use the adware as an advertising platform. Some of these people are criminals. They will not hesitate to expose you to deceiving or even malicious adverts. One click on the wrong ad is all it takes for a virus to be downloaded. The Kergaukr.com adware is exposing both your security and privacy to risk. This app is too hazardous to be kept on board. Remove it before it causes serious damage!

How did I get infected with?

The Kergaukr.com adware did not appear by itself. This parasite cannot infect your computer with your help. The adware is a simple computer program. Like any other program, it needs you to click on the “Accept” button. It cannot infect your device without your permission! But do you remember allowing this pest on board? We won’t be surprised if you don’t. The Kergaukr.com adware uses sneaky tactics to lure you into installing it unintentionally. In usually hitches a ride with other software. The so-called software bundling method is a common cause of adware infections. To prevent the method from succeeding, all you should do is to be more careful. Don’t rust through an installation process. Always opt for the Advanced option in the Setup Wizard. Only under the Advanced installation will you be presented with a list of all additional apps that are about to be installed. If you don’t like the extras, you can deselect them. The Standard Setup, on the other hand, is completely automatic. It installs all extras will be installed without further notice. It is up to you to prevent this. Always select the Advanced method. It is also a good idea to review the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreement. If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately.

Why is this dangerous?

The Kergaukr.com adware is extremely intrusive. This app can ruin your browsing experience in seconds. It injects dozens and dozens of adverts on every website you open. Every time you try to follow a link, additional tabs open in your web browsers. On top of that, the nasty adware goes as far as to pause your online videos for commercial breaks. You cannot surf the Web normally. The intensive marketing campaigns, however, have side effects. The numerous adverts burden your browser. It may start to freeze and crash frequently. Your Internet Connection will also seem slower than usual. Your computer’s general performance will worsen. You will hate the experience. These issues, however, are nothing compared to the thing the adware does behind your back. This parasite has no security mechanism. Anyone willing to pay can use it to promote. All sorts of crooks use the Kergaukr.com adware and its resources to target potential victims. It may sound far-fetched, but the collected information turns you into an easy target. The crooks know your preferences. They can create custom adverts to lure you into visiting bogus websites. If you are extremely unlucky, you may even end up on an infected page. With the Kergaukr.com adware on board, you are very likely to end up on scam and deceptive websites. Keeping this app on board is not worth the risk. Get back in control of your browser, remove the adware now!

How to Remove Kergaukr.com virus

The Kergaukr.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 Kergaukr.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 Kergaukr.com in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Kergaukr.com startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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