Remove Landpage.co Facebook Virus

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Landpage.co Facebook Virus is the name of a nasty browser hijacker. The good news is that this parasite is not a full-fledged virus. It is a sneaky intruder that targets your web browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge. There is no immune program. The hijacker corrupts your favorite app and throws you into a whirlwind of advertisements. The Landpage.co Facebook virus wreaks advertising havoc. It inserts various ads on every website you visit. Even web pages that used to be ad-free get heavy on coupons and discounts. No ad-blocking tool is powerful enough to shield you from the advertisements. Pop-ups appear out of the blue. Random text turns into hyperlinks. Notifications urge you to “Add” or “Install” questionable apps. Click nothing! A hijacker displays these ads. You can’t expect them to be harmless. These “great deals” arise unwarranted expectations at best. At worst, they redirect traffic to deceptive and malicious websites. That’s the nature of the hijacker. The Landpage.co Facebook virus opens your browser to numerous online threats. Do not put up with its malicious interference! As soon as you become aware of the infection, take action. Find where the hijacker hides and delete it upon detection. The sooner you clean your operating system, the better!

 

How did I get infected with?

The Landpage.co Facebook virus travels the Web through corrupted Facebook messages – hence, the name of the parasite. This hijacker lurks behind messages that seem to be sent from your friends. The message contains your name followed by the word “video” and a shocked emoji. The message, of course, provides links that redirect to a scam website. The phony web page displays fake alerts. It states that a video cannot be played because either your browser or your Flash player needs an update. The website, of course, provides a link to the needs software update. When you click, though, you download the hijacker. Bear in mind that the corrupted links can be spread not only through Facebook but also via emails, instant messages, and malicious ads. Be very careful with your inbox. Whether its an email or an instant message, treat all unexpected messages as potential threats. Always take a minute to verify the senders. If, for example, you receive an expected email from an organization, go to their official website. Compare the email addresses listed there to the questionable one. If they don’t match, delete the pretender. The Landpage.co Facebook virus tricked you once. Don’t let other parasites do the same. Always keep your guard up!

Why is this dangerous?

The Landpage.co Facebook virus is a complete and utter menace. This parasite sneaks into your computer and makes a mess out of your web browser. It inserts dozens and dozens of ads on every website you visit, plays commercials, and turns text into hyperlinks. The hijacker may also replace your homepage, as well as force you to use a questionable search engine. Do not put up with this intruder. The more time it spends on your computer, the worse it becomes. The hijacker constantly increases the number of its ads. Their great number, of course, leads to browser crashes and errors. You face an avalanche of malfunctions. These issues, though, barely scratch the tip of the iceberg. You can notice the full extent of the corruption only when you take a closer look at the ads. They are related to your only activities, aren’t they? That’s because you are under surveillance! The Landpage.co Facebook virus spies on you from day one. This hijacker studies your browsing habits and uses the collected data as a base for ad targeting. When the parasite deems it has enough information, though, it sells the data to unknown third parties. Do you think that ends well? Some pieces of data, your search queries, for example, may leak confidential details. Don’t risk it! Protect yourself and your privacy. Remove the hijacker ASAP! Clean your OS the first chance you get!

How to Remove Landpage.co virus

The Landpage.co 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 Landpage.co 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 Landpage.co in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Landpage.co startup location

STEP 3: Delete Landpage.co traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Landpage.co 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 Landpage.co 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 Landpage.co 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 Landpage.co traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Landpage.co, 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 Landpage.co 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 Landpage.co 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.