Remove Linkury Adware from Chrome, Firefox, IE

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Today’s article is all about the Linkury Adware. Seeing this program on your machine is, without a doubt, bad news. Don’t overlook the threat such a parasite poses to both your safety and privacy. Linkury Adware is an immensely problematic, annoying infection. It is a classic representative of the pesky adware family. Thus, the virus floods your PC screen with pop-ups. After all, this is why adware-type parasites get developed in the first place. Hackers need such programs so they could use the pay-per-click mechanism and make money. The whole thing revolves around hackers’ illegitimate revenue. Unless you’re willing to become their sponsor, get rid of Linkury Adware as soon as possible. You have nothing to lose out of removing the parasite. You do have a lot to gain, though. We recommend that you tackle the intruder before it manages to get out of hand. If Linkury Adware spends enough time on your machine, things will get pretty bad quickly. To prevent some serious damage, take action now. Linkury Adware modifies your favorite browsers and bypasses your preferences. In other words, your default browser settings get altered behind your back. This is a very dangerous trick as you’re now unable to surf the Internet. Furthermore, you get constantly redirected to unknown, often malicious websites. That means you aren’t even in control of your very own browsers anymore. Linkury Adware adds a questionable browser extension or a plugin. It might also install some additional toolbars or make other modifications. Long story short, Linkury Adware destroys your browsing experience. It causes your browsers to redirect you, to crash or freeze. Your personal data also gets stolen so hackers could sell some immensely sensitive details to unknown third parties. It goes without saying cyber criminals should never have access to your personal information. The sooner you delete Linkury Adware, the better. Don’t waste time because this program is certainly not a threat to be taken lightly.

How did I get infected with?

There are a couple of particularly popular infiltration tactics. Perhaps the most commonly used method is called freeware/shareware bundling. If it sounds simple, that is because it is. Program bundles allow all sorts of cyber intruders to get spread online. All you have to do is download some software bundle off of the Internet without paying much attention. As you could imagine, that’s what most PC users do. Instead of keeping an eye out for malware, people tend to rush the installation process. That is how they fall victims to parasites. To protect your security, you have to take your time. Opt for the Custom or Advanced option, for example. This will let you be in control of the entire installation so no malicious “bonuses” could get installed. Don’t skip any steps because you may also be skipping precious opportunities to prevent virus infiltration. Last but not least, reading the Terms and Conditions is a must. Same thing goes for the EULA (End User License Agreement). Stay away from unverified websites and make sure your machine remains virus-free.

Why is this dangerous?

To begin with, adware-type parasites are obsessive. They work in silence and cover your PC screen with useless, problematic pop-up ads. Bear in mind the commercials Linkury Adware generates are all sponsored. Hackers are currently trying to trick you into clicking their ads open. However, if you do click any of the Linkury Adware ads, you may compromise your safety further. Nothing displayed by a cyber parasite is reliable. Avoid clicking the deceptive advertisements this pest may bring to your PC screen. That includes the product deals and offers, software updates and other web links you might come across. Chances are, the ads are corrupted and extremely problematic. You are stuck with a tricky parasite that turns browsing the Web into a cyber nightmare. No matter which page you’re attempting to visit, the virus covers it with sponsored pop-up ads. It also leads to a poor PC performance. Last but not least, this nuisance may result in some privacy issues. The parasite collects some private details and sends them right into the hands of hackers. Linkury Adware adds its extension to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. It hijacks all your browsers and demolishes your everyday online activities. To delete the virus manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Linkury virus

The Linkury 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 Linkury 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 Linkury in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Linkury startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Linkury, 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 Linkury 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 Linkury 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.