How to Remove My Inbox Helper Malware

Can’t Remove My Inbox Helper hijacker virus? This page includes detailed My Inbox Helper Removal instructions!

If My Inbox Helper lurks in the shadows of your OS, brace yourself. This malware is a complete and utter menace. Security experts categorize it as a Browser Hijacker. It is an aggressive, ad-generating parasite which makes a mess out of your web browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera. The hijacker infects your favorite apps and throws you into a whirlwind of reshuffles. It replaces your homepage and preferred search engine. The parasite forces you to accept its changes. You cannot undo its modifications. As long as the hijacker remains active on your system, you are stuck with its search engine and homepage. And if you are not sure, that’s bad. My Inbox Helper uses a customized search engine that injects sponsored links among the search results you are provided with. These ads, of course, are not marked as such. You can never be sure which entries are organic and which are promoted. That’s the nature of the hijacker. It follows programming to turn you into an easy target. This parasite floods your browser with countless adverts. It injects in-text and banner ads on every website you visit. It displays pop-ups and notifications every time you so much as touch your browser. And to top it all off, it pauses your videos for commercial breaks. Do not put yourself through this torture. My Inbox Helper has no place on your system. Do yourself a huge favor and delete this parasite right now!

How did I get infected with?

My Inbox Helper uses deception to sneak into your computer. This parasite resorts to deceit and lures you into installing it. No, this is not a bad joke. The hijacker tricked you into approving its installation. Software bundles, malvertising, corrupted links, fake updates, torrents. There are myriads of ways for the parasite to deceive you. This trickster lurks in the shadows and attacks when you let your guard down. Do not make that mistake! Do not give into naivety. No anti-virus app can protect you if you throw caution to the wind! Only your actions can keep your system secure and virus-free. Don’t be lazy. Always take the time to do your due diligence. Don’t visit questionable websites! Download software and updates from reliable (preferably official) sources only. And forget about the “Next-Next-Finish” setup strategy. More often than not, the apps we download off the Web come bundled with bonus software. If you don’t pay attention to the fine print, you might install malicious extras. Do not give into naivety. When available, use the advanced/custom setup option. Under it, you would be able to deselect all unwanted extras. Make sure you know what you install. Read the terms and conditions before you agree to them. If you cannot spare enough time to go through the whole document, scan it with an online EULA analyzer. Opt out of the installation!

Why is this dangerous?

As soon as My Inbox Helper slithers into your system, corruption follows. Your browser gets out of control. It loads dozens and dozens of ads every time you so much as touch it. Pop-ups and notifications pop up out of the blue. Video commercials pause your tasks. No ad-blocking tool is powerful enough to stop the advert invasion. Hundreds of adverts manifest on your screen. Their great number, of course, burdens your browser. You face numerous freezes and crashes. Do not focus on these issues, though. A far worse threat lurks in the shadows. My Inbox Helper threatens to steal sensitive information. The hijacker spies on you from the moment it invades. It studies your browsing habits and uses the collected data as a base tor ad targeting. The hijacker, of course, doesn’t keep the gathered data confidential. Anyone willing to spend some money can use this parasite and its resources. Do you think that ends well? Hundreds of crooks are more than willing to open their wallets. They use the hijacker to target potential victims. The crooks show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. Do not risk ending up in online traps! Protect yourself and your privacy. Find where My Inbox Helper lurks and delete it upon detection. Remove this invader ASAP!

How to Remove My Inbox Helper virus

The My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate My Inbox Helper startup location

STEP 3: Delete My Inbox Helper traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper

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 My Inbox Helper, 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 My Inbox Helper 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 My Inbox Helper 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.