How to Remove Omnibox Adware Completely

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Are your browsers injected with irritating pop-up ads? Have you found yourself unable to get rid of those nasty commercials? Then you should know your machine is no longer infection-free. The Omnibox virus is classified as an adware-type nuisance. It goes after your browsers and modifies their default settings. What’s much worse is the fact Omnibox doesn’t bother to seek your permission. Instead of taking your own opinions into consideration, the virus ignores you. After all, this is a creation of cyber crooks. Hackers are solely focused on their own benefits that they gain out of the parasite. What benefits exactly are those? Firstly, let’s talk about how adware words. As soon as Omnibox gets successfully installed, it adds a browser extension. That means your favorite browsers fall victims to the parasite’s shenanigans. They might start crashing or freezing so don’t expect surfing the Web to be enjoyable. You overall PC speed may get significantly slowed down due to the infection’s presence. Omnibox is more than capable of destroying your entire online experience in the blink of an eye. However, the very first thing that will catch your attention are the pop-ups. Adware-type viruses are famous for displaying a great variety of advertisements. Omnibox does the same thing. The virus alters your browser settings in order to force its pop-ups on you. Unfortunately, these commercials are very problematic and you must stay away from them. Nothing generated by a nasty PC infection is to be trusted. That includes the parasite’s pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads. Don’t get fooled into clicking any of these deceptively safe commercials because they certainly aren’t reliable. Adware generates one specific category of ads – sponsored ads. In other words, this pest allows hackers to gain profit through the pay-per-click mechanism. The only reason you’re stuck with its commercials is to help crooks make money. And, as you could imagine, their profit comes at your expense. Clicking a sponsored commercial open is an incredibly unwarranted risk. As we mentioned, Omnibox was created to boost web traffic and to help hackers gain revenue. In fact, you help them gain revenue as well by clicking the ads open. Unless for some unknown reason you want to become a sponsor of cyber criminals, avoid the Omnibox pop-ups.

How did I get infected with?

Infections like this one rarely need the victim’s authorization. Instead, Omnibox probably applied some sneaky, secretive infiltration technique. The most plausible scenario is that this pest was bundled with other programs. You see, bundled freeware/shareware is the most commonly used virus infiltration method out there. Getting your device infected isn’t a difficult task either. All you have to do is rush to download a certain program bundle off of the Internet. Voila. In case hackers have attached a virus to the program package, you end up installing the virus. Just to make the mess greater, this infiltration tactic keeps you oblivious to the fact you download an infection. However, there may be a whole bunch of parasites in a single bundle. You could install adware infections, PUPs, hijackers, even ransomware and Trojan horses. We strongly recommend that you opt for the Custom option in the Setup Wizard instead of the Basic one. Take your time during the installation process and take care of your PC. Skipping steps may seem like a good idea but it actually leaves your computer system vulnerable. You may notice that some unwanted program is trying to slither itself onto your PC. Don’t hesitate to deselect it. Otherwise, you will have to uninstall an infection which is indeed a bigger hassle.

Why is this dangerous?

The Omnibox virus is compatible with all your browsers. It messes with their default settings and wreaks havoc in silence. Bear in mind that this virus could also serve as a back door to malware. Thus, keeping it on board could cause you some extremely serious damage. The sooner you get rid of this stealthy parasite, the better. Omnibox covers your PC screen with its sponsored pop-up ads. It quickly turns surfing the Web into a cyber disaster. In addition, you’re no longer in control of your browsers. You also have to avoid stubborn, irritating web links which cover your PC screen on a daily basis. Make sure you restrain yourself from clicking any of these deceptive commercials. This program constantly redirects you to random websites and even spies on your browsing-related information. Hackers get plenty of opportunities to cause you further harm. To prevent that, please follow our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Omnibox virus

The Omnibox 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 Omnibox 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 Omnibox in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Omnibox startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Omnibox, 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 Omnibox 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 Omnibox 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.