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Relistinfo.com is a bad sign. The page’s display is a clear indication of an invasion. An adware application infiltrated your system, undetected. And, the site’s appearance is its way of revealing itself. You best heed its announcement, and act on it. These are atrocious infections. As soon as the adware settles, it begins to make a colossal mess of everything. The more it remains, the bigger the mess gets. So, cut it as short as possible. Relistinfo.com is your sign of action. When you see it on screen, do your best to locate the cyber threat, and delete it on discovery. The sooner it leaves your system, the better. Otherwise, you’re in for a whirl of grievances. Don’t set yourself up for a bad time, but avoid it. The infection doesn’t only endanger your system’s well-being. It also places your privacy at grave risk. The application follows instructions to spy on our browsing, as soon as it settles. It tracks your every online move, and records it. Then, once it gets a hold of enough data, it sends it. Yes, the adware steals information from you, and then exposes it. To the cyber criminals, who published it. Do you think that ends well for you? Don’t be naive. Protect yourself, and your PC. Get rid of the nasty cyber menace ASAP.

How did I get infected with?

The adware, behind Relistinfo.com, duped you. It fooled you into giving it the green light. All, while, keeping you oblivious to it. It may seem quite the impossible feat, but it’s rather simple. Let’s explain. No adware can access a system without user’s consent. It has to inquire for permission on its admission. The application has to ask you if you agree to allow it in. Only if you say YES, can it proceed. But, chances are, you don’t recall saying YES? But the display of , indicates that you did. Well, don’t be too hard on yourself. As stated, you got duped. Yrs, the adware does inquire for your approval. Only, it does it in the sneakiest way it can. It uses the old but gold invasive methods, and preys on your carelessness. Understand that without it, its trickery can’t prove successful. The infection can hide behind freeware, spam emails, fake updates, corrupted sites. It has an array of methods at its disposal. But neither one can prove successful, if you’re careful. Think about it. If you do your due diligence, you’ll catch the adware in the act. You’ll find it attempting invasion, and you’ll deny it. But if you give into naivety and distraction, if you rush, that’s it. Your carelessness eases the infection’s infiltration. So, don’t grant it! Don’t choose carelessness over caution. One keeps threats out, while the other invites them in. Make the right decision.

Why is this dangerous?

The Relistinfo.com page becomes your online shadow. The adware turns it into the bane of your browsing. No matter what you do, it pops up. Open a new tab? It’s there to greet to. Type in a search? You find it among the suggested results. The infection doesn’t miss an opportunity to force it on you. Apart from the continuous redirects, you also get flooded with ads. Banner, in-text, pop-up. There’s an array of ads, coming your way, every time you even touch your browser. And, do you know what? Each ad is ‘Brought to you by Relistinfo.com.‘ The disruption is incessant, and quite unavoidable. Don’t think that goes unnoticed. It doesn’t take long, before the constant redirects, cause troubles. The incessant online intrusions take their toll on your system. It starts to suffer frequent crashes. Your computer’s performance also slows down to a crawl. Add to all that, the security threat, and there’s no question. The adware has NO place on your computer. Don’t extend its stay by even a moment after detection. Once the page pops up, take notice, and take action. Find where the cyber threat lurks, and get rid of it. The sooner you do, the better.

How to Remove Relistinfo.com virus

The Relistinfo.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 Relistinfo.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 Relistinfo.com in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Relistinfo.com startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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