Remove Tabs 2 Grid Virus (Chrome Extension Scam)

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Did you cross paths with the Tabs 2 Grid virus? Then you should know you’re dealing with a tricky adware-type infection. To be fair, adware is relatively easy to tackle. Your situation could have been a lot worse if you’d installed a Trojan horse or ransomware, for instance. Keep in mind that the Internet is filled with some immensely dangerous and aggressive viruses. What you have downloaded belongs to the adware family. That means Tabs 2 Grid can’t harm you itself. It uses various lies to trick you into installing more infections instead. Don’t let the fact this program is less harmful than other types of malware fool you. This is still a dangerous PC infection that will eventually get out of hand. Keeping the virus thinking it can’t lead to further damage would be a terrible mistake. Furthermore, that’s precisely what hackers want. That is why they present the deceptive Tabs 2 Grid as a reliable cyber tool. The parasite is supposed to help you arrange your browser tabs and improve your browsing experience. It goes without saying Tabs 2 Grid has nothing to do with the attractive application hackers promise you. Instead of enhancing your online activities, the parasite destroys it. Tabs 2 Grid adds a malicious browser extension or a plugin behind your back. This is just the beginning of a long list of dangerous traits. Tabs 2 Grid modifies your default browser settings in order to serve hackers’ purposes. Therefore, you own opinions about your own browsers are no longer relevant. You are being harassed by the parasite every single time you surf the Web. Or, should we say, attempt to surf the Web. Browsing the Internet is neither fun nor safe anymore. The adware-type infection is currently in charge of your online experience. It injects your once trusty browsers with pop-ups. All kinds of pop-ups. All the time. You can wave your online experience goodbye right away as you can’t find anything anymore. The infection redirects you and bombards you with discounts, coupons and other commercials. It also causes your browsers to freeze or crash. Your Internet connection might become unstable as well. In addition, your browsing-related data gets effectively stolen by cyber criminals. Yes, Tabs 2 Grid spies on your sensitive information. It steals your browsing history, usernames, passwords, email addresses. Then it sends all this data straight into the greedy hands of crooks. You could be absolutely positive they will find a way to make more money out of your sensitive data. To prevent serious privacy issues, take action now.

How did I get infected with?

Most PC users skip installation steps instead of checking out the software in advance. Ultimately, that is how they end up compromising their safety. You have to spot the potential parasite and deselect it. If you rush the installation, you remain oblivious to the viruses that are about to land on your machine. Hence, we’d recommend that you opt for the Advanced option in the Setup Wizard. Make a thorough check of all programs in the bundle one by one. Otherwise, you could agree to give green light to a whole bunch of infections without even knowing it. Better to be safe than sorry. When installing bundled programs, always keep an eye out for malware. Reading the EULA (End User License Agreement) or Terms and Conditions is another piece of good advice. Unless you’re in control of the installation process, hackers might be. They only need a single moment of your distraction to infect your PC. Protect your security and avoid downloading unverified programs, especially bundled. Remember that you’d have to tackle a virus if you’re careless enough to download it.

Why is this dangerous?

Tabs 2 Grid adds a plugin to all your preferred browsers. It nasty extension is rather hard to remove because it displays a bizarre “Installed by your administrator” message. By doing so, the add-on gives you no opportunity to remove it. As mentioned, there is simply no such thing as a Remove option here. The infection forces you to put up with its random modifications and endless commercials. Note that these advertisements only get generated to trick you into clicking them. Hackers take advantage of your computer system so don’t let them cause you trouble. Tabs 2 Grid causes your browsers to redirect you and even monitors your private information. To delete it manually, please follow our detailed removal guide. You will find it down below.

How to Remove Tabs 2 Grid virus

The Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Tabs 2 Grid startup location

STEP 3: Delete Tabs 2 Grid traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid

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 Tabs 2 Grid, 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 Tabs 2 Grid 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 Tabs 2 Grid 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.