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Videostripe is promoted as an online platform that provides high-quality movies. Yet, this service is nothing but a giant SCAM. Unfortunately, we have worse news. The appearance of the Videostripe’s website is not a coincidence. You were redirected to this page by a malicious ad-supported program. The Videostripe adware has managed to enter your computer unnoticed and is now ruining your browsing experience. The adware is programmed with one purpose only – to generate revenue for its owners. To do so, it uses a pay-per-click marketing system. Basically, for every ad displayed by the adware, its owners will be paid. And hence, the furtive app will drown you in a sea of commercials. With every passing day, you will start to see more and more advertisements. Every website you visit will be covered in ad banners and in-text ads. Your videos will get paused for commercial breaks. You will hate the experience. Yet, the stream of issues is not ending here. Soon you will notice that your computer is performing poorly. He adware is in no way a light program. It consumes an enormous amount of computer resources. The Videostripe adware can cause some older machines to freeze and crash frequently. And this leads to data loss and the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. Spare yourself future frustrations. Remove this parasite now!

How did I get infected with?

The Videostripe adware did not materialize by magic. This malicious program was cleverly distributed to your device. As we already mentioned, the adware is an app. As any other application, to be installed, it needs your permission. No approval, no access. As simple as that. No one, however, will infect their computer on purpose. So, the crooks turned to trickery. They hide their malicious program in software bundles, torrents, spam messages and fake updates. Yet, all these techniques will fail if you are careful. Let’s take the bundling method as an example. Whenever you are installing a program, always opt for advanced installation option. Under it, you will be presented with a list of all additional programs that are about to be installed. Examine the list carefully. These third party apps, more often than not are malicious. Do not rush. Take your time to read the terms and conditions. If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. The Standard installation option, on the other hand, is completely automatic. Once you initiate it, you lose control over it. The wizard will install all extras. Your further interaction or approval will not be needed. As you can see, a little extra caution can spare you tons of problems. Always do your due diligence.

Why is this dangerous?

The Videostripe adware is annoying and invasive. This application ruins your browsing experience. Yet, it can also be harmful. Every ad it displays is a potential threat. The adware does not check what is being promoted via its services. Hackers and people with questionable interests use such apps to spread malicious content. One click is all it takes for a virus to be downloaded. There, of course, is no way to tell which commercials are corrupted and which are not. You can try to avoid the adverts, yet, you will eventually fail. The Videostripe adware is designed to trick its victims into clicking on commercials unintentionally. At the most unexpected times, it will open pop-up messages or windows right under the cursor of your mouse. If you have the misfortune to click on a corrupted ad, you may download more malware or viruses directly on your computer. The Videostripe utility can never be beneficial to you. So, do not hesitate. Delete this parasite for good!

How to Remove Videostripe virus

The Videostripe 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 Videostripe 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 Videostripe in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Videostripe startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Videostripe, 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 Videostripe 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 Videostripe 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.