How to Remove Vidsquare Virus (Chrome, Firefox)

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If you stumble across Vidsquare on your machine, it is time to take action. This program is anything but harmless. For one thing, did you agree to download it? Probably not. Vidsquare has been classified as adware. That means it is sneaky, deceptive, extremely annoying and very dangerous. The sooner you manage to get rid of the parasite, the better. After all, why keep an infection of any kind on your device? There is no such thing as a virus that is worth having on board. Hence, the Vidsquare virus has to go. Since the very moment this program slithers itself onto your PC, trouble begins. Your browsers are the first to experience the parasite’s manipulations. How does its scheme work? Well, after successful installation, Vidsquare adds an extension to your browsers. Yes, all of them. By doing so, the adware brings along an enormous pile of sponsored pop-ups. Do you see where this is going? Hackers use the dubious pay-per-click mechanism to gain revenue. Of course, their profit comes at your expense because the ads are unreliable. They are also incredibly stubborn and obnoxious. Do you think clicking a sponsored commercial is a good idea? It’s definitely not. The advertisements this program generates could lead to malware. Eventually, you may compromise your machine even further. Vidsquare bombards your PC screen with pop-ups in all shapes and sizes imaginable. It displays pop-ups and pop-unders and banners and interstitials and video ads. As you could imagine, browsing the Web in such a mess of ads is almost impossible. In addition, your overwhelmed browsers now crash and freeze like nobody’s business. Keep in mind that the commercial are potentially harmful. We recommend you stay away from all ads even though they might seem attractive. Don’t risk jeopardizing your security and avoid these misleading ads. They are only on your screen to generate web traffic to some specific pages. Enhancing your online shopping experience was never what adware was about. The virus also slows down the computer speed and causes the device to underperform. There’s more. Vidsquare even gets access to your browsing-related information. IP addresses, usernames and passwords, browsing history. Thanks to the parasite’s trickery, hackers steal your sensitive details. To prevent some serious privacy issues, delete this program ASAP.

How did I get infected with?

Vidsquare uses the same infiltration tactics all other adware-type programs do. That means the most plausible explanation is that the virus was part of a bundle. A rule of thumb in the future is to stay away from illegitimate freeware/shareware bundles. Those usually hide at least one nasty intruder as a bonus. However, that’s a bonus you most certainly do not want to install. That is why you should always opt for the custom or advanced option in the Setup Wizard. Instead of rushing the installation process, take your time. It will take you a lot more to delete an infection once it gets downloaded. Put your privacy and security first. If you notice some undesirable bonus program in a bundle, don’t hesitate. Deselecting it would prevent malware infiltration. Ultimately, your caution will pay off. Check out the Terms and Conditions or EULA as well. You must be aware what exactly you accept. Otherwise, it may turn out that you compromise your own device by being careless. Another thing to watch out for are spam email-attachments and messages in social media. Many PC users accidentally let loose viruses by opening such a corrupted email or message. Make sure you don’t let crooks cause you harm.

Why is this dangerous?

This program alters your browser settings. It doesn’t bother to seek your permission simply because hackers don’t need it. Vidsquare will not take care of your cyber preferences. It will ruin your browsing-related activities, though. Due to the parasite’s tricks, you now get constantly redirected. That means you will constantly land on highly questionable, unknown websites. Furthermore, hackers make money that way. You’re practically becoming a sponsor of their malicious business by tolerating the virus. Its browser plugin works with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. You can’t even use the device in general as the PC starts crashing as well. In addition to that, your private data gets sent straight into the hands of cyber criminals. To delete the virus manually, please follow our detailed removal guide. You will find it down below.

How to Remove Vidsquare virus

The Vidsquare 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 Vidsquare 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.

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STEP 1: Track down Vidsquare in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Vidsquare startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Vidsquare, 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 Vidsquare 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 Vidsquare 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.