Remove Watchtvnow.co Redirects

Can’t Remove Watchtvnow.co hijacker virus? This page includes detailed Watchtvnow.co Removal instructions!

Watchtvnow.co is a malicious website. Its appearance on your screen forebodes trouble. That’s because, it announces the presence of a browser hijacker. The infection invades your system undetected. Then announces itself via the site. The sooner you accept that as fact, the faster you can act against it. Hijackers make for horrendous companions. After infiltration, they spread their clutches throughout, and corrupt everything. You start to suffer all manner of grievances. For one, every time you so much as touch your browser, you get redirected. The tool forces the Watchtvnow.co page on you, non-stop. Open a new tab, and it’s there. Type a search, and it’s among the suggested results. Do anything at all, and you see ‘Waiting for Watchtvnow.co,’ appear. Each ad, you get bombarded with, is ‘Brought to you by Watchtvnow.co.‘ And, you do see a lot of banner, in-text, and pop-up ‘Ads by Watchtvnow.co.’ Not to mention, you find the page in place of your preferred homepage and search engine. Not because you approved of its implementation, or requested it. It’s there, because the hijacker put it there. That’s what you have to look forward to. Unwanted, unapproved reshuffles, and endless online interference. But that’s not even the worst of it. Do yourself a favor, and get rid of the hijacker as soon as you can. Heed the warning that is Watchtvnow.co. And, act on it. Do your best to find out where the hijacker’s hiding place is. Then, delete it. The sooner, the better.

How did I get infected with?

Watchtvnow.co shows up because of you. You got careless at a time that required vigilance. And, you pay for your carelessness by getting stuck with the hijacker. Let’s elaborate. Hijackers need permission on their admission. Yours. The tool has to ask whether you agree to allow it in. Only if you give it the green light, can it continue. That’s why, it makes sure to get it. To avoid the risk of rejection, it turns to trickery. The hijacker employs the help of the old but gold invasive methods. Corrupted links, sites or torrents. Fake updates, spam emails, and freeware. It sure has its pick of tricks. The thing is, neither one can prove successful without you, and your carelessness. The infection needs you to rush, and throw caution to the wind. To give into naivety, and skip doing any due diligence. Don’t oblige. Don’t ease the infection’s infiltration. Do yourself a favor, and choose caution over the lack thereof. Even a little extra attention can save you a ton of issues.

Why is this dangerous?

The tool, behind Watchtvnow.co, spies on you. Yes, among everything else it puts you through, you can also add ‘espionage.’ The infection has instructions to spy on your browsing habits, from the moment it invades. And, that’s what it does. The hijacker keeps track of your every online move. As if that’s not enough, it also records your activities. Let that sink in. The tool tracks all you do, and keeps a thorough record of it. That includes links and ads you click, sites you frequent, passwords, logins. Not to mention, credit card and bank account details. After it decides it has stolen enough data from you, it exposes it. To whom? Well, to the unknown individuals that published it. In other words, cyber criminals with questionable intentions. Don’t allow that scenario to unfold. Don’t allow the hijacker to fulfill its thieving agenda. Don’t let it run rampant on your PC. Protect your system’s well-being, and keep your privacy private. Locate and remove the atrocious hijacker ASAP.

How to Remove Watchtvnow.co virus

The Watchtvnow.co 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 Watchtvnow.co 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 Watchtvnow.co related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Watchtvnow.co startup location

STEP 3: Delete Watchtvnow.co traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Watchtvnow.co related processes 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 Watchtvnow.co 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 Watchtvnow.co 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 Watchtvnow.co traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Watchtvnow.co, 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 Watchtvnow.co 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 Watchtvnow.co Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your whole system or network 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.