How to Remove Yoga New Tab Hijacker

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If you have opened your web browser and discovered that your homepage was magically replaced by the www.mystart.com/new-tab/olgyoga website, we have some good and some bad news for you. The bad news is that your computer is infected with the Yoga New Tab browser hijacker. The good news is that this type of infection is relatively easy to be removed. Yet, if you don’t act promptly, the Yoga New Tab hijacker can cause some irreversible damage to your computer. This pest can drown you in a sea of advertisements. Your web browser will struggle to display any content properly. Every website you visit will be heavy on advertisements. At the most unexpected times, pop-up windows will appear right under the cursor of your mouse. Your machine will become extremely unresponsive. You can thank the Yoga New Tab hijacker for this too. Even though you don’t “see” it, the malicious tool is working on your CPU and uses RAM. The more ads you see, the more RAM is consumed. This parasite can cause some older machines to freeze and even crash frequently. Can you imagine getting any work done in such conditions? Don’t put up with this. Use our guide to remove this intruder immediately.

How did I get infected with?

The Yoga New Tab did not appear as if by magic. It is a program that was installed on your computer. But, do you remember agreeing to this? You probably don’t. However, you gave it your permission to operate on your PC. Don’t be too harsh on yourself. You were cleverly misled to do it. The Yoga New Tab utility may have arrived as an extra to some freeware you have downloaded off the web. Developers tend to attach additional programs to the installation files of many free programs. This technique is known as bundling. It is quite common nowadays. To prevent unwanted apps being installed on your computer, you must be vigilant. When installing a program, opt for advanced tab or button. Only by using the custom installation wizard can you see and deny the installation of all additional applications that come along. If you select the standard/fast installation, however, everything will proceed automatically. Your approval won’t be needed. Your computer’s health is your responsibility. Forget about the “next-next-finish” installation method. Read the terms and conditions. If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately.

Why is this dangerous?

The Yoga New Tab hijacker is a pain in the neck. It can turn your browsing experience into a nightmare. But it can be also hazardous for your PC. The malicious tool is using pay-per-click marketing system to generate revenue for its owners. This system is not dangerous, in fact, it is used by all big search engines. However, unlike them, the Yoga New Tab hijacker has no filtering mechanisms. It will land its services to anyone willing to spend some money. This means that crooks can use it to spread malicious content. If you have the misfortune to click on a corrupted ad, you will be redirected to an infected website. There, a drive-by download will be executed. These types of downloads are automatic. They start without the user’s interaction and, hence, are often used for malware distribution. Don’t tolerate this parasite. Track it down and delete it ASAP! Behind its shiny cover, the Yoga New Tab hijacker is a nasty infection. All search results displayed by the furtive tool are corrupted. It appears that they are provided by a well-known search engine, however, this is only a facade. The Yoga New Tab hijacker “injects” fake entries among them. These, most of the time, are ads. However, they are not marked as such. You will never be sure which results are organic and which are paid to be there. Doing an objective online research will be impossible. You should not tolerate this. If you are not confident in your skills, use a trustworthy anti-virus program. Don’t waste time, remove this threat immediately.

How to Remove Yoga New Tab virus

The Yoga New Tab 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 Yoga New Tab 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.

WARNING! Stopping the wrong file or deleting the wrong registry key may damage your system irreversibly.
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STEP 1: Track down Yoga New Tab related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Yoga New Tab startup location

STEP 3: Delete Yoga New Tab traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Yoga New Tab 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 Yoga New Tab 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 Yoga New Tab 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 Yoga New Tab traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Yoga New Tab 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 Yoga New Tab

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 Yoga New Tab, 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 Yoga New Tab 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 Yoga New Tab 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.