Xvideos.com Adware Removal

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If your browser keeps getting redirected to the Xvideos.com website, if obscene and vulgar ads pop up out of the blue, the news is very bad! Your computer is no longer free of infections. Adware intruder lurks in the shadows of your OS and causes serious trouble. Brace yourself! The parasite is a nightmare. It sneaks into your computer through deception and corrupts your web browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Edge. There is no immune program. The adware infects your poor browsers and turns your browsing experience into hellish torture. The Xvideos.com redirects are just the beginning of an ad invasion. The adware inserts various banners on every web page you load. It also opens pop-ups and turns random text into hyperlinks. No ad-blocking tool is powerful enough to shield you from the ads. Countless notifications urge you to “Approve” and “Install” questionable extensions. Click nothing! These ads are unreliable. Adware displays them. You can’t expect them to be safe. The ads arise unwarranted expectations at best. At worst, they redirect traffic to deceptive and malicious websites. And as if that’s not bad enough, but their great number burdens your browser and make it prone to crashes. You face an avalanche of errors and crashes. Don’t put yourself through this! As soon as the Xvideos.com ads appear, take action. Find where the adware hides and delete it upon detection! The sooner you clean your OS, the better!

How did I get infected with?

Adware forces the Xvideos.com website on you. The sneaky intruder infects your computer through trickery and throws you into a whirlwind of ads. Don’t imagine cyber attacks, though. That’s not the way this parasite invades. No, the adware is not that advanced. This parasite is a simple application. It needs you, the user, to approve its installation. No permission, no admission! The adware is bound to seek your consent. And here’s the catch: having to ask is not the same as having to do so outright. The adware hides in the fine print. It lurks behind fake updates, corrupted links, spam messages, and pirated software. There are myriads of adware distribution tricks. The parasite behind the Xvideos.com ads, however, tends to rely on software bundles. This menace corrupts your system when you “forget” to deselect it. Do not make that mistake! More often than not, the apps we download off the Web come bundled with bonus software. If you rush through their installations, you might end up with malicious extras. Don’t rely on luck! Forget about the “Next-Next-Finish” setup strategy. When available, use the advanced/custom option. Deselect all unwanted extras. And go through the terms and conditions before you agree to them. If you can’t read the whole document, scan it with an online EULA analyzer. Even a little extra attention can spare you an avalanche of problems. Opt out of the installation if you notice anything suspicious!

Why is this dangerous?

As soon as the Xvideos.com website pops up, problems follow. Your browser gets flooded with ads. Coupons and discounts cover even web pages that used to be ad-free. Commercials pause your videos. Pop-ups appear when you least expect them. And to top it all off, questionable websites load in new tabs and windows. These annoying adverts, however, are not the real issue. These are just the side effects of the adware infection. If you just take a closer look at the adverts, you will realize that most of them are related to your browsing activities. That’s because these annoying pop-ups are targeted at you. The adware behind them studies your browsing habits and bases its ad selection on the gathered data. Do you think that ends well? The parasite spies on you from day one! It knows which websites you visit, which links you follow, which videos you watch. The Incognito mode can’t hide you. The parasite knows everything! And when it deems it has enough data, it sells everything to unknown third parties. Don’t take unnecessary risks! Some pieces of data, your search queries, for example, may leak personal and financial details. Not to mention that any type of data can be used for customized online scams. Spare yourself many future headaches. Remove the adware ASAP!

How to Remove Xvideos.com virus

The Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Xvideos.com startup location

STEP 3: Delete Xvideos.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com

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 Xvideos.com, 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 Xvideos.com 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 Xvideos.com 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.