How to Remove Qtipr.com Redirect Virus

My homepage is redirected to Qtipr.com automatically every time I start the browser and I can¡¯t get my Google back. Even if I modify the homepage setting, I fail to change the default homepage and find that some pop-ups saying that my computer needs to optimize and suggests me to download certain products often occur on my computer screen. I feel very annoyed. My computer system is Win7 64 bits and IE browser is my frequent used browser. How to can I get rid of the problem? Please give me some suggestion.

Description of Qtipr.com


Qtipr.com is a website with invisible infection and backdoor programs, which can hijack and attack computer systems with adware or Trojan virus. This website makes use of attracting and convincing design to pretend as professional and helpful and it adds some familiar icons and connect to links such as Google plus, Twitter and Facebook icons to make it more trustworthy. However, in fact it¡¯s only a scam that cheats users to click the links on the website and download its useless and malicious program. There is a weird phenomenon that you would find various advertisements popping up under the search box. If you type some keywords in the search box to do a search, you will find that the search results contain a lot of advertisements and sponsored links. And after this infection, you will find it hard to access the websites you want to visit, for the redirect virus will keep redirect your browsers to its own page or other unknown websites. Besides, this redirect virus will constantly pop up sorts of advertisements on your browsers, urging you to download some unknown files, toolbars, or security software. You should not rashly click on that advertisements, for any click on them could lead to invasion of other malware like Trojan, spyware and adware.

Once your computer has been infested by Qtipr.com, it starts to modify default search engine¡¯ setting immediately, disrupt browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and reduce the performance of the whole system. More seriously, it slows down the computer performance and attach undesirable plug-in, add-on, toolbar onto the browser without asking user¡¯s permission firstly. It messes up your browser and you will find it unable to log in your Yahoo mail & Facebook. What¡¯s more, this hijacker corrupts DNS setting and reinstallation of the browser cannot get rid of the virus and make the browser run properly. As you can see, the threat can compromise your web browser and change your default search engine and homepage, remove it from your computer the sooner the better.

To protect your computer, you should get rid of Qtipr.com redirect virus without any hesitation. Please refer to the removal guide given below if you don¡¯t know how to perform the removal of this threat.

Undesirable Impacts of Qtipr.com Infection


1. Qtipr.com redirect can not only get on browsers without permissions, but reset default structures of affected browsers without letting you change them back.

2. There are lots of advertisements popping up on the browsers, which badly affects your surfing experience.

3. Continuous pops- up and sponsor links bombarding the screen to lure you into dropping malware into the computer.

4. The performance of the affected browsers will be incredibly slow down while unresponsive webs will be expected more often.

5. It complicates usual surfing experience, adds unneeded features to browser, and serves unwanted website instead of the required ones.

Manual Removal Instructions:


If the antivirus program installed on your computer cannot effectively remove the redirect virus, then you can try the manual removal. Prior to the manually remove the threat, you should be noted that this removal way is not only cumbersome but also risky, and it requires users to have certain levels of computer knowledge and skills. Luckily here we organize the manual method into 4 steps, by following them manual method will become much easier (The entries and files maybe different according to different operating system):

Step 1: Remove the redirect virus related programs.
1. Click Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Click on Uninstall a program under the Programs category.
3. In the programs list find out any suspicious programs, and then click on the Uninstall.
4. Follow the wizard to accomplish the removal.
Step 2: Remove all unwanted extensions from the browsers.
Internet Explorer
1. Start the Internet Explorer, click on Tools, and select Manage Add-ons in the drop-down list.
2. Click on Toolbars and Extensions, find out and disable the add-ons related to Qtipr.com redirect virus.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Run the Mozilla Firefox, click on Tools and choose Add-ons.
2. Click on Extensions, then select the unwanted add-ons in the list and click on Remove\Disable button.
3. Click Plugins, and remove\disable any unknown add-ons.
Google Chrome
1. Launch Google Chrome and click on the menu icon.
2. Click the Tools in the list then select Extensions.
3. Click on Extensions, then find out the redirect virus related add-ons and delete them.
Step 3: Remove all malicious files and registry entries.
1. In the local disk C, local the following folders:
%Temp%\
%Program Files%\
%UserProfile%\Desktop\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\
%Document and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\
2. In the above folders, find out and remove any malicious files.
3. Open the registry editor by following the steps: click Start menu, type ¡°regedit¡± into the search box, and click ¡°regedit.exe¡± from the results list.
4. In the registry editor, find out and delete any malicious registry entries from your PC.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ¡°[RANDOM].exe¡±
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ¡°[RANDOM].exe¡±
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Conclusion


Qtipr.com is a stubborn hijacker threat that causes users¡¯ headache. Once it gets inside the infected computer, it will be very difficult to remove it in a short time. You might have tried to use manual way to get rid of it or you have to restore system to its previous state. But you will be surprised to see that it still remains in system. The reason why it is so hard to delete is that it has changed system settings and browser settings, and it also modify the Windows registry and writes its entries into registry. To get rid of such annoyance, you can follow the guide provided above or simply use a powerful malware removal tool.

Note: If you think manual is too complicated and may cause system instable or other problems. Please resort to automatic way and equip your system with a helpful removal tool to quickly and safely remove it without too much concern.

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