What do you know about Xmlka.com?
Xmlka.com is an adware or browser extension which recently keeps popping up on user’s browser. Once Xmlka.com gets into your computer, it will change the browser setting and replace your browser homepage and new tab. It can attach itself as an extension or add-on on the browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. When you open the browser, it will pop up automatically on your browser without your expectation.
Xmlka.com is an ads-supported program developed for displaying ads to generate traffics and make profits. If you are unfortunately to download Xmlka.com, you will receive a lot of popup ads on your browser. Xmlka.com will take up the system resources and high CPU, your computer will run very slow. It is suggested to remove Xmlka.com on your computer, you should remove it as soon as possible.
Symptoms of Xmlka.com
It will compromise the browser and read/modify/adds browser cookies;
It will display a lot of annoying commercial advertisements on your browser;
It will often take up high resources and strikingly slow down your computer speed;
It will connect to the Internet in order to request data and download files;
It will to track your computer and steal your personal information;
It will capture all web browser behaviors and can modify displayed web pages.
How to prevent from being infected by virus like Xmlka.com?
(1) Be cautious when clicking some link. It can point your browser to download threats or visit malicious web site.
(2) Don’t download unknown “free” software
(3) Avoid opening unknown e-mail attachments
(4) Don’t get access to illegal online contents such as gambling or porn.
Two effective methods to
remove Xmlka.com permanently from your computer system
1. Remove Xmlka manually.
2. Remove Xmlka by using SpyHunter anti-malware.
Detail instruction to remove Xmlka.com
Method one: Manually remove Xmlka.com
Step 1. Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):
Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.
Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.
(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.
%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 3. Delete related malicious registry entries.
Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )
Delete all the vicious registries as below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 4- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.
Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”
Method two: Automatically get rid of Xmlka with Spyhunter
SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.
Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step two: Install Spyhunter.
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.
