How to remove surfvox.com--manually remove browser hijacker virus

When I open a tab on my Chrome, I was redirected to surfvox.com automatically. My laptop must have been attacked by this thing called surfvox.com. What’s worse, my laptop in a bad performance, I cant even download a file. Is there anyone can help?

What exactly surfvox.com is?

Surfvox.com is definitely regarded as notorious browser hijacker. Users usually have no idea how their computers were attacked by this virus. But when users open a tab on the search engine such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explore and Google Chrome, it is surfvox.com instead of a desired website, the browser hijacker virus has been settled down into the system.

The surfvox.com is working for an ads-supported platform, it can pop up to take over your screen now and then. One of the obvious symptoms of surfvox.com is the redirection. Because surfvox.com can modify your default homepage, and pretend to be a legal one. However, there are many malicious software provided on this site. Since unwanted programs and harmful infection can be bundled into those provided software, if users download and install those suspicious software, the targeted computers must be suffered from great damage.

Screen shot of surfvox.com

Symptoms of surfvox.com

1. It redirects you to other dubious websites.
2. It supplies you potential harmful programs and software.
3. It hijacks your browser and captures your online activities even steals your confidential information such as credit password and banking data.
4. It modifies the DNS and bypasses the detection.
5. It needs to be removed as soon as possible.

Manual removal guide of surfvox.com

Uninstall the related surfvox.com programs from Control Panel



Windows 8
Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Settings on Charms bar and go to Control Panel. Select Uninstall a program and remove surfvox.com related programs.

Windows XP
Go to Start, navigate to Settings and click on Control Panel, navigate to Add or Remove Programs, choose Programs and Features, find surfvox.com related programs, and hit Remove.

Windows 7/Vista
Go to Start, navigate to Control Panel, select Uninstall a program/Programs and Features, find surfvox.com related programs, and click on Uninstall.

Remove surfvox.com from your browsers

*Google Chrome: 
Click on the Tools menu → select Options → Click “Under the bonnet” tab → locate “Privacy” section → browsing data” button → “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.



*Internet Explorer:
Click “Tools” → Click “safety” → “delete browsing history” → Tick “cookies” box and click delete



*Firefox:
 Click “Tools” → Click “Options” → Click “Privacy” → Click “remove individual cookies”



Reset your DNS





Delete the responsible registry entries from the Registry Editor



HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOMCHARACTERS]　　　HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOMCHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\conduit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\conduct
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppdataLow\surfvox.com HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPrandom” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin” = 0

Important Note: To completely remove this surfvox.com calls for certain computer skills. If you are not sure to remove it all by yourself, please don’t hesitate to click here to ask professional help from MiTechMate online experts.