How to Remove Official survey.com completely-Manual Removal Guide

What Is Official survey.com? Is It Dangerous?

Official survey.com is classified as browser hijacker which is aimed to mess up your web browsers no matter you are using Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. Usually, it can come into your computer via visiting malicious websites or online video downloads. Therefore you should always pay attention to the optional installation of the free software.

By modifying the default browser settings, such as DNS settings, official survey.com will replace your homepage and default search engine. At the same time, it adds registry keys and creates many infected files in the system, which makes the computer and browser slow in reaction. Every time you search for information at Google or other search engines, it jumps the search results to its own domain or other unfamiliar websites independent of your search keywords. These sites may be embedded in dangerous viruses by cyber criminals. The most annoying thing is that it pops up a lot of strange windows when you are online. All browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can be affected. More importantly,official survey.combecomes an exploit that is able to be used by a third party. That is to say, it opens a convenient way indirectly for the cyber criminals. In this case, they can remotely control your computer to drop more threats in, steal your personal information including credit card details and even make the computer be into the plight completely. There is no doubt that it has the ability to bring a lot of problems for you and your computer. Thus, it shall be cleared.

Step-by-step Guide to manually Remove Official survey.com

Step 1- Boot your computer into "safe mode with networking" by constantly tapping F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up.

Step 2- 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 3- Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from OFFICIAL SURVEY.COM
For Windows Xp: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the Run box -> click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from OFFICIAL SURVEY.COM.

For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from OFFICIAL SURVEY.COM.

Step 4- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 5- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\[random]
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

Step 6- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.exe

Step 7-Restart your computer normally to check whether there is still redirection while browsing.

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.