Hijacker Removal Expert: How to Remove DailySweepstaked.com Completely

Thursday, September 4, 2014

How to Remove DailySweepstaked.com Completely

What is DailySweepstaked.com ?

DailySweepstaked.com is classified as an adware which will constantly display you unstoppable pop up ads to promote freeware like video downloader or media player, etc. this annoying ads also will show you bunches of advertisements on your search results page to try to redirect you to add-supported sites. DailySweepstaked.com is designed by cyber hackers to increase web traffic and generate profit from it. to achieve its purpose, it will modify your default browser settings and take advantage of your system vulnerability to invite more unwanted adware to come into your computer.

How can it get into your computer without your knowledge? Usually it can get into your computer when you are visiting questionable websites or it can bundle with the freeware downloads. If you don’t uncheck the optional program that you don’t need, unwanted adware like DailySweepstaked.com will get into your computer with your permission. Therefore, it is suggested to pay attention to the default installation and always keep your antivirus up to date and scan your computer frequently.

What harms can it cause?

It will take up your precious system resource to slow down your overall computer performance.
It will monitor your online traces via colleting your search keywords, favorites, bookmarks, browser history, etc.
It will display you annoying pop up ads or even redirect you to other unknown websites.
More useless toolbars or browser extensions are invited to come into your computer.

Step by Step Guide to Manually Remove DailySweepstaked.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 DailySweepstaked.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 DailySweepstaked.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 DailySweepstaked.com.

Step 4: Remove add-ons:

Assuming you have DailySweepstaked.com on Internet Explorer:

1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;

2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;

3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;

4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.

Solution two: Get rid of DailySweepstaked.com by automatic scan of SpyHunter removal tool

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to help computer users to clean up the infections like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool