Hijacker Removal Expert: Remove Epifactory.com Permanently with an Easy Way

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Remove Epifactory.com Permanently with an Easy Way

What is Epifactory.com? is it safe?

Did your computer encounter epifactory.com? what is it? it is classified as a browser hijacker which can make changes of your default browser settings to replace your default homepage as its domain. Besides, it can display you annoying pop-up ads when you are visiting specific websites and target your web browsers one by one. is this the only thing that it can do on your computer? I am afraid not, you can check the potential risks below:

1.It can take up your great part of system resource and then degrade your overall computer performance.
2.It can modify your default browser settings and redirect you to its homepage to interfere with your browsing activities.
3.It can operate on your computer backdoor to invite other malware like Trojans to come to compromise your computer.
4.It can track and store your online traces like search keywords to generate profit.

How Epifactory.com sneak into your computer?

Usually it can sneak into your computer via visiting questionable websites like adults sites or clicking malicious pop-up ads, unknown attachments, downloading free software from unsafe websites. Remember to update your antivirus database frequently and not to visit the questionable sits would be a good way to avoid getting the similar infection.

Solution one:Step by Step Guide to Manually Delete Epifactory.com

Step 1- Remove add-ons:

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 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome
1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';
2) Choose 'Basic Options'.
3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.

Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';
2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;
3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';

Step 2- 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 3- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 4- 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_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

Step 5-Restart your computer normally to check the effectiveness.

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

SpyHunter is a powerful automatic removal tool which can help users to clean up the infections like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool can get along with existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool