Renew-antivirus.com Ads Virus. How to delete?

Written by Valdis Koks

Renew-antivirus.com search hijacker is a type of virus that squeezes into your computer system, and afterwards modifies the search engine configurations in your browser to one which it wants. It likewise makes some unpleasant changes that might cause personal information leaks, in addition to other malware injection. In this post, you will see the manual of Renew-antivirus.com hijacker removal in a couple of strategies, and additionally the procedure of making your web browser as good as new.

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Renew-antivirus.com Info

Name Renew-antivirus.com extension
Type Browser hijacker1
Short Description The unwanted software that amends important browser settings without the user’s permission.
Symptoms The Renew-antivirus.com hijacker replaces the browser parameters set by the users and replaces these settings with its own values.
Distribution Method Bundling with Freeware or Shareware, misleading pop-up ads produced by adware.
Detection Tool Inspect If Your System Has Been Affected by the Renew-antivirus.com hijacker.

The ways of injection of Renew-antivirus.com search hijackers are various. Most of them come from the malware spreading via the malvertising or evil-minded links of different internet sites. Sometimes, your PC may be contaminated with this virus via the trojan-downloader, which is used to disperse numerous other malware. There is a single kind of this unwanted program – web browser plugin that may build into any kind of web browser which supports the add-on setup2.

You will not likely install this plugin by yourself, since their names are highly uncertain, and the usefulness is really controversial. The “creators” of Renew-antivirus.com hijacker generally state that it can save the .doc/.docx files from the websites already to .pdf format, or to download the entire site on your disk. It is quite hard to imagine if somebody may be needed in such operations in 2024, when the Internet access is not time-limited as well as every computer has the ability to open the needed .docx documents at Google Docs.

Nonetheless, besides their uselessness, they can effortlessly be located in the Chrome Web Store. Naturally, virus experts sound the alarm relating to such spam right into the official source of web browser extensions, demanding the Google reaction – removing these extensions from their site. However, they are still not hurrying to fix that security issue.

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Is the Renew-antivirus.com virus?

At the first sight, you may assume that these redirects are just frustrating, but not risky. Because of this reason a lot of people are simply playing for time rather than getting rid of this malware, getting much more possibilities of being infected with numerous other viruses, which are a lot more serious than Renew-antivirus.com is.

Besides the changed search engine or search engine result, you can likewise see various promotions even on those websites that do not have any ads on it by default. And you can unintentionally misclick while closing the promotion, and initiate the downloading of an unidentified file, which may be a virus, or a potentially undesirable application, or even ransomware – whatever the maintainers of this hijacker want.

If your web browser is corrupted as a result of the Azorult trojan task, the system may begin malfunctioning in the near future – this symptome is one of the most usual in case of trojan injection.

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How to remove Renew-antivirus.com?

First, let me say several words about prevention the Renew-antivirus.com virus injection. It is very easy to discuss the options of securing your personal computer from such annoying items as browser hijackers, but it is really simple to be caught on this bait even being an experienced user. As it was discussed above, this virus can hide after the attractive (at the first sight) ad, or in packs with various other adware you can get in dozens of methods. However, no matter the common difficulty of the penetration methods, it is really easy to stay away from the Renew-antivirus.com hijacker appearing in your system:

  • Do not follow the dubious links;
  • Restrict the usage of pseudo-free software (one which is offered as free, but has an additional unwanted programs in its pack);
  • Leave the habit of clicking advertisements on the web. If you need to buy something, it is better to google it;
  • Avoid downloading the files from dubious sources, like forums or file sharing websites.

Preparation before removing Renew-antivirus.com.

Before starting the actual uninstall procedure, we recommend that you do the following introductory milestones.

  • Make certain you have this hands-on tutorial always all set to utilize.
  • Perform a backup of all of your data, consisting of the stored logins, passwords and also other credentials. You should back up your info with a cloud backup solution and ensure your files are protected from any type of sort of loss, also from the most serious infections.
  • Wait until the lasting backup process is over.

Step 1: Uninstall Renew-antivirus.com and related software from Windows

Right here is a method in couple of very easy steps that should have the ability to uninstall most applications. Either you use Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP, these milestones will work well. Moving the app or its folder to the Trash can be a very wrong idea. In case you do that, remnants of the app may remain, and that can cause the unstable performance of your system, malfunctions with the file type associations and other unpleasant behavior. The effective solution to get an app off your device is to remove it manually. To do that:

1. Keep holding the Windows Logo Button and “R” on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will soon arrive.

Windows keyboard R

2. In the field that appeared, type in “appwiz.cpl” -1  and choose OK – 2.

Run appwiz.cpl

 

3. This will open a window with all the apps available on the device. Choose the app that you want to get rid of, then choose “Uninstall

Follow the steps above and you will successfully get rid of most unwanted apps.

Step 2: Get rid of Renew-antivirus.com from all your available browsers.

Mozilla FirefoxGoogle ChromeInternet ExplorerMicrosoft Edge

1. Launch Mozilla Firefox. Go to its menu window

2. Choose the “Add-ons” icon in the menu.

3. Find the unwanted extension and select “Remove

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons Remove

4. Upon deleting the extension, reload Mozilla Firefox, closing it with the help of a red “X” button in the upper right corner and start it again.

1. Launch Google Chrome and go to its drop menu

Google Chrome drop menu click

2. Click on “Tools” and then in the extended menu select “Extensions

Google Chrome Tools select Extensions

3. In the “Extensions” menu find the unwanted extension and apply the “Remove” button related to it.

Google Chrome Extensions Remove

4. As soon as the extension is deleted, reload Google Chrome by closing it by means of the red “X” button at the top right corner and launch it again.

1. Launch Internet Explorer

2. Click on the gear icon marked ‘Tools’ to open the drop menu and choose ‘Manage Add-ons’

Manage-add-ons

3. In the “Manage Add-ons” window, locate the extension you want to delete and then click “Remove”. A pop-up window will come up to inform you that you are about to delete the selected extension, and some more add-ons might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and choose “Remove”.

Internet Explorer extension removal

4. Once the unwanted extension is deleted, reload Internet Explorer by shutting it down from the red “X” button located at the top right corner and launch it again.

1. Launch Edge

2. Access the drop menu by clicking on the icon at the top right corner.

3. From the drop menu choose “Extensions”.

Microsoft Edge menu Extensions

4. Locate the suspected dangerous extension you want to delete and then click on the Remove button.

Microsoft Edge Extensions Remove

Step 3: Clean any registries that could be added by Renew-antivirus.com on your device.

The usually attacked registries of Windows machines are the following:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

You can access them by going to the Windows registry editor and getting rid of any values added by Renew-antivirus.com. Follow the steps below:

  1. Start the Run Window command once again, type “regedit” and click OK.Window command regedit
  2. As soon as you open it, you can freely go to the Run and RunOnce keys, whose locations are displayed above.Window command Run and RunOnce keys
  3. You can delete the value of the virus by right-clicking on it and deleting it.Window command regedit delete the value virus

Tip: To locate a virus-created value, you can right-click on it and select “Modify” to find which file it is set to run. If this is the malware file location, delete the value.

Step 4: Scan for Renew-antivirus.com with Loaris Trojan Remover

1. Click on the “Download” button to proceed to Loaris Trojan Remover download.

It is recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by Trojan Remover. Click on the corresponding links to check License AgreementPrivacy Policy.

2. Click “Install” to start.

Loaris Trojan Remover Install

There were 4 scan types suggested:

  • Standard Scan.
  • Full Scan.
  • Custom Scan.
  • Removable Scan.

 

3. After the installed has finished, click on the ‘Scan’ tab. Click on ‘Full Scan’.

Loaris Trojan Remover Full Scan

4. Once the scanning is started, Loaris will initiate the thorough analysis of your device and may soon identify specific threats currently slowing down the performance of your system. Make sure to wait until the scanning is completed to let the software fully evaluate the safety of your workstation.

Loaris Trojan Remover - scan in process

5. After Loaris Trojan Remover has finished scanning your PC for any files of the associated threat and found them, you can try to get them removed automatically and permanently by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button. There were options to move the files to quarantine, ignore or delete them.

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If any threats have been removed, it is highly recommended to restart your PC.

 

  1. About browser hijackers on Wikipedia
  2. Possible danger of free browser extensions

About the author

Valdis Koks

Security engineer, reverse engineering and memory forensics

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