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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

How to Stop / Remove Pinterest.aot.im?

What is pinterest.aot.im?


Pinterest.aot.im is an annoying browser hijacker virus that has dragged many computer users into trouble. Most of the users did not install it to their computer; however, it pops up suddenly when they open their browsers. No browser can be survived. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, all of them will be the captured by this tricky pinterest.aot.im hijacker virus. Also, pinterest.aot.im will bother users’ online activities by displaying many useless and harmful advertisements. It pretends to be a legal search engine, but don’t be lured. Contents displayed in this web site are malicious to your computer, other infections and virus may be installed when you review this web site. Another problem is that pinterest.aot.im will redirect users’ target web pages to pinterest.aot.im or other random pages, therefore, users cannot get their intended searching results.


Some users have noticed that, the ads displaying to them are what users’ interested in. That is because pinterest.aot.im can record and collect users’ searching histories, keywords, cookies to take control of users’ searching habits and interests, then displays ads according to the information above. This is dangerous because users will input sensitive info such as bank account, credit card codes or email passwords in the computer, and these info will also be caught by pinterest.aot.im and spread to hackers for illegal purpose. Therefore, to protect your browser and personal information, you are suggested to remove pinterest.aot.im as soon as possible.

Screenshot of pinterest.aot.im


How Does Pinterest.aot.im Come to My Computer?


1. Pinterest.aot.im is bundled with programs on the Internet. When users download or update free programs from the Internet, it is installed together;
2. Infected movies, music or TV shows downloading can also take pinterest.aot.im into the computer;
3. Virus make use of the emails to spread themselves; thus, the spam email attachments can be a powerful distribution way;
4. Peer-to-peer net working sharing and unsafe portable devices plug-in can also bring in the pinterest.aot.im virus.


How Can I Stop Pinterest.aot.im?


Users have noticed that their computer can be infected even they have anti-virus in the computer. That is because it never comes alone, it comes with files and programs. Therefore, many anti-virus cannot figure out which files belong to pinterest.aot.im. If you have the same problem, manual remove can be a way to get rid of this annoying pinterest.aot.im.

Step 1- 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 2- Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from Pinterest.aot.im.

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 Pinterest.aot.im.

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 Pinterest.aot.im.

Step 3- 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 4- Show all hidden files

Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.



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

%documents and settings% \all users\ Pinterest.aot.im
%program files% Pinterest.aot.im.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}.lnk

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)





HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{random}
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe

Note: this is a complicated process to remove it manually. If you need help from experts, you are welcome to contact professional experts 24/7 online to get help.



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