What is InfoHD - How to remove InfoHD?

What do you know about InfoHD

InfoHD is an adware or PUP (potentially unwanted program) which will inject browser extension or toolbar on your browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. This adware is created by the cyber criminals to display ads and coupons on your browser to generate web traffics. This adware can get into the computer through free downloads, peer-to-peer file, hacked websites with games and porn sites, spam e-mail attachment and other third parties.

InfoHD infection aims to attack web traffic and increase sales by generating various pop-up ads and coupons on the webpage you are visiting, especially commercial websites such as Walmart, Amazon, Ebay, etc. InfoHD will generate additional files to the system to spend out system memory to make the computer run slowly. Your webpage will be loading slowly with a lot of picture and deals showing on your computer.

InfoHD will also change registry entry and add executable files to the target computer. The additional files will run automatically at the background to take up a lot of system recourse and high CPU. InfoHD will take use of the loopholes of the system to bring in other computer threats. It will also keep trace of your personal such as financial data, login ID and password of online bank account, email address and phone number for malicious activities. It is not safe to keep InfoHD on your computer, you should remove it as soon as possible.

Dangers of InfoHD

It displays lots of annoying commercial advertisements;
It compromises the browser and read/modify/adds browser cookies;
It may come with spyware or other privacy-invasive software;
It connects to the Internet in order to request data and download files;
It will bring in other computer threats to compromise your computer security.

Two effective methods to remove InfoHD permanently from your computer system

1. Remove InfoHD manually.

2. Remove InfoHD by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Detail instruction to remove InfoHD

Method one: Manually remove InfoHD

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. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 3. Delete related malicious registry entries.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 4- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”

Method two: Automatically get rid of InfoHD with Spyhunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step two: Install Spyhunter.
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.