Visualbee Toolbar Description
Visualbee is a malicious toolbar which is installed to the browsers sneakily. It comes to the target computer without any of users’ permission, and causes many problems for users. Visualbee hijacks the browsers whenever users open their browsers. All browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can be affected. Once infected, users will be redirected to http://visualbee.com page, and it replaces the homepages of each browsers. Sometimes searching results can be redirected to this visualbee page, too. Visualbee toolbar that installed on the browsers can explain why your homepages are changed. What is more, malicious files, registry entries, and browser add-ons are injected to the computer at the same time.
What Visualbee wants to do is not only to change the default browser settings, but also to collects users’ personal information. Visualbee reviews the searching histories and cookies, and monitors users’ searching keywords, in-put information, and online activities. Users’ personal information may be revealed to hackers or designers of the malicious toolbar. In this perspective, users have to remove Visualbee as soon as possible once infected.
What Visualbee Will Do to My Computer?
1. Visualbee invades the target computer forcibly;
2. Visualbee causers browser hijacker and webpage redirection problems;
3. Visualbee drops malicious files, registry entries and browser add-ons to the target computers;
4. Visualbee changes the default browser settings;
5. Visualbee degrades the infected computer function;
6. Visualbee may reveal users’ personal information to hackers;
Guide to Uninstall Visualbee Toolbar
Method one: manually stop Visualbee from the infected computer.
Remove Visualbee Toolbar from Control Panel
1. Find the “start” button on the lower left corner of your monitor, and then click it.
2. Find and double click the button “Control Panel”.
3. Find “Add / Remove Program” icon in the control panel, and then double click it.
4. When the windows pop up, find Visualbee icon in the list, and then select it to start uninstalling it from your computer by clicking “Remove”.
Reset your DNS:
Set the DNS as Google’s public DNS: Click Start menu >> Control Panel >> View network and tasks >> change adapter settings >> right click the net work adapter you are using (LAN or WLAN) >> properties >> double click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) >> use the following DNS server addresses >> set the Preferred DNS server as 8.8.8.8
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';
Launch Windows Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc, search for Visualbee processes and right-click to end them.
Click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by Visualbee:
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallStatIE.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarversion.xml
%UserProfile%\Application Data\[random digits]\[random digits].cfg
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type regedit in Run box and click “OK” to proceed. When Registry Editor is open, search and get rid of the following registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ VisualBee Toolbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ VisualBee \UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
Video Guide to Remove / Uninstall Visualbee
Method two: automatically remove Visualbee with SpyHunter.
Step 1. Download SpyHunter by pressing the button below.
Step 2. Install SpyHunter on your computer automatically.
Step 3. Run a full scanning to detect every threatening files and remove them completely.
Step 4. Reboot your computer to make it effect.
Attention: Although we offer two available methods for you to remove Visualbee, manual removal is too complicated, after all. If you are not accomplished in computer operation, manual removal method is not advised to be taken. Otherwise, further damage will be done to the infected computer. So we strongly recommend SpyHunter to you because SpyHunter can help you detect and remove kinds of malicious viruses automatically, which is simpler, faster and more effective.
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