How to Remove l.yimg.com - l.yimg.com Uninstall Guide

Does l.yimg.com keep popping up? Can you stop it? Did you install it by yourself? Let’s go to learn more about l.yimg.com and a guide to remove it. 

What Is l.yimg.com?

l.yimg.com is a browser hijacker virus which acts as a platform to display various kinds of commercial advertisements including clothes, computer optimizer programs, electronic products, or coupons codes. While users are not suggested to click those ads and links because you will be led to unfamiliar web pages, and other infections and viruses may be injected to the compromised computer in this way.

l.yimg.com comes into your computer with free download from the Internet. It can also be downloaded when users browse the hacked web sites or spam email attachments. It drops malicious files and registry entries to your computer. Malicious toolbar and add-ons will be installed to your popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox. That is why users cannot stop l.yimg.com pop-up. Homepages will be replaces by l.yimg.com and default search engines will be changed as well.

What l.yimg.com Will Do to My Computer?

1. l.yimg.com comes with other free downloads from the Internet sneakily;

2. l.yimg.com pops up as your homepage, and displays users many advertisements;

3. l.yimg.com changes default browser settings;

4. l.yimg.com may inject other infections to your computer;

5. l.yimg.com drops malicious files and registry entries to your computer;

How to Remove l.yimg.com Pop-up?

Solution one: manually remove l.yimg.com from your PC.

Step1: Go to Task Manager with Alt+Ctrl+Delete and stop its process.

Step2. Remove l.yimg.com files, search the related files:

%StartupFolder%\wpbt0.dll
%USERPROFILE%\temp\L.yimg.com.exe
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\*.*
%ProgramFiles%\Protected Search\ProtectedSearchSettings.exe

Step3. Remove l.yimg.com registries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ L.yimg.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\L.yimg.com \DisplayName L.yimg.com

Step 4. Reset Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer. Click on the Tools menu and then select Internet Options. In the Internet Options window click on the Advanced tab. Then click on the Reset, check Delete personal settings. Then click Reset.

Step 5. Reset IE Home Page
Select Start Menu > Control Panel > Internet Options > General>>Type your preferred home page's URL>>Click "Use Default," "Apply," and "OK."

Video Guide to Remove l.yimg.com

Solution two: automatically remove l.yimg.com with SpyHunter.

Step one: Click on the icon below to download SpyHunter on your computer.

Step two: Install SpyHunter step by step, according to the pictures of installation.

Step three: In order to find out the suspicious files, you have to do full scanning, and then terminate all detected malicious files.

Step four: You can reboot your computer, and then do a full scanning one more time to check if all the threatening files have been deleted.

Tips: Although deleting l.yimg.com in a manual way is available, it is more complicated than automatic way with SpyHunter. What’s more, manual removal requires more specialized skills. So if not familiar with the operation of computer, you are strongly advised to use automatic removal with SpyHunter. SpyHunter, a powerful antivirus programs,  can run a variety of troubleshooting and diagnostic tests on your computer in order to detect almost all known PC threats and errors.

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