Satellite Gifts Toolbar Screenshot
Satellite Gifts Toolbar attaches itself to users’ Internet browsers without any consent, though it is high reputable web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox Mozilla, or Google Chrome, such hijack toolbar still has ability to exploit loopholes added on system to gradually degrade the security of the target machine thereby totally governing. Satellite Gifts Toolbar is identified as the browser hijacker, whose work is aimed at totally compromising web browser, modifying default Internet settings, redirecting default homepage, and replacing search engine with suspicious one in order for interfering with users’ online activities and seeking chances to steal users’ confidential data.
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Satellite Gifts Toolbar makes its appearance on Internet Browsers with a disguise of useful free download toolbar declares its contribution to a wide choice of available search engines, choosing from thousands of free apps for your browser, and sending most important news and announcements instantly. By listing such attractive functions, the Satellite Gifts Toolbar could be accomplishedly installed on those unwary users’ PCs easily. Once the hijack toolbar has been installed on one computer, it won’t delay any time to achieve its solitary goal- money with best efforts. Thus a plenty of troubles will inevitably happen.
Satellite Gifts Toolbar can redirect all users’ search result to its established malicious site, which is also referred to the so-called redirect virus. Similar to the FbDownloader hijack toolbar (Removal Tips), it mainly focuses on redirecting the default homepage and searching things to one suspicious site due to there display a variety of pop-ups like ads, coupons, and some promotion commercial or services with in-text to lure unwary victims to get trapped in their carefully crafted deceptive tactics. Those in-text pop-ups provided by the Satellite Gifts Toolbar virus can lead the victims to high-degree risk of malware propagation site to spread added computer infections as well.
Besides that, the Satellite Gifts Toolbar makers accessed in the victimized machine through backdoor opened by exploiting system vulnerabilities can purposely recommend some services or products according to the victims search interests to coax them into finishing online transaction. Meanwhile, the hijackers seize the chances to collecting confidential data including bank account, password. Moreover, the products offered by Satellite Gifts Toolbar just exist in name only, which means that all things displayed on the Satellite Gifts Toolbar site are non-existent. What you buy are only shadows without practical functioning. Therefore, don’t be taken in by such aggressive Satellite Gifts Toolbar when it appears on your web browser.
Note: It is highly recommended you remove the hijack toolbar from the victimized computers quickly in case of massive loss. You can ask for professional help by Live Chat with VilmaTech 24/7 Online Experts.
1. Click on the start button and click on Control Panel. If you are using Windows 8 you need move your mouse cursor or swipe to the exact lower left corner until the Desktop shortcuts menu appears, you then click on Control Panel.
(Windows 8)
2. In Control Panel page, click on Uninstall a Program. (If you are using Windows XP, you need click on Add/Remove Programs). See the reference screenshots as below.
3. Next it may take one minute to fully populate all programs you have installed. (Seen as below)
4. In the next window, you need scroll down and locate at malicious Satellite Gifts Toolbar. Later after that right click on the Satellite Gifts Toolbar and select on Uninstall/Change or Remove/Change Continue; If it is necessary you still need type in the required admin password.
5. The next steps are nothing out of ordinary just a few of clicks by the setup wizard and you can be through. When it finishes, you close the window.
6. Access to the local disk to find out the Satellite Gifts Toolbar files and delete them. You had better to show hidden files first so that you can remove all files. Remove Satellite Gifts Toolbar files you can refer as below.
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%Appdata%\roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
7. Delete the Satellite Gifts Toolbar registry entries. Press Windows + R keys and enter regedit in Run window, click Ok.
8. Access in Registry Editor window and delete related registry entries.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\run\
From this step you need check and repair hosts files. For Windows operating system (Window XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8), go to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\.
1. Backup the hosts files first. Locate at the Hosts file, it is a file named “Hosts” with no extension. You can see the reference screenshot.
2. Right-click on it and select Copy. Now, right-click in the clear space to the right of the Hosts file and select paste.
3. Double click the hosts file and open it in a text editor. As seen below screenshot.
4. Delete additional lines and save the hosts file.
5. Check the proxy settings. Start the Internet Explorer, click on separately click Tools, Internet options, and then Connections. Click on LAN settings to open the LAN settings menu, ensure to uncheck the use a proxy server as your LAN.
1. Open the Internet Explorer
2. Click on Tools on the top of the page and click on Manage Add-ons.
3. In the Manage Add-on pop-up window, you need click on first option Toolbars and Extensions, and then remove all things that associated with Satellite Gifts Toolbar.
4. As seen picture mentioned above, click on Search Providers, then find the redirect site and remove it.
5. Come back Tools, you need select on Safety and then click delete browsing history.
6. To delete all cookies, uncheck the Preserve Favorite Website Data box, check the box next to Cookies, and hit Delete.
1. Open Google Chrome. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar. Select Settings.
2. Click Show advanced settings.
3. In the “Privacy” section, click the Content settings button.
4. In the “Cookies” section, you can change the following cookies settings. Click all cookies and site data to open the Cookies and Other Data dialog.
5. To delete all cookies, click Remove all cookies at the bottom of the dialog.
6. Click the Chrome menu button on the browser toolbar, select Tools and then click on Extensions.
7. In the Extensions tab, remove the malicious Satellite Gifts Toolbar or other useless toolbars by clicking on the Recycle Bin of the same row.
1. Open Firefox browser. Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy.
2. Click “Remove individual cookies.”
3. In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies.” Remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button.”
4. To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button.”
5. Click Tools and select Add-ons (Ctrl+ Shift+ A).
6. On the Extensions and Plugin tabs search for add-ons about Satellite Gifts Toolbar and remove them.
7. Come back Tools again, this time you need click on “Clear Recent History” and you need clear all recent history.
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1. Click on the Start menu. Go to Control Panel and then click Network and Internet. Once in Internet Options page, click on the Programs tab, then select Set your default programs.
2. Locate the left programs bar, select Mozilla Firefox , then click Set this program as default. (If you want to set Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, you can select either of them).
3. You then still need change homepage back from the redirect site referred with Satellite Gifts Toolbar. Come back Tools again on the Internet Explorer and then select Internet Options. Hit General tab in the menu and set the homepage to a preferred domain or choose Use default.
4. If you are on Mozilla Firefox, to set default homepage you need click on the Firefox button and select option. Click on General tab and choose Restore to Default. To reset default search engine back from the malicious site related with Satellite Gifts Toolbar browser hijacker. Click on the inverted triangle in the search bar; choose Manage Search Engines; locate any suspicious search engines; hit Remove and OK; click the inverted triangle again and select a preferred search provider as default search engine from the menu.
5. For Google Chrome, to reset default search engine you need click on Manage search engine and set a desired search engine as your default search engine. You can remove any unwanted and suspicious search engine from the list.
Restart the Internet Browser to actively remove Satellite Gifts Toolbar.
Satellite Gifts Toolbar can overlap all search things with its own malicious sites, pop-ups, and other additions. Apart from replacing default homepage as conduit search modify your default search provider, it also performs automatic updates and hugely corrupts the infectious machine in the background. For instance, the slowdown, freeze down, times out, blue screen of death error, and even more total system failure can constantly happen. Typically, the online experience has been hugely degraded by the Satellite Gifts Toolbar. Even the online connection can be corrupt. Thus, the Satellite Gifts Toolbar should be removed ASAP to avert increasingly damages from troubling the victimized computers. From this point, the virus files and registry entries of the Satellite Gifts Toolbar should be entirely deleted so that you can accomplishedly rescue the infectious computer. Note: If you still need more help to terminate the hijack toolbar, Live chat with VilmaTech Online Experts.
