How To Remove Blekko virus From PC

Complete Guideline To Delete Blekko virus

Blekko virus is a fraudulent search engine that is promoted as a real one, capable of providing enhanced search results and improving users’ online experience. However, in reality it is not more than just a potentially unwanted program which upon getting into the Windows computers, contributes tons of malicious activities in the background and wreaks havoc onto the machine. Soon after the intrusion, it replaces the search engine, home page and new tab URLs with blekko.com and acquires complete control over the entire browser. To prevent the settings from being restored, it also injects several malicious extensions, plug-ins, toolbars etc. on the browser.

Know More About Blekko virus:

Search engine promoted by Blekko virus only produces inorganic that are mixed with commercial contents and other forms of advertisements. This perilous hijacker floods your system screen with thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your web sessions very complex. These ads include sponsored links and when clicked, redirect users to affiliate domains where several third-party products and services are promoted. It makes commission for the developers with each redirection and according to the hits it gets on its adverts.

Ads by Blekko virus might also contain spiteful link and reroute victims to highly infectious web pages that are fully occupied with malicious contents. Visiting on such perilous sites may cause your system to get infected with other harmful threats. And thus, stay away from these ads no matter how eye-catching or useful they look. Similar to other unwanted programs, it is also able to track users’ online activities and collect important data such as search queries typed, URLs of visited sites, geolocation, IP addresses and so on.

Data gathered by Blekko virus is sold to third-parties for monetary purposes who use those stuffs for generating and displaying personalized advertisements. Furthermore, it can also steal your personal and confidential information relating to credit card details an expose them to cyber crooks for bad intentions. Scammers can misuse your sensitive data for deceptive purchases or transactions that might lead to huge financial loss. This hazardous parasite disables the working of all the running security services and Windows Firewalls and open backdoors for more nasty infections. And hence, an instant Blekko virus removal is highly required.

Quick Glance

Name: Blekko virus  

Type: Browser hijacker, Redirect virus, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Makes changes to default browser’s settings, Redirects users to affiliated sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online profits for the creators. 

Symptoms: Modified search engine, home page, new tab settings, regular appearance of annoying commercial contents, redirects to unknown domains, fake pop-up messages, identity theft. Users are enforced to search the Internet using fake search engines, slowness of infected system’s performance. 

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

How Does This Hijacker Enter Your System?

There are various illusive techniques used by PUP creators to spread their vicious applications. However, the most common one is software bundling. In this method, these unwanted programs are added to a single package together with regular software and manages to get installed secretly when people download/install the main application using the quick or recommended options. These settings don’t reveal the contents added to the download list and hence, they easily manage to settle down on the machine without users’ knowledge.

You should be very careful while downloading and installing freeware. Always select the Custom or Advanced settings to install program where you can opt-out the objects that you don’t want to be installed and pick only the main software. In case your computer is already infected with this hijacker, you must remove Blekko virus from the machine without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Blekko virus:

Remove the related items of Blekko virus using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Blekko virus issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Blekko virus) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Blekko virus removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Blekko virus still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Blekko virus plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Blekko virus removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Blekko virus (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.

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