Remove Xvidly Virus - How to Get Rid of Xvidly Permanently

Xvidly or Xvidly toolbar is a potential malware classified as browser hijacker that causes serious damages to your computer. It uses privacy and security breaches to exploit the vulnerabilities of the system and acts as a bridge for other malwares to invade into the PC and infect it further. Once it gets into the computer system it may load unnecessary useless files to slow-down computers functionality and causes further serious issues especially related to entrapment and invasion of privacy. If you install Xvidly toolbar, you will notice its toolbar on your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. The program may also change your homepage and default search provider. What’s more, it allows cyber criminal to acquire full access of computer system and disables your anti-virus software to remain hidden into the compromised system. So it is highly recommended to remove xVidly from your system if you haven’t installed it by yourself.

What harms does Xvidly do?

1. Xvidly infection get into systems without any permission;
2. Xvidly Center's reputation & rating online is terrible;
3. Xvidly may affect and modify compromised computers' important system files;
4. Xvidly may install other sorts of spyware/adware without computer users' knowledge.

Technical details for removing Xvidly 

A. Efficient Manual Removal Guide: 

Step 1. Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from Xvidly

For Windows Xp: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the Run box -> click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from Xvidly.

For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from Xvidly.

Step 2. 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';

Step 3. Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.

Step 4. Show all hidden files

Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 5. Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AppData%\CheckRun xVidly.exe

%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\ xVidly.lnk

%UserProfile%\Desktop\ xVidly.lnk

Step 6. Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:

Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\SearchScopes\{33BB0A4E-99AF-4226-BDF6-49120163DE86}

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\CheckRu xVidly Virus _uninstaller

B. Efficient Automatic Removal Guide: 

Step 1. Download SpyHunter, then double click on it to install it.

Step 2. Tick mark on Quick Scan then click on Scan Computer Now!

Step 3. When the scan done, click on Fix Threats.

Friendly Reminded: 
For the people who are not familiar with computer knowledge, the automatic removal is much more easier than the manual one. It is recommended to use SpyHunter when you face any malicious virus, it will remove it completely. Click here to download SpyHunter freely.