Remove Trotux.com

Trotux.com is one of the latest browser hijacker of AAA family. He looks and acts like other browser hijacker that belong to this family, i.e. He sneaks in computer without permission and then replaced the home page of the user. To make even in the browsers, he kidnapped the profiles of the browser. Of course he makes other changes, for example, he modified files that belong to browsers, and he adds his own directory keys to the system directory. Fortunately, this infection affected only two browsers, i.e. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Of course no good news is that for you, if your default browser is one of them. Unfortunately, it will be not easy to delete him due to the changes made by him in the system. We will help you but to make him disappear. All what you need to do is to read this article, which was written by the specialists at 2-delete-spyware.com.

If you take a closer look at Trotux.com, you will see that it looks like a proper search engine, i.e. It includes the search box on its home page, and he really delivers search results. Also allows the users separately making searches in categories such as images, news and videos, which should theoretically help them to find relevant information more quickly. We find it actually not surprising that Trotux.com is a reliable search provider, because we have encountered Yessearch.com and Hohosearch.com some time ago and know what to expect by hijackers of the AAA family. At the time of this writing, Trotux.com is not very popular; It is clear, however, that he has already infected many users from India, Indonesia and Russia. If you are one of these, hurry up and remove Trotux.com from your browsers, although this is not very easy, because this search engine quickly could harm your PC, by forwards you to a third-party site that contains malicious software. In most cases happened this, when users click on a sponsored link or a kind of advertisement, which will be shown alongside ordinary search results. Yes, you are right – Trotux.com provides users with commercial content.

Researchers have checked and found that these promises, the privacy policy of Trotux.com no ‘ personal information with third-parties to share, including its suppliers of regular or sponsored search results”(“share personal information with any third party, including its provider(s) of regular or sponsored search results”); It is clearly said that some non-personally identifiable details to the “provider of the sponsored results” will be provided. At first glance this information at all seems to be not important; However, you should know that some facts about you could still be exploited. So, it’s best not to disclose this non-personal details. Just be sure, that this information not in the hands of cyber criminals end up if you completely remove Trotux.com from your computer.

As you already know, Trotux.com makes some changes, as soon as he enters systems. Established first, that he kidnapped the profile for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and then be your own profile in %APPDATA%\Profiles and %LocalAppdata%\Profiles pushes to affect Mozilla Firefox and %LocalAppdata%\[random letters], so as to impair Google Chrome. Secondly, he modified the file prefs.js, which belongs to Mozilla Firefox and save the files preferences, preferences and Web data that belong to Google Chrome. Finally, he created still directory key, for example, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\ {EB52F1AB-3C2B-424F-9794-833C687025CF} and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\ {EB52F1AB-3C2B-424F-9794-833C687025CF} HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\ {EB52F1AB-3C2B-424F-9794-833C687025CF}. As soon as you remove the browser hijacker Trotux.com, the changes made by him will be no longer visible. Therefore, we recommend to postpone the removal no longer.

Before we get to remove a browser hijackers, let us explain how these will be disseminated to avoid in the future that they penetrate into the system. Specialists say that they get usually with other applications bundled together and therefore quite secretly in the computer. Trotux.com could also be penetrated in a bundle in your PC. However, this is not the only way, how it is spread. 2-delete-spyware.com researchers have also noticed that this infection can be placed by Ghokswa, which purports to be a proper browser. To be honest, a big chance, that you again will encounter a browser hijacker, if your computer is not protected, i.e. when no security tool is installed, which is why you should do this as soon as possible. Don’t forget to be careful on various file-sharing Web sites and download never suspicious software.

It will be not easy to remove the browser hijacker Trotux.com, because you must delete the directory key, restore modified files from it, and delete the profile created by him. Because many users find it really hard to get rid of these hijackers, we have prepared the manual removal instructions, and shared these with our readers. Scroll to the bottom for these instructions. If you are not an experienced computer user, you should scan your computer with an automatic scanner such as SpyHunter, instead of trying to get rid of this threat manually. You should also do this if Trotux.com does not disappear after you have removed it manually.

Remove from Trotux.com

Delete the directory key

1. Start run (win + R).
2. Type regedit.exe in the box and tap enter.
3. Walking To HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft and Remove you the valuehelp, which contains the URL of Trotux.com.
4. Remove You the key of {EB52F1AB-3C2B-424F-9794-833C687025CF} (he could have a different name) of these directories:

• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox
• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Firefox

Delete your profile from Trotux.com

Mozilla Firefox

1. Type Win + E.
2. Walking To %Appdata%\Profiles and Remove you the profile of Trotux.com.
3. Remove You the profile of %LocalAppdata%\Profiles.
4. Remove the file profiles.ini by %AppData%\Mozilla.

Google Chrome

1. Open You the Windows Explorer by tapping on Win + E.
2. Walking You to % LocalAppData % will find you have a folder with a random name, and delete you him.
3. Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User data.
4. Find You the same folder with the arbitrary names, for example reasspprermphshujerry.
5. Remove You him.

Restore the modified files

Mozilla Firefox

1. Start You the Windows Explorer.
2. Walking {You to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla Firefox user ID}.
3. Find You the prefs.jsfile.
4. Open They it using Notepad.
5. Find and Remove you the line user_pref(“browser.startup.homepage”, “http://Trotux.com”);
6. Save You the file.

Google Chrome

1. Press Win + E.

• Walking You to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.
• Find and Remove back up the files preferences, preferences and Web data.

! Note forget you not to restart your computer after the manual removal of Trotux.com!

Trotux.com Behavior

• Distributes itself through pay-per-install or is bundled with third-party software.
• Common Trotux.com behavior and some other text emplaining som info related to behavior
• Slows internet connection
• Shows Fake Security Alerts, Pop-ups and Ads.
• Trotux.com Deactivates Installed Security Software.
• Installs itself without permissions
• Redirect your browser to infected pages.
• Integrates into the web browser via the Trotux.com browser extension
• Changes user's homepage
• Trotux.com Connects to the internet without your permission
• Trotux.com Shows commercial adverts
• Modifies Desktop and Browser Settings.
• Steals or uses your Confidential Data

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Trotux.com effected Windows OS versions

• Windows 1021% 
• Windows 843% 
• Windows 720% 
• Windows Vista4% 
• Windows XP12% 

Trotux.com Geography

Eliminate Trotux.com from Windows

Delete Trotux.com from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start to open the menu.
2. Select Control Panel and go to Add or Remove Programs.
3. Choose and remove the unwanted program.

Remove Trotux.com from your Windows 7 and Vista:

1. Open Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Move to Uninstall a program
3. Right-click on the unwanted app and pick Uninstall.

Erase Trotux.com from Windows 8 and 8.1:

1. Right-click on the lower-left corner and select Control Panel.
2. Choose Uninstall a program and right-click on the unwanted app.
3. Click Uninstall .

Delete Trotux.com from Your Browsers

Trotux.com Removal from Internet Explorer

• Click on the Gear icon and select Internet Options.
• Go to Advanced tab and click Reset.
• Check Delete personal settings and click Reset again.
• Click Close and select OK.
• Go back to the Gear icon, pick Manage add-ons → Toolbars and Extensions, and delete unwanted extensions.
• Go to Search Providers and choose a new default search engine

Erase Trotux.com from Mozilla Firefox

• Enter „about:addons“ into the URL field.
• Go to Extensions and delete suspicious browser extensions
• Click on the menu, click the question mark and open Firefox Help. Click on the Refresh Firefox button and select Refresh Firefox to confirm.

Terminate Trotux.com from Chrome

• Type in „chrome://extensions“ into the URL field and tap Enter.
• Terminate unreliable browser extensions
• Restart Google Chrome.
• Open Chrome menu, click Settings → Show advanced settings, select Reset browser settings, and click Reset (optional).

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