How to Remove/Delete Trovi.com Redirect with Manual Steps

What is Trovi.com?

Trovi.com currently meddles with Internet users’ regular online routines by technically generating website traffic on the monitor, regardless of which browser they are using, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Trovi.com has been popularly considered as an untrustworthy website categorized as a PUP or browser hijack virus, capable of carrying out damaging activities on the computer that it affects. Most commonly, Trovi.com browser hijack virus may often be propagated onto a user’s computer by making full of various social engineering tactics. To be specific, Trovi.com infection may be distributed by malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, which are capable of dropping the virus onto a compromised machine. The driver-by-download often happens surreptitiously. User may also get infected with the threat by navigating to a malign link embedded in a spam email. According to some Internet user’s feedback, they may notice the existence of Trovi.com browser hijack virus after downloading some applications from distrusted Internet resources.

Upon being installed, Trovi.com website may keep popping up on the screen as assaulted web browser’s default homepage, start-up page or error page (404). When Internet users do search on their search engines such as Yahoo, Google or Bing, they may be redirected to suspicious domains carrying commercial or limited materials. While running in the affected computer, Trovi.com threat may analyze Internet user’s search history and habits so that to display similar pop-up advertisements in web browser, such as banners, ads revenue or coupons. Security experts have classified Trovi.com as a PUP (potentially unwanted program) because it may be bundled with additional malware that is able to make further results on compromised machine. This may be involved with Trojan, worm, keylogger or other unclear subjects. If this is the case, not only users’ computer but also their privacy will be at risk. And it is suggested to get rid of Trovi.com infection as long as being noticed of abnormal symptoms on the computer.

How to Recognize a Browser Hijack Virus

• Alters the Default Search Page of Browser
• Changes the Default Home Page of the Browser
• Browser Hijacker Virus Obstructs Reputable Online Resources
• Provides Many Links to Advertisement Web Pages

How to Remove Trovi.com Hijack Virus

In some cases, many Internet users may directly notice the presence of Trovi.com while browsing online. However, when they have a full scan with their installed antivirus applications, they may fail to pick up any traces of the virus. The original reason is that Trovi.com browser hijack virus can always hide its components in kernel system upon its installation. This will protect itself from the auto removal by antivirus effectively. In this case, you may consider the helpful manual removal to get rid of Trovi.com infection entirely. Here is how:

1.    Reset web browser. (Take IE as an example)

• Click on Tools > Internet Options.
• Cick on the Connections tab in Internet Options window.
• Click on the LAN settings button.
• Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.

2.    Open Windows Task Manager to end up the process of Trovi.com.

3.    Navigate to local disk and then clean up all its related files.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\giner.exe

4.    Open Registry Editor and get rid of all its registry entries.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run |Regedit32

Manual removal is a high-level process, if you haven’t sufficient expertise on doing that, it's recommended to ask help from a VilmaTech 24/7 Online Computer Expert here, who will be glad to help you out of trouble.