How to Get Rid of Key-find.com Pop-up Ads

Have you noticed numerous pop-ups from Key-Find.com page while you’re surfing the internet? If so, it seems that your computer is infected with some adware parasite which has intimate relationship with Key-Find.com. It has been reported by many reputable tech companies that Key-Find.com belongs to a browser hijacker virus which will modify the default browser settings to replace your search engine with Key Find Search. It often comes bundled with some unsafe freeware which promotes Key-Find.com and wants to make money using ads within the search result.

Once this Key-Find.com gets added onto your machine, the default search engine and homepage for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox will be replaced by Key-Find.com. By doing this hijacking the Key-Find.com website always pops up when you open the browser, even as you replaced your default homepage with a website of your choice. It’s a very nifty and nasty method of forcing to drive web-traffic to there website. Please be careful what you install on your computer. And it’s wise to always read the Terms and Agreements before installing software on your computer. Do never click too fast thru the installation process [Next] button of software as you will agree to software you might not want to install. If you’re being disturbed by Key-Find.com redirect, you should be cautious and take effective measures to eradicate it completely and quickly.

Common symptoms of Key-find.com

a. Unfamiliar and questionable advertisements and fake alerts keep popping up on your screen.

b. Your PC system performance is too poor and your system works extremely slowly like a snail.

c. Once compromised, your PC makes for frequent freezing and system crash.

d. Unwanted malicious applications run in your PC.

e. All your search results specified by Google Chrome are redirected to unwanted and irritating ones. 

Key-find.com removal instructions step by step

Before performing the manual removal of Key-find.com  reboot your computer and before Windows interface loads, press F8 key constantly. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.

1. Launch the Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time, search for Key-find.com processes and right-click to end them.

2. Open Control Panel in 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.

3. Tap Windows+R keys together to pop up the Run box, type in regedit and hit OK to open Registry Editor; then find out the following Key-find.com registry entries and delete:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ” ”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegistryTools” = 0

4. Get rid of the listed files created by Key-find.com:
%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Random.exe
%AppData%\result.db

Automatic removal tool 

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware, etc. It is important to notice that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step 1. Click the Download icon to install SpyHunter in your PC.


Step 2. After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.


Step 3. Choose Select all>Remove to get rid of all the threats on your PC.

Note: To completely remove it, we need to find out the process, files and registry entries of the virus. If you haven't sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, dll files and registry entries, it is not recommended to delete the infections by hand. Because any pivotal system files are removed, you cannot log in Windows at all. To get out the trouble immediately, it is recommended to ask help from Spyhunter.