What is Youndoo?
You may find a questionable search page called Youndoo in your browsers when a browser hijacker sneaks onto your operating system. This hijacker can make arbitrary modifications in your browser settings to make sure that you become exposed to Youndoo.com. This search page can show you potentially unreliable and harmful web content. While many users do not consider browser hijackers as a threat, you should know that they can be a source of security risks if you are not careful. Keeping this hijacker in your browsers could cause severe damage indirectly with time that includes slower Internet connection and PC performance as well as losing sensitive personal information. But when this malware infection emerges on your PC, you can be quite sure that there are other threats as well. We advise you to delete Youndoo as soon as possible. If you want to use a totally safe computer, you should not stop at this point. Unless you clean all the infections and potentially risky applications from your system, it will never be fully secure for you to use your PC.
Where does Youndoo come from?
This browser hijacker keeps the tradition of its peers and mostly travels the web in free software bundles. These packages can be quite dangerous to install because you may allow browser hijackers, adware programs, and potentially unwanted applications onto your system among others. These malware threats can cause a lot of headaches for you apart from being very annoying with the constant flow of third-party ads. It is possible that you have been looking for free files or programs to download and that is how you ended up on questionable websites. Schemers make sure that their malicious fake websites get ranked high in search engines so that they appear among the first few results. Hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting computer users land on such sites every day. That is why it is great business to promote third-party bundles on these pages to spread malware infections on the web.
It is also possible that an adware application managed to slither onto your computer previously and this infection displays corrupt ads that you click on. All in all, in order to infect your system with such a malicious bundle, you need to click on unsafe third-party ads no matter where they come from. We recommend that you always use official or reputable websites whenever you want to download free software or tools. But right now you should not hesitate to scan your PC with a reliable online malware scanner to detect all possible threats after you remove Youndoo from your system.
How does Youndoo work?
There is nothing unique or new about this browser hijacker as it simply follows the footsteps of its predecessors including dozensearch.com and yessearches.com. This hijacker may collect information about you and your browsing habits, which could be used to target you with customized content or share with third parties. Unfortunately, this can be exploited by cyber criminals whose only intent is to lure you to their malicious websites through carefully tailored ads or misleading links. Since this search page can provide you with modified results, you can never feel safe clicking on the displayed search results page even if it seems to come from Google itself. You should know that Youndoo redirects all your searches to a new tab and loads Google search results. Even though you think you are on a reliable and reputable page, we advise you to be extra careful. This page can be modified and contain potentially unreliable third-party ads and links injected by this infection. It is quite risky to click on such content since it can result in your being redirected to harmful websites operated by cyber criminals. This could end very badly for you. Criminals have a number of ways to trick you. They can even get hold of your bank account details without your noticing it. We recommend that you remove Youndoo right now if you do not want to become the next victim of online scams.
How do I delete Youndoo?
We have good and bad news for you. The good news is that this browser hijacker has an uninstaller that you can easily execute through Control Panel. The bad news is that it may not work properly, which means that it can leave some mess behind. For this reason, we have included instructions for you that include both the usual Control Panel application uninstallation process and the manual guide as well that is need to make sure that all the mess is gone. Once you are done with this, remember that there may be a number of other infections on board. If you do not wish to detect and eliminate them one by one manually, we suggest that you employ an up-to-date malware removal application. What could be more comfortable and effective than an automated security tool?
How to remove Youndoo from Windows
Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10
- Press Win+Q and enter uninstall a program. Press the Enter key.
- Click on the uninstaller and click Uninstall.
Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Press Win+R and type in Control Panel. Press OK.
- Open Uninstall a program.
- Click on the uninstaller and click Uninstall.
Windows XP
- Click the Start button and access Control Panel.
- Choose Add or Remove Programs.
- Click on the uninstaller and click Remove.
Manual Guide
- Tap Win+R and enter regedit. Press OK.
- Locate and delete the following registry keys with the “DisplayName” value name that has “Youndoo[random characters]” as value data:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{9BB328F8-6CAF-4181-BA0F-62563CE5CC87} (64-bit)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{9BB328F8-6CAF-4181-BA0F-62563CE5CC87} - Locate and remove the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\youndooSoftware (64-bit)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\youndooSoftware - Close the editor.
- Tap Win+E to launch File Explorer.
- Bin the following folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Plunasystagedom* (64-bit)
C:\Program Files\Plunasystagedom*
*The folder name can be random. It should be identical to the one provided in the Uninstall registry key. - Empty your Recycle Bin and reboot your system.
tested removal of Youndoo*
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