How to Get Rid of Connect814.com Popup from Your Computer?

How do I remove this site... connect814.com? Microsoft Security Essentials is apparently not able to do so.

What is Connect814.com?

Connect814.com is a phishing site that misleads computer users with deceptive advertisements. This annoying popup usually invades your computer after you visit corrupt sites or download infected programs to your computer. Connect814.com is also recognized as a browser redirect or hijacker that will compromise all the internet browsers installed on your computer. You should take measures to fix this problem in case it messes up your computer by doing these:

Modifying your browser homepage, new tab page, or other pages;
Adding suspicious search provider to your computer and replacing your default one;
Redirecting your web browsers to malicious domain that may contain malware;
Spreading deceptive advertisements such as fake video update or java update;
Loading a bunch of popups on your computer and slowing your networking;
Tracing your browsing activities with cookies and steal your sensitive personal data...

In short, Connect814.com has ability to interrupt your internet browsing and compromise the security of your system and privacy. Once you find this troublesome popup in your computer, you should take immediate actions to remove it.

How to Remove Connect814.com?

There are some suggestions on getting rid of this redirect or hijacker infection. You can first refer to the manual method to have a try. If you need better way to get rid of connect814.com, you are welcome to use SpyHunter.

Method 1: Manually Remove Connect814.com Popup
Method 2: Automatically Get Rid of Connect814.com Popup with SpyHunter

Method 1: Manually Remove Connect814.com

Step 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together and stop Connect814.com or browser processes in the Windows Task Manager.



 (Optional Step) Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):

Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then 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.

Step 2. Remove unwanted add-ons from web browser.

Internet Explorer

Go to Tools >> Manage add-ons >> Toolbars and Extensions >> Remove items related to Connect814.com.
Move to Search Providers >> select  items related to Connect814.com and remove it.

Google Chrome

Go to Customize and control Google Chrome (top right menu) >> Tools/Settings >> Extension >> Remove suspicious extensions

 

Reset your settings on On startup >> Set pages, Appearance >> Change, and Search >> Manage search engines...

 

 Mozilla Firefox

Open menu >> Add-on >> remove items related to Connect814.com

 

From Menu >> Option >> General. You can rewrite your home page URL or Restore to Default

Step 3. Restore home page and clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

• Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options"
• Click the "Under the Bonnet" tab, locate the "Privacy" section and Click the "Clear browsing data" button.
• Select "Delete cookies and other site data" and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

• Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
• Click "Remove individual cookies"
• In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"
• To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie button"
• To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies button"

Internet Explorer:

• Open Internet explorer window
• Click the "Tools" button
• Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"
• Tick the "cookies" box and then click “delete”
  

Step 4. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.



(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).



(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step 5. Delete related malicious registry entries.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )



Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

 Method 2: Get Rid of  Connect814.com with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is powerful anti-spyware/malware application. It is created to help inexperience computer users to get rid of nasty and stubborn malware including adware, browser hijacker, trojan, worm and may other viruses. There are many features in SpyHunter. You will never regret to remove malware and protect your PC with this application.

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This real-time malware protection and removal tool offers free malware scanner. You can buy the removal service to get rid of all the PC threats detected by it. It has powerful features that other free antivirus cannot offer. 

 

 

 

Optional Suggestion: Regcure Pro - a wonderful Registry Cleaner

If you find some registry errors, such as dll file errors in your computer, Regcure Pro will be a good choice to quickly and powerfully clean your windows registry and protect your system files.

(Reference) Watch Relevant Video to Remove Connect814.com 

 
 

Final Tip：

Connect814.com can cause a lot of troubles. Usually, the manual tips above may help your get rid of it. But if you fail, you can download powerful remover to get rid of it.