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Tinyurl4.ru

The main task of the Tinyurl4.ru application is to bombard your browser with annoying ads and commercial offers and prompt you to visit some third-party sites. By doing this, Tinyurl4.ru actually promotes certain pages and brings traffic to them in exchange for a small fee for its creators, which is usually paid on a pay-per-click basis.

If hundreds of ads, banners, pop-ups and redirect links have recently taken over your main browser, then let us help you solve this problem quickly and easily. These advertisements are not generated by some nasty virus, a Trojan Horse or a Ransomware infection.

The Tinyurl4 Virus

The application called the Tinyurl4 virus, which is a representative of the browser hijacker software category. The Tinyurl4 virus can install some potentially unwanted components (such as new search engine, a new homepage URL, a new toolbar or some shortcut buttons to certain sites) inside your main browser that may cause some other unpleasant consequences.

For instance, you may be forced to use the imposed search engine instead of the one you prefer and may have to constantly deal with its sponsored search results and automatic page-redirects to different partnering sites. Additionally, you may start to experience browsing disturbances such as sudden freezing of the screen, browser unresponsiveness, system sluggishness and sudden crashes which may lead to loss of information, interruption of the browsing sessions and a lot of irritation. Although these activities are not related to any criminal actions or direct harm to your computer, we still advise you to not keep applications like Tinyurl4.ru, Go go Tech or Main Captcha Top on your PC for long and think about how to safely remove it and uninstall its imposed changes. The main reason is, in its attempts to advertise, such software may redirect you to various unfamiliar web locations, some of which may hide dangerous viruses, and if you accidentally stumble upon a real Trojan, a Ransomware or a Spyware infection, it will take much more time and energy to remove those from the computer than it would for a simple ad-generating application.

Tinyurl 4

Since Tinyurl 4 is not a virus, you can remove this potentially unwanted application without facing any major negative consequences for your system. Still, in case that you have already tried to uninstall Tinyurl 4 from your browser unsuccessfully, you should know that the effective removal process of a browser hijacker is a bit different than the removal of a regular program and you may need to follow some specific steps in order to do it properly.

You can get rid of Tinyurl4.ru if you carefully follow the instructions provided by our “How to remove” team. There is also another alternative – you can choose from a wide range of professional removal tools (such as the one included in the guide above) which can do the job automatically for you. After a full system scan, the software we’ve linked in our guide will have detected the browser hijacker components in your system and will then help you with their removal. Also, such security applications can provide real-time protection against malicious attacks that you may get exposed to on the Internet.

SUMMARY:

Remove Tinyurl4.ru WhatsApp Virus

To try and remove Tinyurl4.ru quickly you can try this:

1. Go to your browser’s settings and select More Tools (or Add-ons, depending on your browser).
2. Then click on the Extensions tab.
3. Look for the Tinyurl4.ru extension (as well as any other unfamiliar ones).
4. Remove Tinyurl4.ru by clicking on the Trash Bin icon next to its name.
5. Confirm and get rid of Tinyurl4.ru and any other suspicious items.

If this does not work as described please follow our more detailed Tinyurl4.ru removal guide below.

If you have a Windows virus, continue with the guide below.

If you have a Mac virus, please use our How to remove Ads on Mac guide.

If you have an Android virus, please use our Android Malware Removal guide.

If you have an iPhone virus, please use our iPhone Virus Removal guide

Some of the steps will likely require you to exit the page. Bookmark it for later reference.

Reboot in Safe Mode (use this guide if you don’t know how to do it).

WARNING! READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING!

Press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC at the same time and go to the Processes Tab (the “Details” Tab on Win 8 and 10). Try to determine which processes are dangerous. 

Right click on each of them and select Open File Location. Then scan the files with our free online virus scanner:

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After you open their folder, end the processes that are infected, then delete their folders. 

Note: If you are sure something is part of the infection – delete it, even if the scanner doesn’t flag it. No anti-virus program can detect all infections. 

Hold together the Start Key and R. Type appwiz.cpl –> OK.

You are now in the Control Panel. Look for suspicious entries. Uninstall it/them.

Type msconfig in the search field and hit enter. A window will pop-up:

Startup —> Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer or otherwise look suspicious.

Hold the Start Key and R –  copy + paste the following and click OK:

notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts

A new file will open. If you are hacked, there will be a bunch of other IPs connected to you at the bottom. Look at the image below:

If there are suspicious IPs below “Localhost” – write to us in the comments.

Open the start menu and search for Network Connections (On Windows 10 you just write it after clicking the Windows button), press enter.

1. Right-click on the Network Adapter you are using —> Properties —> Internet Protocol Version 4 (ICP/IP), click  Properties.
2. The DNS line should be set to Obtain DNS server automatically. If it is not, set it yourself.
3. Click on Advanced —> the DNS tab. Remove everything here (if there is something) —> OK.

• After you complete this step, the threat will be gone from your browsers. Finish the next step as well or it may reappear on a system reboot.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut —> Properties.

NOTE: We are showing Google Chrome, but you can do this for Firefox and IE (or Edge).

Properties —–> Shortcut. In Target, remove everything after .exe.

  Remove Tinyurl4.ru from Internet Explorer:

Open IE, click   —–> Manage Add-ons.

Find the threat —> Disable. Go to  —–> Internet Options —> change the URL to whatever you use (if hijacked) —> Apply.

 Remove Tinyurl4.ru from Firefox:

Open Firefox, click    ——-> Add-ons —-> Extensions.

Remove Tinyurl4.ru from Chrome:

Close Chrome. Navigate to:

 C:/Users/!!!!USER NAME!!!!/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data. There is a Folder called “Default” inside:

Rename it to Backup Default. Restart Chrome.

Type Regedit in the windows search field and press Enter.

Inside, press CTRL and F together and type the threat’s Name. Right click and delete any entries you find with a similar name. If they don’t show up this way, go manually to these directories and delete/uninstall them:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—–Random Directory. It could be any one of them – ask us if you can’t discern which ones are malicious.
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—Microsoft—-Windows—CurrentVersion—Run– Random
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—Microsoft—Internet Explorer—-Main—- Random

If the guide doesn’t help, download the anti-virus program we recommended or try our free online virus scanner. Also, you can always ask us in the comments for help!