Exportspring.com
Exportspring.com is what is widely known as a browser hijacker that can infect popular web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. Once integrated with your browser, Exportspring.com will typically start to spam you with annoying ads and page redirects to sponsored web locations.
If you want to locate, and remove the source of the irritating advertisements, and the page redirects that have been disturbing you lately, you’ve come to the right page. Our “How to Remove” site contains useful instructions to assist you with successfully removing the unwanted programs and malicious computer threats even if you are not a very experienced user.⠀In the next lines, we will focus on a new browser hijacker app called Exportspring.com. This program is not a serious danger to your computer, but it could be very irritating with its ads, pop-ups, banners, and automatic page-redirects, that land you on different sponsored pages. Exportspring.com will typically flood your main browser (be it Firefox, Chrome, Safari or another browser) with ads, but fortunately, the instructions in the removal guide below will show you how to completely uninstall Exportspring.com and restore the original homepage and the search engine of your choice, in case they have been replaced without your approval.
The Exportspring.com Virus
The most obvious symptom that your browser has been hijacked by Exportspring.com is that the program may replace your homepage URL, or the main search engine with predefined ones. These changes can result in a steady stream of Exportspring.com ads, and redirects to sponsored websites every time you start a new browsing session.
You may be constantly getting interrupted by banners, pop-up boxes, sponsored links, new tabs, and similar advertising materials.
This is exactly what a typical browser hijacker can do while in your system. Such software can also collect information about your web searches, and try to match them with suitable offers, and pay-per-click ads. Finding ads that fit your interests, and searches can be useful in some cases, especially if you can get a good deal. However, many web users often see this activity as annoying, because it can effectively decrease the quality of their browsing experience. Also, if some misleading advertisements or links redirect you to unsafe web pages, there is also a certain risk of bumping into some internet threats such as Trojans or Ransomware.
How is it possible to install a browser hijacker on your PC?
In most cases, programs such as Exportspring.com, Smart Captcha Solve, Humisnee are installed by default, along with some other, more desirable software. They don’t sneak into your PC like viruses or malware such as Ransomware, and Trojans, and, luckily, can’t corrupt your computer, spy on you, steal your passwords, encrypt your documents or blackmail you. In fact, you can easily stop them from becoming part of your system by choosing the right settings from the installation wizard with which they are bundled.
Most people don’t pay close attention to these settings, though, and they usually go for the standard/ fast setup, and ignore the installer’s advanced/ customized options. And this is exactly where you need to click in order to prevent installing potentially unwanted programs by default. Just look at the customizable settings of any software installer, and remove the programs you don’t want by unchecking their checkboxes. Since you already have Exportspring.com in your system, however, you’ve most likely skipped the advanced setup settings when you have had to take advantage of them, and now will have to follow the steps below to uninstall the unwanted program.
SUMMARY:
| Name | Exportspring.com |
| Type | Browser Hijacker |
| Detection Tool |
Remove Exportspring.com Virus
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:
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.
- Right-click on the Network Adapter you are using —> Properties —> Internet Protocol Version 4 (ICP/IP), click Properties.
- The DNS line should be set to Obtain DNS server automatically. If it is not, set it yourself.
- 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 Exportspring.com 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 Exportspring.com from Firefox:
Open Firefox, click 
——-> Add-ons —-> Extensions.
Remove Exportspring.com 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!
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