Youractualjournal.com Virus

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Youractualjournal.com

Youractualjournal.com is a junkware extension for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and other popular browsers and its main characteristic is that it constantly attempts to page-redirect the user to promoted sites. Youractualjournal.com is not as dangerous as a Trojan Horse or a Virus but it is still best if you uninstall it to keep your PC safe.

Youractualjournal.com

A page-redirecting Browser Hijacker named Youractualjournal.com has recently been reported to our “How to remove” team and a number of web users have requested our help to safely uninstall it and remove the search engine and the homepage that it has added to their Chrome, Firefox, Explorer and Safari browsers. That’s why, in this article, we will explain the specifics of this program, and will provide our readers with a detailed Removal Guide and a professional Youractualjournal.com removal tool for quick and automatic detection and removal of the offending app.

The Youractualjournal.com virus

Generally, the representatives of the Browser Hijacker category are programs like the Youractualjournal.com virus which are not that dangerous and do not share the malicious capabilities of threats such as Viruses, Ransomware or Trojans. Therefore, the Youractualjournal.com virus is considered as rather harmless program which cannot damage the system in a fatal way.

SUMMARY:

NameYouractualjournal.com
Type Browser Hijacker
Danger LevelMedium (nowhere near threats like Ransomware, but still a security risk)
Symptoms Typically, Browser Hijackers tend to spam the screen of the main browser with ads and place some homepage or search engine changes.
Distribution MethodSoftware bundling is a common method of distribution for most Browser Hijackers.
Detection Tool

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Please follow all the steps below in order to remove Youractualjournal.com!

How to remove Youractualjournal.com

  1. First, click the Start Menu on your Windows PC.
  2. Type Programs and Settings in the Start Menu, click the first item, and find Youractualjournal.com in the programs list that would show up.
  3. Select Youractualjournal.com from the list and click on Uninstall.
  4. Follow the steps in the removal wizard.

What we suggest you do first is, check the list of programs that are presently installed on the infected device and uninstall any rogue software that you find there:

  • From the Start Menu, navigate to Control Panel ->>> Programs and Features ->>> Uninstall a Program.
  • Next, carefully search for unfamiliar programs or programs that have been installed recently and could be related to Youractualjournal.com.
  • If you find any of the programs suspicious then uninstall them if they turn out to be linked to Youractualjournal.com.
  • If a notification appears on your screen when you try to uninstall a specific questionable program prompting you to just alter it or repair it, make sure you choose NO and complete the steps from the removal wizard.

Remove Youractualjournal.com from Chrome

  1. Click on the three dots in the right upper corner
  2. Go to more tools
  3. Now select extensions
  4. Remove the Youractualjournal.com extension
  • Once you open Chrome, click on the three-dots icon to open the browser’s menu, go to More Tools/ More Options, and then to Extensions.
  • Again, find the items on that page that could be linked to Youractualjournal.com and/or that might be causing problems in the browser and delete them.
  • Afterwards, go to this folder: Computer > C: > Users > *Your User Account* > App Data > Local > Google > Chrome > User Data. In there, you will find a folder named Default – you should change its name to Backup Default and restart the PC.
  • Note that the App Data folder is normally hidden so you’d have to first make the hidden files and folders on your PC visible before you can access it.

How to get rid of Youractualjournal.com on FF/Edge/etc.

  1. Open the browser and select the menu icon.
  2. From the menu, click on the Add-ons button.
  3. Look for the Youractualjournal.com extension
  4. Get rid of Youractualjournal.com by removing it from extensions

If using Firefox:

  • Open Firefox
  • Select the three parallel lines menu and go to Add-ons.
  • Find the unwanted add-on and delete it from the browser – if there is more than one unwanted extension, remove all of them.
  • Go to the browser menu again, select Options, and then click on Home from the sidebar to the left.
  • Check the current addresses for the browser’s homepage and new-tab page and change them if they are currently set to address(es) you don’t know or trust.

If using MS Edge/IE:

  • Start Edge
  • Select the browser menu and go to Extensions.
  • Find and uninstall any Edge extensions that look undesirable and unwanted.
  • Select Settings from the browser menu and click on Appearance.
  • Check the new-tab page address of the browser and if it has been modified by “Youractualjournal.com” or another unwanted app, change it to an address that you’d want to be the browser’s new-tab page.

How to Delete Youractualjournal.com

  1. Open task manager
  2. Look for the Youractualjournal.com process
  3. Select it and click on End task
  4. Open the file location to delete Youractualjournal.com
  • Access the Task Manager by pressing together the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys and then selecting Task Manager.
  • Open Processes and there try to find a process with the name of the unwanted software. If you find it, select it with the right button of the mouse and click on the Open File Location option.
  • If you don’t see a “Youractualjournal.com” process in the Task Manager, look for another suspicious process with an unusual name. It is likely that the unwanted process would be using lots of RAM and CPU so pay attention to the number of resources each process is using.
  • Tip: If you think you have singled out the unwanted process but are not sure, it’s always a good idea to search for information about it on the Internet – this should give you a general idea if the process is a legitimate one from a regular program or from your OS or if it is indeed likely linked to the adware.
  • If you find another suspicious process, open its File Location too.
  • Once in the File Location folder for the suspicious process, start testing all of the files that are stored there by dragging them to our free online scanner available below.
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    • If the scanner finds malware in any of the files, return to the Processes tab in the Task Manager, select the suspected process, and then select the End Process option to quit it.
    • Go back to the folder where the files of that process are located and delete all of the files that you are allowed to delete. If all files get deleted normally, exit the folder and delete that folder too. If one or more of the files showed an error message when you tried to delete them, leave them for now and return to try to delete them again once you’ve completed the rest of the guide.

    How to Uninstall Youractualjournal.com

    1. Click on the home button
    2. Search for Startup Apps
    3. Look for Youractualjournal.com in there
    4. Uninstall Youractualjournal.com from Startup Apps by turning it off
    • Now you need to carefully search for and uninstall any Youractualjournal.com-related entries from the Registry. The easiest way to do this is to open the Registry Editor app (type Regedit in the windows search field and press Enter) and then open a Find dialog (CTRL+F key combination) where you have to type the name of the threat. 
    • Perform a search by clicking on the Find Next button and delete any detected results. Do this as many times as needed until no more results are found. 
    • After that, to ensure that there are no remaining entries lined to Youractualjournal.com in the Registry, go manually to the following directories and delete them:
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Random Directory. 
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/Random
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/Random

    What is Youractualjournal.com?


    However, once installed on the computer, pieces like Youractualjournal.com immediately integrate with the main browser and begin to modify the homepage and the default search engine settings without asking for approval. Most commonly, the hijackers also place some new sponsored components, toolbars or redirect buttons in the browser which automatically redirect the users’ searches to some specific websites, offers, ads or promotional banners. All this is done with a purpose and that purpose is to advertise and to promote some third-party messages or websites. Basically, programs such as Youractualjournal.com operate as online advertising tools, which specialize in showing pay-per-click ads, pop-ups, sponsored messages, and advertising banners on the web pages that the web users are visiting while surfing the Internet.
    Their attempts to advertise, however, can be very annoying and aggressive for some of the web users who may experience frequent browsing interruptions, browser unresponsiveness and general slow-downs of the computer, which is getting bombarded with sponsored commercials. Therefore, it is not surprising that a lot of people prefer to uninstall the Browser Hijackers and remove their ads permanently. Moreover, some users fear that those programs may show pop-ups with malicious ads, that, if clicked upon, may redirect them to malicious websites where nasty viruses and threats like Trojans, Spyware, and Ransomware may lurk. Although a hijacker isn’t normally something supposed to put your PC in danger, it is definitely not advisable to keep an ad-generating application like this in your computer.


    How can you get infected with Youractualjournal.com (or with another browser hijacker)?

    A very common way you can accidentally install a Browser Hijacker is by downloading free software from the Internet (freeware or shareware) that has the hijacker added to it as a “bonus” feature. There are also different websites that distribute free downloads, that also promote this type of programs in their download managers, so if you have downloaded any programs from such a website, you have to pay special attention to the installation process because, if you don’t review the steps of the installation options, you can end up installing some potentially unwanted software on the computer. Programs like Youractualjournal.com and Captchafair.top may often be found under the advanced/custom setup settings where they may be marked as “recommended” or “bonus” additions to the main program that you are installing. To keep them away, simply unmark them from the menu or, if you have already installed them by mistake, just use the removal guide below to quickly uninstall them.

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    About the author

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    Brandon Skies

    Brandon is a researcher and content creator in the fields of cyber-security and virtual privacy. Years of experience enable him to provide readers with important information and adequate solutions for the latest software and malware problems.

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