hao.169x.cn Complete Removal Guide - Get Rid of hao.169x.cn Homepage

"So when I started my PC (Windows 7) up today and used google chrome something strange happened. When I open a new tab, it goes to my new tab page, then it gets redirected to hao.169x.cn?p=(Random letters), which then redirects to http://hao.123.com/”

"I have set my home page to the default one but each time I open a new tab the browser go to: hao.169x.cn?publisher=W3i&dpid=W3i&co=GB&range=73&searchtype=nt&isid=9860."

Problem with hao.169x.cn, have you ever heard of it? If you have the same problem, please read more here to get more information.

Browser keeps going to hao.169x.cn

Hao.169x.cn is not accepted by many computer users as it will start to modify the settings of browsers. This search engine is a safe web search that offers a single source to search the Web, images, audio, video, and news from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and many more search engines.
hao.169x.cn has special relationship with a famous Chinese browser hijacker that called Hao.123.com. If Hao.169x.cn getting inside, each time you open your web browsers, you will be redirected to its own sites and then switch to s Hao.123.com immediately.

Hao.169x.cn can show a lot of popup ads when they open the web browsers. These ads are about commercial that shows on the webpage which take up the whole screen. Its main aim is to boost traffic and generate pop up ads to make money.

Hao.169x.cn can be installed on the target computer by many different ways. Hao.169x.cn search can be bundled with freeware which users may think them as very useful ones for their system and try to install, during the installation, it can be come along.

Guide to eliminate hao.169x.cn permanently

Method one: Automatically get rid of hao.169x.cn

Method two: Manually Remove hao.169x.cn

Method one: Automatically get rid of hao.169x.cn

To remove hao.169x.cn from your PCs, it is recommended to Download and install SpyHunter to detect and remove hao.169x.cn. SpyHunter is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using SpyHunter you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

 Step 1. Download SpyHunter by clicking the following download link:

Step 2. Double-click on the downloaded file. If asked to allow program to make changes to this computer, click “Yes” button.

Step 3. In this step, please accept the Licence Agreement and click “Next >” button.

Step 4. After the definition database is downloaded, system scan will automatically start.

Step 5. Remove hao.169x.cn and all other threats detected by SpyHunter.

 

Method two: Manually Remove hao.169x.cn

Step one: Stop hao.169x.cn running processes in the Task Manager.

Step two: disable any suspicious startup items that are made by hao.169x.cn.

Click Start menu ; click Run; type: msconfig in the Run box; click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step three: remove hao.169x.cn from browsers

For Google Chrome

 1. In the displayed URL field, type in chrome://extensions

2. Take a look at the provided extensions and take care of those which you find unnecessary (those related to hao.169x.cn) by deleting it. If you do not know whether one or another must be deleted once and for all, disable some of them temporarily.

3. Then, restart Chrome.

4. Optionally, you may type in chrome://settings in URL bar, move to Advanced settings, navigate to the bottom and choose Reset browser settings.

Step four: show hidden files and folders and delete harmful files of hao.169x.cn

Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Delete all the following files:

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

Step five: open Registry Editor to delete all the registries added by hao.169x.cn

 Guide: 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_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ BrowserSafeguard \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0

Note: Manually removal hao.169x.cn is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you have not sufficient expertise on doing that, you may face risk of damaging the computer. In this circumstance, you are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove hao.169x.cn for you easily and quickly. Furthermore, you use Spyhunter to clean up unwanted files and optimize the computer.