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Idle Buddy Virus Description

Idle Buddy Virus is an stubborn and tricky adware that inserts sponsored ads on your browser every time you surf the Internet. Once infected by Idle Buddy Virus, your browsers such as Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox will be hijacked immediately. When you open a website, lots of annoying pop up ads, text highlighted ads and banner ads will come up to interrupt your web browsing. From research, we find that antispyware and firewall are not able to block these unwanted ads generated by Idle Buddy Virus. Even though you reset or reinstall your browser, Idle Buddy Virus ads could always come back.
In most instances, Idle Buddy Virus spread via other viruses hiding in a vulnerable computer. Besides, some online sources such as free software downloading websites and porn websites are the second spreading way. Meanwhile, spam email will give a route for the Idle Buddy Virus virus to invade your system. At the early stage, Idle Buddy Virus just generates ads to bombard you, but if you do not get rid of it timely, more problems such as homepage hijacking and system freezing will happen, since Idle Buddy Virus helps browser hijackers and malware invade your PC silently.

Manually Remove Idle Buddy Virus from Windows OS

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Quick Menu

Step 1. Remove Idle Buddy Virus related plug-in, toolbar, add-on, extension from Chrome/Firefox/IE/Edge

Step 2. Uninstall Idle Buddy Virus related programs from your computer;

Step 3. Change system folder settings to show all hidden files;

Step 4. Find and delete Idle Buddy Virus related files in hidden folders;

Step 5. Find and remove Idle Buddy Virus related registry files ;

Step 6. Reset Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox and IE to remove Idle Buddy Virus related hijacker;

Step 1. Remove Idle Buddy Virus related extension from Microsoft Edge/ Chrome/Firefox/IE

Note – If you cannot find or remove a malicious extension, please read next step.

On Chrome

Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
Click Tools.
Select Extensions.
Click the trash can icon to delete extensions that may be related with Idle Buddy Virus.
A confirmation dialog appears, click Remove.

Click the menu button and choose Add-ons.
In the Add-ons Manager tab, select the Extensions panel.
Select add-ons that may be related with Idle Buddy Virus and click Remove button
Click Restart now if it pops up.

Open the IE, click the Tools button , and click Manage add-ons .
Click Toolbars and Extensions on left side of the window., and then select extensions that may be related with Idle Buddy Virus;
If the add-on can be deleted, you'll see the Remove option. Click Remove and then click Close. Otherwise click Disable button.

Click More (…) on the address bar and select Extensions

Select extensions that may be related with Idle Buddy Virus and click Uninstall button

Step 2. Uninstall Idle Buddy Virus related programs from your computer

1. Press Win + R keys at the same time to launch Run box >> Then input: "Control Panel" and click OK

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2. In Control Panel, click on Uninstall a program

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3. In the Programs and Features window, right click on apps that may be related with Idle Buddy Virus, then click Uninstall/Change. Then select Uninstall option.

Note – If you cannot find or remove malicious program, please continue the below steps.

Step 3. Change system folder settings to show all hidden files

Win 7 / Vista User

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Right-click the Windows Logo button and choose Open Windows Explorer.
Click Organize and choose Folder and Search Options.
Click the View tab, select Show hidden files and folders and then clear the checkbox for Hide protected system operating files.
Click Yes on the warning and then click OK.

Win 8 User Idle Buddy Virus removal for win 8

On your keyboard press the Windows + E keys.
Click the View tab.
Check File name extensions and Hidden items

Win 10 User

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Open This PC, click View and select Options.
In the Folder Options window, choose View, select Show hidden files, folders, and drives, and then click OK.

Step 4. Find and delete suspicious files in the locations listed below:

%Temp%\[malware name]

%AppData%\[malware name]

%LocalAppData%\[malware name]

%LocalAppData%\[malware name].exe

%CommonAppData%\[malware name]

%AllUsersProfile%random.exe

Note

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Step 5. Find and remove nasty registry files related with Idle Buddy Virus:

1. Open Registry Editor first:

Press Win [Windows key] + R on your keyboard.

Type regedit in the Run box and hit OK

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2. Find out and remove all harmful registry files that may be related with Idle Buddy Virus:

(Do Not Delete Any Registry File If You're Not Familiar with It)

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Note

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Step 6. Reset Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox and IE to remove Idle Buddy Virus

Reset Microsoft Edge

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1. Select More (…) on the address bar, then click Settings

2. click "Choose what to clear"

3. Select all the options and then click Clear button

Reset Chrome

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1. Open Chrome, then click "Customize and control Google Chrome" button >> click Settings

2. Scroll down to the bottom, then click on Show advanced settings button

3. After clicking on Show advanced settings button, scroll down to the bottom and click on Reset browser settings button

. A message box will pop up to inform that your browser settings will be restored to their original defaults, click Reset button when it appears:

Reset Firefox

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1. Open Firefox, then click on Firefox button, then Click on Help button, then Click on Troubleshooting I nformation

2. At the Troubleshooting Information page, click on Reset Firefox

3. A message box will pop up to let you confirm that you want to reset Firefox to its initial state, click Reset Firefox button when it appears:

Reset Internet Explorer

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1. Open Internet Explorer, then click on Tools, then click on Internet Options

2. On the Internet Options window: click on Advanced tab, then click Reset button

3. A message box will pop up to let you confirm that you want to reset all Internet Explorer Settings, click Reset button when it appears:

4. When the resetting process is done, you'll see this message box, click Close

5. You'll need to restart your Internet Explorer to complete the resetting process.

Tips for Threat Prevention

– Always running professional Antivirus or Antimalware and keep Firewall ON;

– Create System Restore Point regularly and back up important personal files;

– Avoid downloading free programs from unknown third party shared sites;

– Regularly update system via automatic system update;

– Don't access porn sites or similar sites which are potentially harmful;

– Avoid opening any attachments of unknown emails.