Redirect to l.yimg.com? How to Block http://l.yimg.com Keeps Coming up?

If you open the Yahoo or Yahoo.mail, a pop-up window with words “Waiting for l.yimg” as a result, you never get accessed to Yahoo? The address of http://l.yimg.com keeps popping on your when you are connecting to the web? Don’t know how to block l.yimg.com pop-ups? Read more here.

What the Heck of l.yimg.com is? Why l.yimg.com pop-up Keeps Coming up?

Recently, we Teesupport PC Help centre has received many customers who have been attacked by l.yimg.com things. Here are some examples collected by our stuff.

“When I try to go to Yahoo.com or Yahoo.mail, I see that it is trying to access another site: l.yimg.com. But end result is I cannot access Yahoo anything. I am a novice at computer virus-spyware-adware detection and don't know what to do.”

“If I load it in Internet Explorer or on my Droid 4, “Waiting for l.yimg” pop-up comes up right away. If I ping it from the command prompt, it responds promptly.”

“Safari wouldn't load yahoo and stalled when trying to pull info from l.yimg.com. So I installed Firefox. And it worked...for about 3 weeks. Then it quit. The same thing happens. So I installed Chrome. No access. 3 browsers, same machine, no access with the "connecting to l.yimg.com" flag in the corner.”

After seeing these cases, we can know that l.yimg.com mainly attacks users who use Yahoo browser. Many computer victims claim that if they try to open Yahoo.com or Yahoo.mail, a loading page appears with words like “transferring data from l.ymig.com” or “Waiting for l.yimg”

Mostly, users need to wait several minutes to load a page, and sometimes they may message “this page not responding” and they fail to access the Yahoo.com site. In some cases, victims may see l.yimg popups shown when they want to visit certain sites, the pop-up windows keep hanging on the corner of the screen to state that needs to wait for l.yimg.com to load. In such case, you are not able to access the intended sites. In addition, it can be easy to corrupt the original browsers and slow down the speed of the system.

Basically, we can classify L.yimg.com as a kind of browser hijacker that can be installed on all brands of internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Sarafi or others (especially Yahoo). Once picked up this redirect, it will modify the default settings of the browsers and hijack the homepage and start-up search. As the attackers, you may see your homepage has been changed into http://l.yimg.com. Each time they start to search on the browsers, ling.com comes up which cannot block at all. This hijacker always uses tracking cookies to gather victims’ information including logon account and bank account, IP address, email address, personal browsing traces and so on. In such case, you are recommended to get rid of this infection from your PC.

The Image of http://l.yimg.com browser hijacker

What l.yimg.com does on your PC?

1, it is nasty and stubborn browser hijacker that can be installed on the computer slightly.

2, this hijacker can attack all brands of internet browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome, Bing, especially Yahoo.

3, it can modify the settings of browsers and change the default start-up page and search into http://l.yimg.com.

4, it will display huge pop-up ads or links on the browsing pages.

5, this program can make corrupt of the browsers and slow down the speed of system performance.

6, this program also uses tracking cookies to gather victims’ information and then may send it to the remote hackers.

Easily and Safely Guide to Remove l.yimg.com Completely

Recommended Guide 1: Remove l.yimg.com with manually

1.  Stop all running processes by pressing Alt and Ctrl and Delete key together to open Task Manager.

2.  Disable any suspicious startup items. 

For Windows XP:

Step: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items including those of l.yimg.com.

3.   Remove add-ons on your infected browsers:

Internet Explorer:

1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;

2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;

3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;

4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.

Google Chrome

1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;

2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;

3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;

4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;

5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark. 

Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;

2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;

3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;  

4. Show hidden files   

Step: a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;

b) Under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;

5. Disable proxy

1).    Click on Tools on the menu bar

2).    Select Internet options

3).    Go to Connections tab

4).    Select LAN settings at the bottom of the dialog

5).    Under the Proxy sever, untick 'use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).'

6).    Click OK

6. Remove all infected files and registry as follows:

CommonPrograms%\startup\ l.yimg.com.exe

%System%\ l.yimg.com.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\l.yimg.com CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] l.yimg.com.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ l.yimg.com

Recommended Guide 2: Remove l.yimg.com with SpyHunter

1. Click Here To Download  Removal Tool to automatically remove this infection.

2. Install SpyHunter by reading the installation details.

3. Scan out and remove the residing files of this infection.
After you install the program, please open it, and switch to Scan tab, perform quick or full scan to eliminate possible virus infection file

Once the scan is over, you can click view button to check the detail information of the detection. Please make sure to click “Remove” button to completely remove the malicious files from your computer. 

Notification: l.yimg.com is a very dangerous program that can come out on the target computer by many ways without your permission. Once it gets into system, it will start to change the homepage and search into http://l.yimg.com, even shows a ton of annoying pop-up ads or links on the webpage which may stop you working on PC. So you need to get rid of http://l.yimg.com redirect from your browser as soon as you find it.