S.yimg.com has slithered onto your computer
You may have known an infamous malware called L.yimg.com that has attacked many computer users for a long time. But you don’t know what S.yimg.com is? And why this program has the similar activities with the L.yimg.com which mainly attack computers who open e-mail on Yahoo or other famous sites. if you want to open the emails, a pop-up window will jump up that“waiting for s.yimg.com”, and then you never can open the email.
According many victims of this program, we also know that s.yimg.com can cause some unwanted redirects to its own domain. If users open their web browsers, a redirect at the bottom left will be seen. So we can regard it as malware that belongs to browser hijacker and adware that can work on all brands of web browsers like Yahoo, Bing, Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Google Chrome. It can not only lead many redirects, but also cause displays a lot of annoying pop-ups.
Usually victims may see S.yimg.com 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 S.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. So you will experience a big-time slowdown on your PC. So you have to get rid of S.yimg.com from your computer for your security. Here are some victims of this infection.
“What is s.yimg? I get this "waiting for s.yimg.com" and cannot open my e-mails.”
“I stumbled across the location where s.ytimg.com is allowed storage access on my local computer that allows to pop-ups to occur.”
“I'm experiencing a big-time slowdown on my laptop and am seeing a redirect at the bottom left "s.yimg.com."”
Tutorials to Remove s.yimg.com
Step I: Stop all related process in Windows Task Manager.
To stop all related processes, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the “Processes” tab, search this popup then right-click it and select “End Process” key.
Windows 8:
Right-click the taskbar and select “Task Manager”. Click “More details” button when you see the Task Manager box. After that, hit “Details” tab to find out the processes of the adware and then hit the End task button.
Step II: Show hidden files and folders.
Windows 8:
Open Windows Explorer from the Start screen. Click View tab. Tick “File name extensions” and “Hidden items” options and then press OK to show all hidden items.
Windows 7/Vista/XP:
(1). Click on the Start button and then on Control Panel
(2). Click on the Appearance and Personalization link
(3). Click on the Folder Options link
(4). Click on the View tab in the Folder Options window
(5). Choose the Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category
(6). Click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.
Step III: Delete unwanted software
Win8 users:
1. Press Win+R, type in “control” and tap Enter
2. Select Uninstall a program/Add or remove programs
3. Highlight the unwanted application
4. Click Uninstall/Remove
Windows 7 & Vista users:
• From the Start Menu, select Control Panel.
• Under Programs click the Uninstall a Program link.
• Select the program you wish to remove and right click then select Uninstall/Change.
• Follow the prompts to finish the uninstallation of the software.
Windows XP users:
• From the Start Menu, select Control Panel.
• Click the Add or Remove Programs icon.
• Select the program you wish to remove and right click then select Uninstall/Change.
• Follow the prompts to finish the uninstallation of the software.
Remove s.yimg.com from Chrome/IE/Firefox:
If you use Chrome:
Open Chrome.
Click on the Chrome menu and select Settings.
Click on Extensions in the left side menu.
Remove/Disable the Delta Toolbar.
Go back to select Settings.
In the Search section, click Manage search engines and remove s.yimg.com from the default search engines list. Click OK to save the changes.
In the Chrome menu, select Settings.
In the On Startup section, Click on Set Pages and delete the Delta URL (you can set a different home page by entering a URL of your choice).
Click Ok to save the changes.
In the Appearance section, click on Change and delete the Delta URL (you can set a different home page). Click Ok to save the changes.
If you use IE:
Click on “Tools” and select Manage add-ons.
Under Add-on Types, select Toolbars and Extensions.
In the right pane, select Delta Toolbar & Delta helper Object and click on the Disable button. Under Add-on Types, select Search Providers.
Select it and click the Remove button.
In the General tab, delete the Delta URL from the Home page text box.
Click OK to save the changes
If you use Firefox:
Open Mozilla Firefox.
From the Firefox orange button (or from the standard Tools menu), click on Add-ons.
Make sure Extensions is selected in the Add-ons manager left side menu bar
Disable or remove the Delta Toolbar add-on
In the General tab, delete the Delta URL from the home page text box.
Click OK to save the changes.
Step V: Download SpyHunter's* Malware Scanner to Detect and Remove s.yimg.com.
1: Click download button below to download SpyHunter.
2: You just need to follow the installation prompts on your screen and don’t make any change during the installing procedure.
3: If you have installed SpyHunter successfully, please SCAN your computer by clicking MALWARE SCAN or SCAN NOW button.
4: Once scan completes, please remove all noted infected files.
From what has been discussed above, we may know that:
S.yimg.com pretends to be a useful search engine which is able to offer useful search information to users. However, the problem is, have you ever installed it as your search engine. it can trigger many annoying redirects and popups when you browse some certain websites, so you have to remove S.yimg.com with powerful removal software.
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