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How to remove Groundhogday2.cn?

November 14th, 2009

What is Groundhogday2.cn?

Groundhogday2.cn is a malicious website, used to promote the notorious rogue anti-spyware program Personal Antivirus. This rogue is distributed by trojans, which are also capable of hijacking the browser, resulting in constant redirections to Groundhogday2.cn and other similar domains. This website looks like a regular Windows explorer window, which has an online system scan. The scan appears to be real, but actually detects threats that don’t actually exist on the system, in order to scare the user into downloading Personal Antivirus.

Do NOT trust this website and remove Personal Antivirus as soon as possible.


Groundhogday2.cn is Dangerous

arrow Groundhogday2.cn is a parasitic Browser Hijacker
arrow Groundhogday2.cn may show numerous annoying advertisements
arrow Groundhogday2.cn logs your internet browsing history
arrow Groundhogday2.cn will replace (hijack) your browser homepage
arrow Groundhogday2.cn may spread additional spyware
arrow Groundhogday2.cn violates your privacy and compromises your security

Manual Groundhogday2.cn removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Groundhogday2.cn, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using automatic spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.

Stop these Groundhogday2.cn processes:
Remove these Groundhogday2.cn Registry Entries:
Remove these Groundhogday2.cn files:

Groundhogday2.cn is classified as a Browser Hijacker, which means its parasitic damage payload consists of hijacking your browser homepage, error page, or search page with its own, mostly a commercial site of its creators, forcing you to accumulate force hits to a particular website to make it more popular or by using pay-per-click sites to earn money.

The easiest way for a Browser Hijacker such as Groundhogday2.cn to infect your computer is to exploit certain ActiveX controls and other security holes in your Internet Explorer browser. By browsing insecure websites on the internet, users may encounter various pop-ups, which secretly install Browser Hijackers like Groundhogday2.cn on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as Groundhogday2.cn completes its operations, the overall browser stability and performance severely degrade, making it nearly impossible to surf the web normally.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Browser Hijacker such as Groundhogday2.cn?

Slow internet connection: Browser Helper Objects are constantly using your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers, as well as receive ads and pop-ups from third party servers, which causes much slower internet connection speed and overall connection instability.
Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Browser Hijacker keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Browser Hijackers.

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