Ihavenet.com Removal Guide

If you are constantly redirected to Ihavenet.com then do consider a possibility that you are infected with a browser hijacker. Computer experts claim that users get infected with this malicious threat via computer worms or rootkits. TDL3 rootkit is especially notorious for accessing computer system behind user’s back and changing a variety of settings. Modifying the default home page for Ihavenet.com is only one of the symptoms that may occur when your system is infected with malware. Hence, it is important that you run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner in order to determine whether your system is under attack.

When you get infected with this browser hijacker, a new web browser window to Ihavenet.com pops up randomly each time you browse the Internet. It interferes with your browsing sessions and exposes you to potential security threats. When Ihavenet.com is set as your default search engine and home page, most of the time you are forced to use this website for your search queries. It also means that Ihavenet.com can collect the information on your web browsing via cookies. In case this information gets leaked to a third party, it could be used for marketing purposes and you would be spammed with pop-up ads.

It could be rather troublesome to remove Ihavenet.com on your own, because the files responsible for redirecting you to Ihavenet.com are located in the system folder and they have random names. Hence, if you are not sure of which file you need to remove, you might end up deleting an important system file. Not to mention that the program which initiates Ihavenet.com redirections is set to start automatically each time you turn on your computer. It should not be surprising because Ihavenet.com is directly related to Google Redirect Virus, which is a multi-component computer infection, blamed for a number of browser issues.

You may try removing Ihavenet.com on your own, although manual removal requires attention and caution. If you are not sure of yourself, it would be for the best to acquire a licensed computer security application that would remove Ihavenet.com automatically, at the same time checking for other potential infections. However, if you choose to delete Ihavenet.com on your own, then follow the instructions below to do it.

Delete Ihavenet.com files

1. Go to My Computer and open Local disk (C:).
2. Go to Windows and double-click system32.
3. Open syswow64 folder and delete randomly named file with .dll extension.

Modify Windows hosts file

1. Open My Computer and go to Windows.
2. Select System32 and double-click drivers.
3. Go to etc folder and open hosts file with Notepad.
4. There should be only 127.0.0.1 localhost or ::1 localhost at the end of the text. Delete anything that is below the two lines mentioned before and save changes.

Do not hesitate to leave a comment below if you encounter problems while removing Ihavenet.com from your PC.