Mansjournaln.info Removal Guide

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Mansjournaln.info is an URL that works as a redirect. It redirects users to dubious websites with advertisements and other commercial content mainly. Therefore, researchers working at 411-spyware.com are sure that it should be called an adware helper. Mansjournaln.info causes redirections to third-party pages so quickly that users usually do not even see Mansjournaln.info. Instead, they usually find a Scheduled Task with this URL as its name located in %WINDIR%\System32\Tasks. It is created right after the entrance of this adware helper. Of course, it does that not without reason. You will find it explained how this adware helper works in detail further in this article. Information about its removal will be provided in the last paragraph too. Read about it first before going to get rid of it.

There is basically no doubt that an adware helper is installed on your computer and works on it actively if you see commercial advertisements immediately when you open your browsers or new browsers’ tabs are opened automatically with ads. Users usually see the commercial content periodically. Most probably, a browser with commercials will open every 33 minutes because of the task created by this adware helper. You might see ads promoting certain products, services, and even pop-ups offering to take surveys to get a chance to win some kind of item. A number of users whose computers are infected with the Mansjournaln.info adware helper make complaints that http://02yzz.allaff.kaji.gdn/?sov=87987181&hid=fxlrhjhplfnjftpr&v=316G3249FF&rt=1&redid=15432&gsid=444&campaign_id=148&id=XNSX.282514660117-r15432-t444&impid=f1516b72-f2b3-11e6-8a4f-aa1f778d2780 is frequently opened for them automatically. This URL opens a pop-up with the following text:

Dear browser user,

You are today’s lucky visitor for: {date}

Please complete this short survey and to say “Thank You” we’ll give you a chance to win HD Streaming Movies®!

No matter what kinds of advertisements you see, ignore them all completely and do not go by any means to enter any details about yourself. If you submit personal information, it might be sold to third parties. Specialists say that this information might be transferred to cyber criminals too. Clicking on advertisements which keep popping up on the screen might be quite a dangerous activity too. As the previous experience of our researches has proved, ads might be dangerous in a sense that they can redirect to places with the malicious content. On top of that, an automatic installation of some kind of undesirable program might be started too by clicking on a malicious commercial advertisement. Evidently, it is better to stay away from all of them. Of course, a risk to click on them accidentally is still quite high even though you make a decision to ignore them, especially if an adware helper is performing activities on the computer. Therefore, you should go to clean your computer if you suspect that ads you see are generated by an untrustworthy program installed on the system.

Let’s find out how adware helpers, most probably used to generate the pay-per-click revenue, are usually distributed. Researchers say that the most likely scenario is that they are all spread bundled with free software. In the case of the Mansjournaln.info adware helper, it should be spread together with free Russian applications from P2P or similar websites. Similar adware helpers, e.g. Youhomepage.org and Howtonews.ru might be distributed in bundles with Russian applications too, so if you do not want to encounter an irritating adware helper again, you should stop downloading software from suspicious pages. If you are not going to stop downloading free stuff from the web, at least, install software attentively so that you could prevent untrustworthy software from showing up on your computer. Users surfing the Internet every day should install a security application on their computers too. It will protect the system from software which has been developed with bad intentions in mind.

Removing the Mansjournaln.info adware helper from the computer is the only way to stop it from causing redirections to third-party websites and opening commercials automatically. There are two removal steps you have to take: first, you should go to reset all browsers to undo all the changes applied by this adware helper and second, you need to delete the Scheduled Task created so that browsers could no longer be opened automatically. The manual removal method is, of course, more time-consuming if compared to the automatic one, so busy people should adopt the latter method.

Delete Mansjournaln.info manually

Internet Explorer

  1. Click Tools at the top when you open your browser.
  2. Select Internet Options.
  3. Open the Advanced tab.
  4. Click Reset.
  5. Tick the box located next to Delete personal settings.
  6. Click Reset one more time in the confirmation window.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Press Alt+H to access the Help menu quickly.
  3. Find the Troubleshooting information option on the menu and select it.
  4. Click Refresh Firefox at the top.
  5. When the pop-up window is opened for you, click Refresh Firefox again.

Google Chrome

  1. Launch Google Chrome.
  2. Open the menu by pressing Alt+F simultaneously.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. At the bottom, click Show advanced settings.
  5. Click on the Reset settings button.
  6. Find the Reset button in the pop-up window, and click on it.

Delete the Scheduled Task created by the Mansjournaln.info adware helper

  1. Press Win+E simultaneously.
  2. Go to %WINDIR%\System32\Tasks.
  3. Find the task mansjournaln.info/rifussm there.
  4. Select it and then press Delete.
Download Remover for Mansjournaln.info *
*SpyHunter scanner, published on this site, is intended to be used only as a detection tool. To use the removal functionality, you will need to purchase the full version of SpyHunter.

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