www-Find-www.com Threat Level:

www-Find-www.com is a browser hijacker site that may be related to Facebook worm Koobface.

Are most of your searches redirected to www-Find-www.com?

Did you get a Facebook message that linked to a Flash update you needed to download?

If you’re using social networking sites, you may find yourself hijacked by Koobface. Koobface works by adding links to social networking profiles, while posing as a video code. If you click a link and install the “video codec,” you’ll actually download Koobface. Koobface launches and searches your PC for social networking site cookies, and uses these cookies to modify your profiles with Koobface links.

If you’ve received a Koobface popup that reads “Error: Error installing Codec. Please contact support,” and now your browser redirects to www-Find-www.com, let me show you how to block www-Find-www.com.

Do You Have www-Find-www.com?

When you’re infected with badware — whether it’s www-Find-www.com, spyware, adware, a Trojan, or a virus — there are a few key symptoms. Have you noticed…

• Slow computer performance: It just takes one parasite like www-Find-www.com to slow your computer dramatically. If your PC takes longer than usual to reboot, or if your Internet connection is unusually slow, you may be infected with www-Find-www.com.
• New desktop shortcuts or switched homepage: Badware like www-Find-www.com may change your Internet settings to redirect your homepage to another site. Badware can even add desktop shortcuts to your PC.
• Annoying popups: Badware can bombard your computer with popup ads, even when you’re not online. Through these popups, you may be tricked into downloading more spyware.

How to Remove www-Find-www.com Manually

Before we get started, you should backup your system and your registry, so it’ll be easy to restore your computer if anything goes wrong.

To remove www-Find-www.com manually, you need to delete www-Find-www.com files. Not sure how to delete www-Find-www.com files? Click here, and I’ll show you. Otherwise, go ahead and…

Stop www-Find-www.com processes:

Delete www-Find-www.com files:

Get rid of www-Find-www.com registry keys:

Note: In any www-Find-www.com files I mention above, “%UserProfile%” is a variable referring to your current user’s profile folder. If you’re using Windows NT/2000/XP, by default this is “C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER]” (e.g., “C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith”). If you have any questions about manual www-Find-www.com removal, go ahead and leave a comment.

How Do You Remove www-Find-www.com Files?

Need help figuring out how to delete www-Find-www.com files? While there’s some risk involved, and you should only manually remove www-Find-www.com files if you’re comfortable editing your system, you’ll find it’s fairly easy to delete www-Find-www.com files in Windows.

How to delete www-Find-www.com files in Windows XP and Vista:

1. Click your Windows Start menu, and then click “Search.”
2. A speech bubble will pop up asking you, “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.”
3. Type a www-Find-www.com file in the search box, and select “Local Hard Drives.”
4. Click “Search.” Once the file is found, delete it.

How to stop www-Find-www.com processes:

1. Click the Start menu, select Run.
2. Type taskmgr.exe into the the Run command box, and click “OK.” You can also launch the Task Manager by pressing keys CTRL + Shift + ESC.
3. Click Processes tab, and find www-Find-www.com processes.
4. Once you’ve found the www-Find-www.com processes, right-click them and select “End Process” to kill www-Find-www.com.

How to remove www-Find-www.com registry keys:

Because your registry is such a key piece of your Windows system, you should always backup your registry before you edit it. Editing your registry can be intimidating if you’re not a computer expert, and when you change or a delete a critical registry key or value, there’s a chance you may need to reinstall your entire system. Make sure your backup your registry before editing it.

1. Select your Windows menu “Start,” and click “Run.” An “Open” field will appear. Type “regedit” and click “OK” to open up your Registry Editor.
2. Registry Editor will open as a window with two panes. The left side Registry Editor’s window lets you select various registry keys, and the right side displays the registry values of the registry key you select.
3. To find a registry key, such as any www-Find-www.com registry keys, select “Edit,” then select “Find,” and in the search bar type any of www-Find-www.com’s registry keys.
4. As soon as www-Find-www.com registry key appears, you can delete the www-Find-www.com registry key by right-clicking it and selecting “Modify,” then clicking “Delete.”

How to delete www-Find-www.com DLL files:

1. First locate www-Find-www.com DLL files you want to delete. Open your Windows Start menu, then click “Run.” Type “cmd” in Run, and click “OK.”
2. To change your current directory, type “cd” in the command box, press your “Space” key, and enter the full directory where the www-Find-www.com DLL file is located. If you’re not sure if the www-Find-www.com DLL file is located in a particular directory, enter “dir” in the command box to display a directory’s contents. To go one directory back, enter “cd ..” in the command box and press “Enter.”
3. When you’ve located the www-Find-www.com DLL file you want to remove, type “regsvr32 /u SampleDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u jl27script.dll”) and press your “Enter” key.

That’s it. If you want to restore any www-Find-www.com DLL file you removed, type “regsvr32 DLLJustDeleted.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 jl27script.dll”) into your command box, and press your “Enter” key.

Did www-Find-www.com change your homepage?

1. Click Windows Start menu > Control Panel > Internet Options.
2. Under Home Page, select the General > Use Default.
3. Type in the URL you want as your home page (e.g., “http://www.homepage.com”).
4. Select Apply > OK.
5. You’ll want to open a fresh web page and make sure that your new default home page pops up.

www-Find-www.com Removal Tip

Is your computer acting funny after deleting any www-Find-www.com files? I recommend using a program like File Recover from PC Tools. File Recover saves deleted files that otherwise can’t be recovered by Windows operating sytem.

Want to save time finding www-Find-www.com files? Download Spyware Doctor, let it find the www-Find-www.com files for you, and then manually delete www-Find-www.com files.

How Did You Get www-Find-www.com?

Wondering how www-Find-www.com ended up on your PC? If you’re infected with www-Find-www.com or other badware, perhaps you were using…

• Freeware or shareware: Did you download and install shareware or freeware? These low-cost or free software applications may come bundled with spyware, adware, or programs like www-Find-www.com. Sometimes adware is attached to the free software to “pay” developers for the cost of creating the software, and more often spyware is secretly attached to free software to harm your computer and steal your personal and financial information.
• Peer-to-peer software: Do you use a peer-to-peer (P2P) program or other application with a shared network? When you use these applications, you put your system at risk for unknowingly downloading an infected file, including applications like www-Find-www.com.
• Questionable websites: Did you visit a website that’s of questionable nature? When you visit malicious sites that are fishy and phishy, badware may be automatically downloaded and installed onto your computer, sometimes including applications like www-Find-www.com. I recommend you use Firefox web browser, if you don’t already.

Understanding www-Find-www.com

If you’re infected with www-Find-www.com, you should know what you’re fighting. I’ll explain some definitions related to www-Find-www.com.

www-Find-www.com May Be a Worm

Worms are virus-like badware with destructive codes. Worms are able to mutate, or replace their own code by automatically, which makes worms very dangerous, difficult to find, and hard to delete. Similar to viruses, worms can spread to the other computers by secretly and automatically emailing themselves to other Internet users in your address book. The main difference between worms and viruses is that a worm wil replace your computer files rather than simply inserting their code into your files.

www-Find-www.com May Be a Browser Hijacker

Browser hijackers can change your web browser settings. Browser hijackers may change your home page to or redirect your searches through a pay-per-click site to make money, and browser hijackers may also monitor your web activities. Often, resetting your web browser to its default settings will not remove or stop the browser hijacker from working.