More recently, a new threat has appeared on the Internet called Workno.ru. Not every user of a Windows system knows how to remove it from a computer. It will be shown below how to do this with the simplest methods. At the same time, we dwell on the nature of this virus in order to clearly understand what users are dealing with.
Worknp.ru: what is this application?
This applet in most cases is installed into the system spontaneously. Sometimes it may appear due to the carelessness of a user who, during the installation of some other programs, agreed to install additional components.
This virus is an adware operating on the principle of browser hijackers, replacing the start pages, constantly redirecting the user to advertising-containing resources and installing its own add-on plug-in in all web browsers in the system. How to remove Workno.ru from the computer? There is nothing particularly complicated that even an unprepared user would not cope with. But first things first.
Workno.ru: how to remove a virus in a standard way?
The virus itself is not particularly masked in the system, although it can create its own copies. Therefore, as soon as it was noticed that the start page in the browser has changed, you must immediately proceed to uninstall Workno.ru. How to remove this threat at system startup? To begin with, you should use the "Task Manager", in which all processes associated with the virus are forcibly terminated. As a rule, they will have appropriate names.
After that, you need to call the system configuration section with the msconfig command in the Run console (Win + R) and go to the startup tab (for systems of the eighth modification and below). In Windows 10, the auto start tab is located directly in the "Task Manager". Here you just need to uncheck the process and restart the system. But this is far from all the actions that need to be performed to get rid of the Workno.ru virus. How to remove it completely? Simple enough. To do this, use the standard method of uninstalling programs and the corresponding section of the "Control Panel".
After that, in the "Explorer" you need to create a search query with the name of the virus and delete all the found residual objects. Then you have to call the registry editor (regedit command in the Run console) and search there. Typically, the keys will be located in the SOFTWARE sections of the HKLM and HKU branches. At the end of the action, a “control shot” is made - a full system scan with a regular scanner or program like AdwareCleaner (for complete certainty).
Workno.ru: how to remove when launching Internet browsers?
But that is not all. In the above way, the user gets rid of the virus body only, but there are still add-ons in browsers. Let's see how to remove Workno.ru from Opera, Google Chrome, Mozilla or Internet Explorer. In principle, which browser is used does not play a role. The methodology is the same for everyone.
In the web browser itself, go to the main settings menu and go to the installed plugins section (extensions and add-ons), in which you need to uninstall the specified add-in. After that, in the settings you should also change the start page, setting it to a blank (usually about: blank).
Finally, close the browser and right-click on its shortcut, and select the property bar from the context menu. On the “Shortcut” tab there is a line “Object”, which contains the full path to the browser executable file. For reliability, you should make sure that the line ends with "Browser name.exe" (for example, Chrome.exe without any further additions in the form of links to HTML addresses or anything else). Only after this can we assume that the virus really did not remain a trace. You can try to delete the user profile or reset to factory settings, but this does not always help.
Instead of an afterword
Here is such an interesting virus Workno.ru. How to remove it, it seems, is already clear. It remains to advise inexperienced users who, for whatever reason, do not want to perform all the actions manually, use narrowly targeted uninstallers such as Revo Uninstaller or a similar iObit product for standard removal. Then there will be no need to search and delete residual files and registry keys. But you will have to uninstall plug-ins in browsers yourself, no matter how you would like to automate this procedure.