What is HOTSITETOPIC.COM? How to Remove HOTSITETOPIC.COM VIRUS from Chrome, Firefox manually?

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In this post I will tell you how to get rid of HOTSITETOPIC.COM ads from your PC.

HOTSITETOPIC.COM web site is detected as a browser hijacker.
if you see this address HOTSITETOPIC.COM in your browser – you are hacked!

HOTSITETOPIC.COM can cause the troubles:

  1. Pop-up ads.
  2. Unwanted messages.
  3. Search redirecting.
  4. Seeing a search engine that looks like Google, but with an unfamiliar URL or logo.
  5. Unknown search engine in a browser.
  6. Changed Google search results.

The web site HOTSITETOPIC.COM was installed by a Adware downloader program or a by the malicious browser extension.

Step-by-step Guide for manual removal of HOTSITETOPIC.COM:

  1. Uninstall HOTSITETOPIC.COM using Windows uninstallation applet (use Add/Remove Programs or Uninstall Program or Apps & features).
  2. Open Task Manager to kill all “HOTSITETOPIC.COM” related processes.
  3. Use Windows search to find and remove “HOTSITETOPIC.COM” files and folders.
  4. Run services.msc to disable a “HOTSITETOPIC.COM” Windows service.
  5. Execute taskschd.msc to get rid of “HOTSITETOPIC.COM” scheduled tasks.
  6. Open regedit.exe and delete HOTSITETOPIC.COM registry keys and values.
  7. Check your shortcuts on your desktop and in the Start menu for HOTSITETOPIC.COM presence. Fix infected shortcuts.
  8. Remove HOTSITETOPIC.COM from Google Chrome.
  9. Remove HOTSITETOPIC.COM from Internet Explorer.
  10. Remove HOTSITETOPIC.COM from Mozilla Firefox.
  11. Clean up your Recycle bin and temporary files.

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