How to remove Luckystarting.com

What is Luckystarting.com?

Luckystarting.com is an illegitimate and useless search engine. Nevertheless, it’s hard to distinguish from real ones (Google, Yahoo, or Bing) because its design is close to their appearance. In many cases, Luckystarting.com gets on your computer in form of browser extension which you, more likely, didn’t install. This can be categorized as a browser hijacker. After infiltrating, rogue application assigns new settings to your browser. So, from here on out, any search query will be processed by Luckystarting.com hijacker. Changing the configuration manually does not solve the problem due to the program reassigns settings again. Needless to say, such search results issued by Luckystarting.com are of no value. They only diminish the browsing experience. The program shows in the first position only those links for which the developers can get revenue. Moreover, the program consonantly gathers and records such information like IP addresses, logins and passwords, search queries, pages visited, and etc. That can be considered an invasion of privacy. Therefore, you are advised to remove Luckystarting.com hijacker. And that is precisely why we have written this guide.

How Luckystarting.com infects your PC?

There are three most common ways of getting Luckystarting.com on your computer:

1. Bundling method: this method is the most common in malware distribution. Cyber criminals put in the malware to some free software applications. The user downloads this program and install it, but the malicious program also getting into your computer.
2. Don’t be careless, malware applications can be attached to spam emails.
3. Try to avoid visiting suspicious websites, they can infect your PC with Luckystarting.com.

How to remove Luckystarting.com from your computer?

The best and easiest way to remove Luckystarting.com from your computer is to use special anti-malware program that has this threat in its database. The program is fully automated, all you need to do is to download and install it. Once you’ve installed anti-malware application, it will scan your system and remove all the threats.

1. SpyHunter – it scans your computer and detects various threats like Luckystarting.com, then removes it with all of the related malicious files, folders and registry keys. After deep scanning of your system, it will easily find and delete Luckystarting.com. Use this removal tool to get rid of Luckystarting.com for FREE. Download Norton
2. Norton 360 Antimalware – this program will help you to get rid of Luckystarting.com. It can find malicious program that is corrupting your system and clean up junk files after removal. Download MalwareBytes

How to remove Luckystarting.com manually

Step 1: Remove Luckystarting.com from Control Panel

In order to get rid of Luckystarting.com, first thing you need to do is to uninstall malicious program from your computer. When removing Luckystarting.com, try to find suspicious recently installed programs and delete them too, as it’s pretty common that any malware comes with some other unwanted programs.

Windows XP:

1. Select Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then choose Add or Remove Programs.
4. Search for Luckystarting.com.
5. Click Uninstall.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Select Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Choose Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Luckystarting.com and choose Uninstall.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Select Search.
3. After that choose Apps.
4. Next Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Luckystarting.com, select it and choose Uninstall.

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, then select Settings at the top.
2. Choose App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, find Luckystarting.com and select it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for suspicious recently installed programs.

Step 2: Remove Luckystarting.com from browsers

Once you’ve uninstalled the application, remove Luckystarting.com from your web browser. You need to search for recently-installed suspicious add-ons and extensions.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Choose Tools.
4. Select Extensions.
5. Search for Luckystarting.com.
6. Select the trash can icon to remove it.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Select Luckystarting.com.
4. Choose Disable or Remove option.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Choose Manage Add-ons option.
4. Click Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Next select Disable Luckystarting.com.
6. Choose More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Step 3: Removing malicious link from your browser shortcuts

Sometimes even removing of malicious program from your computer and web browser can’t help. If you are still facing unknown webpage when you open your web browser, then you might have your browser shortcut changed. It’s pretty common trick that perform most of browser hijackers. They change your browser shortcut so that every time you open it you’ll see not your homepage, but some advertisement webpage. But this issue is quite simple to fix. The instruction stated below matches most of the browsers.

1. Right-click on your browser shortcut, choose Properties.
2. If you see a link to some website after .exe in the Target field, read on.
3. Usually you are not able to delete a link from Target field, that’s why you need to click on the Open File Location button in this window.
4. Once you’ve opened file location, select chrome.exe/firefox.exe/iexplore.exe.
5. Right-click on this file and choose Sent to option, then Desktop (create shortcut).
6. New shortcut will have no additional redirection links.
7. Delete old infected shortcut. If you got one in your taskbar, delete it from there too.
8. Now you have new and clear shortcut without redirection to unknown websites.

Step 4: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

To be sure that there is nothing left behind, we recommend you to reset your browser. It will restore your browser settings to default.

Reset browser settings in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Reset browser settings in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Reset browser settings in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Got to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Step 5: Remove following files and folders of Luckystarting.com:

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