What is Dounty.com - How to remove Dounty.com?

My Internet Explorer browser’s homepage has been hijacked to http://dounty.com/hp7/. Regardless of whatever I try, the page won’t remove itself from my homepage settings. Please help me rid of this aggressive browser hijacking. If you are looking for the removal guide for Dounty.com, then you are in a right place. Read this post, you can get the helpful information to get rid of Dounty.com.

Description of Dounty.com

Dounty.com also known as BRHome, is identified as a noxious Browser Hijacker which brings Internet problems to the computer users. This annoying browser hijacker is created by cyber criminals to hijack the web browser to its related website to generate web traffics. Once Dounty.com gets into the computer, it will change the browser setting and firewall settings, DNS and etc. It will replace default homepage and new tab by its own domain. It will make automatic redirection to generate revenue by the pay-per-click Technic.

Dounty.com can corrupt all the common used browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. When you open the browser, Dounty.com will redirect your search to its website automatically without your permission. It will lead your search results to some suspicious websites which may be full of advertisement and sponsor links. Some malicious links may lead you to install further infected software automatically, such as adware, spyware, worm, Trojan horse and so on.

In addition, Dounty.com is capable to record your online habit to display unwanted browser diversions to suspicious advertisement websites. It will also collect your personal information for making profits, such as phone number, email address, user account and password of social website, etc. You will receive a lot of spam message or phone call from the unknown marketer. To prevent unwanted trouble and ensure the safety of your system, you should remove Dounty.com as soon as possible.

How does Dounty.com come into your computer?

Dounty.com is distributed through many ways. The most common method is with the use of fake scanner webpage, flash update or video codec, free software which can be downloaded from the Interent. It is important to look carefully before you install those kind of progams. To make sure whether they are useful and legit. During the installation process, you should pay attention to the custom installationa dn express installation. Do remember to pick out the needless items to stop it form install on the computer.

Here in this post, there are two solutions to remove Dounty.com

<< Remove Dounty.com manually.
<<Remove Dounty.com by using SpyHunter anti-malware.
Instructions to get rid of Dounty.com

For manually removal
Step 1. Open Control Panel using instructions below base on your operating system.
Accessing Control Panel on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
Click on Start > Control Panel. Window should open where you can adjust your computer settings.

Accessing Control Panel on Windows 8
a) Hover your mouse on lower-left corner of the screen and wait for the icon to appear.
b) Right-click on the icon to display list of accessible programs.
c) Select Control Panel from the list. Window should open where you can adjust your computer settings.

Step 2. When Control Panel window appears, click on ‘Uninstall a program’ under Programs area.
Step 3. On the opening window, select the program you want to remove.
Step 4 : Remove the Dounty.com Add-ons and Extensions from your browser

1) Go to ‘Tools’ → ‘Manage Add-ons';
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ → choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ → ‘Internet Options’, select ‘General tab’ and click ‘Use default’ button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome

1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings';
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’.
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage search engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Results’ from the list remove it by clicking the “X” mark.

google add ons

Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engines….';
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ → ‘Options’. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the ‘General tab';

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Step 5. Open Registry Editor by navigating to Start Menu, type in Regedit, and then click OK. When you have been in Registry Editor, please remove the following related files and registry entries:
run registry editor

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
Step 6. Scan your computer again with Spyhunter to check.