Conduit virus

Have you located the Conduit virus running on the Windows operating system? The first topic that needs to be addressed when discussing this potential threat is its category. As our researchers have revealed, this is not virus after all, and many computer users believe it to be one due the suspicious activity related to it. When you install Conduit software onto your personal computer you are always presented with an installer asking you to confirm the installation of additionally promoted software, including PasswordBox, TuneUp Utilities, or Conduit search tools. In some cases, these additional programs are set to install onto the PC automatically if you click the unifying Install/Accept button. Needless to say, you should not treat an application as malicious if it does not impose any threats. Despite this, there are a few reasons why we recommend that you remove Conduit related software.

Conduit is a platform which is used to create various different applications. There are hundreds of well-known Conduit Community Toolbars which you may have faced already. Some of them include Nvstech Toolbar, Bitlord Toolbar, Oscar Delta Toolbar and Metacrawler Toolbar. If you install the applications onto your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers without focusing on the presented installation setup, you could be surprised by the additionally installed software. It is quite possible that you will find search.conduit.com set as the default search engine and the home page of all your browsers. Even though the search engine does not look unreliable, we do not recommend running it because it is most likely to route you to various undesirable websites. For example, the search engine could easily route you to google.com/search, which is not risky but certainly undesirable. If you wish to use Google search, you should replace the unreliable search.conduit.com without further hesitation.

In order to have the so-called Conduit virus deleted from the operating Windows system and the affected web browsers, you can either follow manual removal guides below or you can install automatic malware detection and removal software. Without a doubt we advise utilizing authentic security software to delete the unwanted software because this is what will help you keep the operating system protected in the future as well. Note that if you install this software you will still need to delete undesirable search tools, which you can do manually following step 2 in the instructions below.

Step I: Remove Conduit virus from PC

Remove from Windows XP:

1. Open the Start menu by clicking the Start icon on the Task Bar.
2. Select Control Panel and then double-click Add or Remove Programs.
3. Choose the undesirable application and click Remove.

Remove from Windows Vista/Windows 7:

1. Click the Start menu icon on the Task Bar and select Control Panel.
2. Move to Uninstall a program and locate undesirable software.
3. Right-click the program you wish to delete and select Uninstall.

Remove from Windows 8:

1. Access the Metro UI menu and right-click on the background.
2. Select All apps, click Control Panel and then Uninstall a program.
3. Find the program you wish to delete, right-click and select Uninstall.

Step II: Delete Conduit virus from browsers

Delete from Internet Explorer:

1. Open the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+T (Tools menu).
2. Select Manage Add-ons and then click Search Providers.
3. Select a new search provider, Remove the undesirable one and click Close.
4. Open the Tools menu again (Alt+T) again and select Internet Options.
5. Click the General tab and locate the Home Page.
6. Change/remove the undesirable URL and click OK.

Delete from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+T.
2. Select Options from the appeared Tools menu.
3. Click the General tab, change/remove the Home Page and click OK.
4. Move to the search box on the right and click the search provider icon.
5. Select Manage Search Engines.
6. Remove the undesirable search provider and click OK.

Delete from Google Chrome:

1. Open the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+F.
2. Select Settings and move to the On Startup section.
3. Mark Open a specific page or set of pages and click Set pages.
4. Overwrite/remove the undesirable URL and click OK.
5. Under Appearance mark Show Home button.
6. Click Change and repeat step 4.
7. Under Search click Manage search engines.
8. Click X on the undesirable search provider to remove it and click Done.