Duba.com virus - How to remove

Duba.com virus is a browser hijacker that affects computers located in China. It’s a program that replaces your homepage and default search engine to Duba.com without asking your permission and later users have problems removing it. The program was designed for advertising purposes. It changes your regular search results by adding sponsored websites and expects you to click on their links and build traffic to these websites.

Luckily it’s not that difficult to tell whether your computer is infected with this browser hijacker or not. We have already mentioned that once infiltrated into system the virus will automatically change both homepage and default search engine to www.duba.com, thus if you see this website as your homepage but can’t recall making those changes, it’s a clear sign that your computer is infected and you should take care of that.

In case you are a victim of this virus and have no idea what to do, please continue reading the article and we will provide you with needed information about the infection and its’ removal.

About Duba.com virus

As mentioned above, Duba.com virus targets Chinese computer users. You can clearly tell that by appearance of the website. By the way, it’s not a first browser hijacker that is written in Chinese, as we have seen examples of this before, such as Uc123.com virus. It’s rather unusual as hackers would want to target a global audience and present their content in English.

If you make a search using Duba.com, you will see that it includes many sponsored links in the list of your search results. Moreover, you will notice a lot of ads among provided search results that redirect to sponsored websites too. The creators of this hijacker earn money by displaying these messages and promoting commercial websites. However, it brings a lot of inconveniences for computer users.

You should also bear in mind that Duba.com virus can easily redirect you to potentially dangerous websites. if that happens, you will risk to get your system infected with malware or other dangerous threats. Since you will experience so many redirections, you can easily allow installations of other potentially unwanted programs, like adware, browser plugins, etc. You must remove Duba.com virus before it creates bigger problems for you.

Duba.com virus usually comes bundled to various free software that users can easily download from the Internet. It is added automatically, unless you refuse this option at the installation steps of your chosen download. However, not all users notice that their homepage is about to be changed as they tend to skip installations steps and just hit “Next” until the installation is complete. To avoid that, always go for a Custom or Advanced installation mode and follow each step very carefully and avoid adding unknown programs.

The very fact that the website is in Chinese and it is targeted to Chinese audience does not mean that it can’t infect users from other regions. In fact, it would be even more disturbing as you are likely not going to understand a single word on there. This makes it unusable and keeping it set as a homepage website is nothing more than a waste of time.

Even though this infection is rather old, it still receives around 20 million visits every single month. That means some of the users just accepted it and are using duba.com as their default search engine. That also means that the virus is still distributed and infecting new computer users. In fact, more than 3% of visitors of duba.com are from United States, as stated by the Report from SimilarWeb.

If your system has already been affected, remove Duba.com virus as soon as possible. This may be quite challenging, as simply changing your homepage to another websites will not work. We have provided a guide that explains step-by-step how to get rid of this hijacker. To remove Duba.com virus automatically, scan your system with an anti-malware tool. Beware that having a reliable anti-malware installed can prevent similar infections in future. We highly suggest to download Spyhunter, as this application has proven to be extremely effective dealing with infections like this and can offer you ultimate security against malware.

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How to remove Duba.com virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Duba.com virus install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Duba.com virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Duba.com virus easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Duba.com virus from macOS

Delete Duba.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Duba.com virus app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Duba.com virus from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Duba.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Duba.com virus from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Duba.com virus related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Duba.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Duba.com virus from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Duba.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Duba.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Duba.com virus and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Duba.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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