123.sogou.com is a Chinese website that installs itself in your computer when an unwanted software has been executed. Only little mistake is more than enough to find your browser’s parameters modified with one of the countless unwanted programs found on the internet… we found them in streaming websites, torrent websites, drivers websites, etc…
123.sogou.com can modify Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer’s parameters and it goes beyond changing your homepage. An advertising software is also installed, one that will show ads directly on Windows’ desktop even when the web browsers are closed. On the other hand when the browsers or one of them is opened, the unwanted program “enhances” every website you visit by inserting ads pretty much everywhere via sponsored links that will guide you to visit all sorts of websites.
123.sogou.com is pretty tough when it comes to uninstall it, specially for those that are not technology experts. We have selected several free tools that have proven to be successful to remove 123.sogou.com automatically. If you have any further issues after following our guide or it seems like the program hasn’t been completely removed, don’t hesitate to leave us a message on our forum, all help requests are free.
For your information please know that 123.sogou.com is detected as suspicious by 2 anti-viruses.
How to remove 123.sogou.com ?
Remove 123.sogou.com with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool made to delete unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no set up and can be ran in a instant to scan your computer.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove 123.sogou.com with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware dis a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for 123.sogou.com.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove 123.sogou.com with HitmanPro
HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner, designed to rescue your computer from malware. HitmanPro is designed to work alongside existing security programs without any conflicts. HitmanPro offers you a Free Scan for a second opinion.
- You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
Download HitmanPro - Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
- Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
- HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for 123.sogou.com malicious files.
- When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove 123.sogou.com virus.
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