How to remove Chinese antivirus Baidu? How do I remove a program with Chinese characters?

Many users are familiar with the new Chinese antivirus under the name Baidu, but few know that the Chinese viruses BaidaEx, Baidu Sd and Baidu An are able to disguise it as well. The most interesting is that none of the users installed them personally. Who then installed it? The Chinese miracle is attached to popular programs that are installed from the Internet. During the installation of such a program, the user quickly presses the "Next" and "Agree" buttons, not reading that the antivirus is installed in the batch, beautiful panels from popular browsers, or anything else that is completely unnecessary on the user's computer. If simple elements can be easily removed from the computer, then with antivirus and viruses, it's not so simple. It is necessary to understand how to remove the Chinese antivirus Baidu and the virus disguised as a virus so that there are no reminders left in the system.

Symptoms of computer infection by a Chinese miracle

The first to be distributed are browsers, such as Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox. When they are opened, a search engine with a large number of advertisements is launched from the label. Setting the default home page in the browser settings will not change the situation, you can not waste time on this. Also, the operation of the entire operating system slows down significantly, even on a high-performance platform with a powerful processor and a large amount of RAM. On the desktop, there are shortcuts with hieroglyphs that are duplicated by applications in the system menu, on the right, at the bottom near the clock. These icons look like blue, green or red shields. It remains to figure out how to remove the program with Chinese characters from the computer.

A set of necessary tools for the liquidation of Baidu

Before proceeding to the treatment procedure, you need to stock up with several programs that will help remove Adware Baidu once and for all. All the programs are free, and they need to be downloaded only from the developer's site, so that you do not accidentally install yourself something like a Chinese miracle.

1. CCleaner - a program for the complete uninstallation of programs, registry cleaning and startup management in Windows.
2. Dr.Web CureIt! - a free utility from the well-known manufacturer of antivirus software DrWEB.
3. Avast is a free antivirus that can react to unauthorized installation of Chinese programs. Avast is installed only if there is not one antivirus in the system.

Go to safe mode

After downloading the required set of programs, saving them to the disk, you can start active operations. Before you remove the Chinese Baidu anti-virus, you must put Windows into safe mode. First, you must disconnect the computer from the Internet and reboot the system. During the reboot, after seeing the startup BIOS window, it is necessary to press the F8 key on the keyboard, it can be several times until a menu appears prompting you to select the actions before loading Windows. Catching this menu is difficult without a knack, if not, you can turn off the computer at all, and then on pressing it immediately press the F8 button with a period of one second - so the chances are greater. In the menu that appears, use the arrow keys on the keyboard to select "Safe Mode" (or Safe Mode, if the menu is in English). Press the Enter key on the keyboard.

First steps with CCleaner

Installing the previously downloaded CCleaner program on your computer, you can address the issue of how to uninstall the program with Chinese characters. Go to the menu "Tools / Tools", select the "Uninstall / Uninstall" tab. A list of all installed programs is displayed in the system. Alternately, you need to remove from the list all the programs that have in their name Baidu and Chinese characters. To do this, click once on the program name, highlighting your choice, and click the "Uninstall" button in the upper right corner.

In the process of uninstallation, windows of the Chinese program may appear with the suggestion of pressing buttons, signed by hieroglyphs. The main thing is to remember that the left button is always a confirmation, accordingly, it must be pressed. In addition to Baidu, you must also remove all browsers installed manually: Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox. If this is not done, the Baidu plug-ins installed in the browsers will restore the remote antivirus the first time it is launched. Subsequently, browsers can be downloaded from the Internet (from official development sites!) And reinstalled.

Editing startup and cleaning the registry from garbage with CCleaner

Without closing the CCleaner program, you must make changes to the Windows startup. To do this, select the "Startup" tab in the same menu "Tools / Tools". In the appeared list of the first bookmark of Windows, you need to remove the antivirus from startup. Chinese Baidu can be written in both Latin letters and hieroglyphs. Then you need to highlight the cursor with the desired field, click the "Delete" button in the upper right corner. Exactly delete the startup keys for all the remaining bookmarks that follow after the Windows bookmark on the top panel of the open window. The CCleaner program can be minimized, it will come in handy at the last stage of cleaning the Windows registry from garbage.

Manually removing antivirus elements

Without user intervention is indispensable. Before removing the Chinese antivirus Baidu and all the directories in Windows where it could be, finally, you need to open the Windows search window. There are two ways to do this:

• Press the buttons on the keyboard "Start" (the button with the Windows icon) and F.
• After opening the explorer, go to drive C (if the system drive has another letter - select it). In the upper right corner of the window there will be a field "Search", in which you need to write the word Baidu.

After a short search, the system will provide information on the files and directories that are relevant to the object being deleted. All directories and files with the name you need to delete and clear the trash. After the deletion, the search procedure must be repeated until the search returns zero results.

Search in the system of infected files

The system can contain files with which the Chinese miracle has been connected to the computer from the Internet and was installed on the computer. To exclude the complaints of users after the cleaning of the computer that the Chinese program is not being deleted, the viruses embedded in the software must be destroyed using Dr.Web CureIt! After installing the program and running, you need to click just one button - "Start Check". The program will independently cure or liquidate infected files, which will be reported in the report file after the scan is completed.

After all actions - global registry cleaning

Having finished removing the infected files from the computer, it remains to decide how to remove the Chinese Baidu anti-virus from the registry of the Windows system. To do this, go to the "Registry / Registry" menu in the CCleaner program and click the button at the bottom of the screen - "Scan for Issues". After completing the scan, the system will prompt you to correct the errors. In the lower right corner, click the "Fix selected" button and select "Fix Issue all" in the window that appears. After confirming the registry cleaning, the CCleaner program can be closed.

You can safely restart the computer and boot in normal mode. If Windows asks how the user wants to start before starting, select "Normal Windows / Start Windows Normally".

Chinese antivirus can be russified

It is possible that the user independently decided to install a real Chinese anti-virus Baidu, which in addition is free and has a number of excellent features that are available only in paid versions of other antivirus developers. We need to understand how to correctly Russify Baidu Antivirus. To do this, go to the official site of the developer of the antivirus Baidu in the Language packs section, find and download the folder with the Russian.zip file.

If the Baidu anti-virus menu is in English, then the installation is done through the Language Translator antivirus menu. In other words, you need to unpack the contents of the downloaded file into the DIYResource directory, which is located along with the executable antivirus files on the system disk.