"Ads by HD4Good". How to get rid of them?

What is HD4Good?

HD4Good by Buca Apps is a malicious program that installs third-party browser extensions and shows you diffirent kinds of advertising content:
Example of HD4Good advertising
HD4Good belongs to Crossrider family of virus programs and can be named by different malware scanners also as:
  • Adware.Crossrider (Gridinsoft Trojan Killer)
  • Adware.Graftor
  • PUP/Win32.CrossRider
  • Toolbar.CrossRider

How to figure out that your computer is 

infected with HD4Good?

Here are some symptoms that indicate that your computer is infected with HD4Good:
  • you see a lot of advertising in your browsers;
  • diffirent pop-up windows appear when you clicking on the elements of web pages;
  • some third-party extensions installed to your browser without your permission;
  • at least one of the following folders is present on your computer:
    • C:\Program Files\HD4Good
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\HD4Good
  • at least one of the following registry items is present on your computer:
    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\HD4Good-nv-ie
    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\HD4Good-nv
    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\HD4Good
    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\HD4Good-nv-ie
    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\HD4Good-nv
    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\HD4Good
    • HKCU\Software\Crossrider
    • HKCU\Software\AppDataLow\Software\Crossrider
    • HKCU\Software\InstalledBrowserExtensions
    • HKLM\Software\InstalledBrowserExtensions
  • at least one of the following files are running on your system:
    • UninstallBrw.exe
    • utils.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-6.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-11.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-5.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-4.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-2.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-7.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-10.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-1-64.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-6.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-11.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-5.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-4.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-2.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-7.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-10.exe
    • 95e1ce45-bdbd-437d-a80b-c91963d95aa0-64.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-4.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-5.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-6.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-7.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-2.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-11.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-10.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-64.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-1-4.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-11.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-1-5.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-1-6.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-1-7.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-2.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-1-10.exe
    • 89bdf518-ed24-49ca-b7b7-4f0d584c984f-1-64.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-11.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-10.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-64.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-2.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-7.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-6.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-4.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-5.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-11.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-10.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-64.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-2.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-7.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-6.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-4.exe
    • 59d9b34d-0657-44e3-b7e2-db5475cf4745-1-5.exe
    • HD4Good Installer
  • at least one file with one of the following MD5 hashes is present on your computer:
    • 5D5EFA16B8F7DC31922E3EEE9C39826E
    • 3222A28FA4B42B1FA9491503C8360E1C
    • 5B573AAF1AB790FF87A06FEB72E7F73C
    • C909A8C4560DCD305864B52CF9CDF8F0
    • 5218D2765A7BE2DDA8308F3272BE5902

How to get rid of HD4Good?

Follow this guide to remove HD4Good from your computer completely.

Step 1.  Try to remove HD4Good using tools of Windows operating system.

If you have installed Windows 8, press Start button on the screen or Windows button on your keyboard, start typing "programs and features" and choose "Programs and Features" in the appeared menu:
Programs and Features
If you are using Windows 7, press Start button and choose "Control panel": 
Windows 7 start menu

Look for HD4Good in the list of installed programs, select it and press Uninstall button:
Example of list of installed programs
Now reboot your computer and check the result. If the advertising is still present, please move to the next step.

Step 2. Remove HD4Good completely 
using Gridinsoft Trojan Killer tool

Gridinsoft Trojan Killer is a powerful all-in-one tool aimed to kill diffirent kinds of malware. It has no analogues on the quality of malware and browser hijackers removal. Gridinsoft Trojan Killer also has professional support team that can resolve your problem remotely even though Trojan Killer didn't find any threat on your PC.

Please, follow the guide below to remove HD4Good virus from your computer.
  • Close all your programs and browsers
  • Install Gridinsoft Trojan Killer and run it by double-clicking on the icon on your desktop 
    Trojan Killer icon on the desktop
  • Run Standart scan using Scan tab of your Trojan Killer
    Scan tab of Trojan Killer
  • After the scanning completed mark all items as Move to quarantine and press Apply button to remove all dangerous items from your computer. Reboot your PC if Trojan Killer asks about it:
    Scan results
  • Now you have to clean all your browsers. Go to Tools tab and press Reset browser settings button:
    Tools tab of Trojan Killer
  • Mark all your browsers as shown below and press Reset button:
    Resetting browser settings
  • Reboot your PC and check the result
Now your computer should be cleaned of HD4Good virus. 

If you still notice any signs of HD4Good malware, please send your request to the Trojan Killer Support. Specialists from Gridinsoft will help you to remove any kind of threats*

*Please, notice that Trojan Killer Support service is able for registred users only

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