Lampy Lighty is an adware program that belongs to PUP infection. It often gives you the impression that it is a useful application that helps enhance your browsing experience. It can be added to Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and other web browsers without consent. Once installed successfully on your computer, it will show up numerous pop-ups, coupons, sponsored links and other annoying information to attract you to click it in order to increase browsing traffic. It is a cunning adware that can collect your search queries and items to affect your search results. It means that having this adware on your computer may lead to identify theft. What is bad, those ads page will also redirect PC users to visit other malicious sites that may contain virus infection.
How
Does the Adware Get Into Your Computer?
Downloading and
installing unsafe free programs: It is commonly bundled with additional
parasites and other potential threats when you download and install
freeware/shareware from the Internet. If you randomly visit an unidentified
website and download a program from it, the program you obtain may bring other
potentially unwanted programs and cause browser hijacking issues. Browsing unsafe websites: If you visit unsafe websites or illegal sites, you may get Adware or PUP on your computer. This is because they are often harbors of all types of malware, including adware, Trojan, and spyware, and visiting those sites may get your computer infected by malware.
Opening emails/attachment randomly: Adware and other malware can be injected into email attachments or links so as to infiltrate into your computer without any knowledge. If you open them intentionally or unintentionally, it can get installed automatically on your computer.
Failing to update your antivirus program regularly: If don’t have your antivirus updated to the latest version, Adware or PUP can easily make inroads on your computer. Besides, other malware would also take the chance to infect your computer aggressively.
How
to Remove the Adware from Your Computer?
If your computer is
infected by this adware, your good mood may be destroyed when those unwanted
ads keep popping up on the web pages. Besides, it may violate and expose your
privacy for its illegal purpose. That is why we sincerely advise you to delete Lampy
Lighty completely and promptly from your computer. You can refer to the
instructions below to remove the adware manually.
Step 1: Remove
add-ons related to Lampy Lighty from browser.
Internet Explorer
Launch your
internet explorer.
Click Tools and
navigate to Manage Add-ons.
Find and delete
all unknown add-ons.
Mozilla Firefox
Click on Tools and
select Add-ons.
On Extensions and
Plugins tabs, remove add-ons related to the adware.
Google Chrome
Click on the
Wrench icon or the 3-bar icon.
Click on Tools and
navigate to Extensions.
On Extensions tab,
find and remove any unknown extensions.
Step 2: Delete
malicious files.
Navigate to the
local disk C.
Look for any files
related to the redirect virus.
Step 3: Remove any
malicious registry entries.
Press Windows key
+ R key.
Type “regedit”
into the box and press Enter.
Search for and
remove registry entries associated with the adware.
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