What is ZoomPic?
ZoomPic belongs to a potentially unwanted adware infection. This adware claims
to promote your web browsing by providing features. Once this adware has been
installed to your computer, it will target on special offers and coupons,
comparison shopping, and many other additional features for its malicious
purpose.
It is able to
become an add-on on your browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
and Google Chrome. Once installed this adware will create countless ads based
on the website PC users are visiting. Now this malicious adware program will
display sponsored links, coupons, video related ads, banner ads, or others.
PC users may agree
to give their consents to display all those third party ads and allow the third
party to collect or use the personal information like cookies, history, or
secret files if this adware keeps staying in the infected computer. Once it
starts its working, ZoomPic will keeps displaying image, in-search, pop-up,
pop-under, and in-text advertisements frequently while surfing Internet.
ZoomPic will share
non-personally identifiable information (including search and URL history) to
cyber criminals so as to improve product performance and ad relevance. This
kind of adware will also update its process automatically. It is not a
malicious malware but PC users should remove this PUP completely from your computer
to keep your machine safe.Go into action to remove ZoomPic from your computer.
How can This Adware Attack Your PC?
Usually ZoomPic
will come bundled with free programs from the internet such as media player,
java and other applications. PC users may install those adware accidentally
when they try to install the programs downloaded from Internet. For example,
when you download and install these free programs from Internet PC users may get
ZoomPic adware and other unknown processes installed together if they just keep
click on the I Agree or Accept button during the whole installation setup.
How to Delete ZoomPic from Computer Manually?
As we mentioned
above, ZoomPic belongs to a high-risk PUP program. If your computer has suffer
this adware infection, It is suggested that you should wipe it out as soon as
possible. Here is the manual guide that you can follow.
Step 1: Stop the
processes of the Trojan in Task Manager.
1)Open Windows
Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Shift+ESC or Ctrl+Alt+Del. together.
2)Search for its
running malicious processes of the Trojan, and then stop them all by clicking
on “End Process” button. (The virus process can be random)
Step 2: Delete all
the files associated with the Trojan.
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application
Data\random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application
Data\~random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application
Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random
“.exe”
Step 3: Get rid of
all the registry entries related to the Trojan.
1)Press Window + R
keys together. When Run pops up, type regedit into the box and click OK to
launch Registry Editor.
Navigate to the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER directories, find out and get rid of
all the registry entries related to the Trojan immediately.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active
Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunRegedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM
CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe
Note: Please back
up your computer before any file changes in case that you can restore your
information and data if you make any mistake during the process.
Step 4: Restart
the computer to normal mode after these steps are done.
Manual removal
requires certain level of virus removal. If you are not a PC expert, it is not
suggested that you remove the adware manually. Any mistake during removal
process may lead to a very complicated situation on your PC. |In addition, the
adware can retune if you can not remove it completely. Thus, a professional
removal tool should be the best choice for most PC users
ZoomPic Removal Guide – Automatic Removal
PC users can getrid of ZoomPic automatically with powerful anti- virus program. Those security
tools could help PC users delete all the threats on your PC and pervert you
from suffering virus attack.
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