Wednesday, January 14, 2015

How to Remove Ads by ZoomPic Adware Completely



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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