Short description about PUP.PC Purifier:
PUP.PC Purifier comes under category of potentially unwanted program (PUP). This malicious program is designed to target to involve you in a tech support scam and to take over your crucial information. As you could imagine, every attacker's wish is to make quick profit. This official website seems rather legitimate and trustworthy but it is only fake online services which don't have any existence in reality. This haven't intension to help you or to provide you any service. Once it successfully infiltrate, it will modify your default browser homepage and search engine. Of course, all of these malicious activity will be happen completely behind your back. That is what this PUP do. Now that your browsers are compromised, a collection of pop-ups starts. It will pop-up excessive security alerts, various warnings, notification, messages, etc. These alerts are trying to trick you into tech support scam.
PUP.PC Purifier will gather personal information including browsing history, email addresses, passwords, usernames, IP addresses, webpages viewed, extra. PUP.PC Purifier will spy on some sensitive identifiable data and even cause identity theft. To prevent further harm before it’s too late, get rid of this malicious program.
You must have seen messages claiming to be “Ads by PC Purifier”, “Powered by PC Purifier”“Ad by PC Purifier”, “PC Purifier Ads” or “brought by PC Purifier”, “By PC Purifier”, extra. If you see these type of ads then don't click to watch it because these ads will mislead you to unknown and malicious webpages. At that moment, your PC get infected with PUP.PC Purifier. PUP.PC Purifier will have capability to onrush all the well-known browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.
PUP.PC Purifier once installed onto your system might experience different issues, like performance issues, network connectivity problem or other system errors. PUP.PC Purifier will start showing lots of pop-up & pop-under ad windows, sponsored link advertisements, banners, search suggestions, coupon boxes and other ads on web pages. It is usually bundled with malicious freeware software products and get installed in your system without of your knowledge. When you download/install any freeware application in your system. Then at the time of installation, accept the EULA(End user license agreement) installation process. This program will sneaks into your PC by installing third-party toolbars, downloading e-mail attachments, freeware software products, clicking on ads, banners, domain, etc.
The intension of PUP.PC Purifier is to get close attention of more users to their domains so that the developers of such adware or malware will generate income from web traffic, and would steal information that will be misuse to compromise the user. PUP.PC Purifier will use cookies and other relevant information to gather your personal data. That is the reason this malware infection you have to remove it as soon as possible. You must install impressive anti-virus software to protect your system from various malicious program.
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Phase 1 : Show Hidden Files To Delete PUP.PC Purifier Related Files And Folders
1. For Windows 8 or 10 Users : From the Ribbon’s View in My PC click on Options icon.
2. For Windows 7 or Vista Users : Open My Computer and tap on Organize button on the upper left corner and then to Folder and Search Options from the drop down menu.
3. Now go to the View tab and enable Show hidden files and folder options and then uncheck the Hide protected system operating files checkbox option below.
4. Finally look for any suspicious files in the hidden folders as given below and delete it.
- %AppData%\[adware_name]
- %Temp%\[adware_name]
- %LocalAppData%\[adware_name].exe
- %AllUsersProfile%random.exe
- %CommonAppData%\[adware_name]
Phase 2 : Get Rid of PUP.PC Purifier Related Extensions Related From Different Web Browsers
From Chrome :
1. Click on Menu icon, hover through More Tools then tap on Extensions.
2. Now click on Trash icon on the extensions tab there next to suspicious extensions to remove it.
From Internet Explorer :
1. Click on Manage add-ons option from the drop down menu on going through Gear icon.
2. Now if you find any suspicious extension in the Toolbars and Extensions panel then right click on it and Delete option to remove it.
From Mozilla Firefox :
1. Tap on Add-ons on going through Menu icon.
2. In the Extensions tab click on Disable or Remove button next to PUP.PC Purifier related extensions to remove them.
From Opera :
1. Press Opera menu, hover to Extensions and then select Extensions manager there.
2. Now if any browser extension looks suspicious to you then click on (X) button to remove it.
From Safari :
1. Click Preferences… on going through Settings Gear icon.
2. Now on Extensions tab click on Uninstall button to remove it.
From Microsoft Edge :
Note:–As there is no option for Extension Manager in Microsoft Edge so in order to sort out issues related with adware programs in MS Edge you can change its default homepage and search engine.
Change Default Homepage of Ms Edge –
1. Click on More(…) followed by Settings and then to Start page under Open With section.
2. Now select View advanced settings button and then in Search in the address bar with section, you can select Google or any other homepage as your preference.
Change Default Search Engine Settings of Ms Edge –
1. Select More(…) then Settings followed by View advanced settings button.
2. Under Search in the address bar with box click on <Add new>. Now you can choose from the available list of search providers or add you preferred search engine and click Add as default.
Phase 3 : Block Unwanted Pop-ups from PUP.PC Purifier On Different Web Browsers
1. Google Chrome : Click Menu icon → Settings → Show advanced settings… → Content Settings… under Privacy section → enable Do not allow any site to show pop-ups (recommended) option → Done.
2. Mozilla Firefox : Tap on Menu icon → Options → Content panel → check Block pop-up windows in Pop-ups section.
3. Internet Explorer : Click Gear Settings icon → Internet Options → in Privacy tab enable Turn on Pop-up Blocker under Pop-up Blocker Section.
4. Microsoft Edge : Press More(…) option → Settings → View advanced settings → toggle on Block pop-ups.
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