Remove Prime Updater Effectively From Your Compromised Computer

This post is written to help the victims of Prime Updater that is eager to know how can they delete this adware from system completely.

Prime Updater : Know more about it

• Name – Prime Updater
• Type – Adware
• Risk – Medium
• Symptoms – Showing too much intrusive ads, slow system performance, fake alerts etc.
• Delivery – Spam email attachments, freeware or shareware downloads, etc.
• Infected PC – Windows

Prime Updater can annoys you too much

Prime Updater aka "PrimeUP!". It is considered as a deceptive application that supposedly allows you to install latest updates of system software. This feature of the program looks legitimate and helpful but when you will know that program has been tagged as an adware infection. Furthermore, you may not know how does it install on your system because this kind of programs follows stealth by making use of third party products such as freeware or shareware which do not show their installation list of program that they are going to install because they intending to install an additional program which might be the infection. So you always suggested to use "Custom or Advanced" screen to install new software on your system and also check their security measures or EULA to avoid unwanted installation that saves you from suspicious infection attacks.

Once this Prime Updater got installed into your PC by following various infecting methods to damage the system. After then it attack on your installed web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Edge and other similar web clients to show intrusive advertisements on every opened webpages. It completely ruin your whole surfing experience by making redirects on severe malware or adware infected sites. It can steal your secret and personal credentials to violate your privacy. This adware runs malicious tasks into system background that takes a lot of available system resources. It also make changes into your system settings to do more mischievous activities on the compromised system.

How to deal with Prime Updater?

If you got infected with the above mentioned adware infection then you do not delay to uninstall Prime Updater from infected system by using a trusted anti-malware on it. You can also do it manually by following below given steps which will easily guide throughout the removal process.

Click to Free Scan for Prime Updater on PC

 

How to Uninstall Prime Updater from Compromised System

• Step:1 Reboot your PC in Safe Mode

• Step:2 View all Hidden Files and Folders

• Step:3 Uninstall Prime Updater from Control Panel

• Step:4 Remove Prime Updater from Startup Items

• Step:5 Remove Prime Updater from Localhost Files

• Step:6 Remove Prime Updater and Block Pop-ups on Browsers

• Internet Explorer

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox

• Edge

Step:1 First of all, Reboot your PC in Safe Mode to make it safe from Prime Updater

(this Guide illustrates how to restart Windows in Safe Mode in all versions.)

Step:2 Now you need to View all Hidden Files and Folders that exist on different drives

Step:3 Uninstall Prime Updater from Control Panel

Press Start Key + R together and Type appwiz.cpl

Now Press on OK

This will Open the Control Panel. Now look for Prime Updater or any other Suspicious program

once found, Uninstall Prime Updater ASAP

Step:4 How to Remove Prime Updater from Startup Items

To Go to Startup Area, Click on Start Key + R

Type msconfig in the search area and click on Enter. A window will pop-out

 

 

In the Startup area, look for any suspicious Prime Updater entries or that are from Unknown Manufacturers

(This is an important step and users are advised to monitor all items carefully over here before proceeding further.)

Step:5 How to Remove Prime Updater from Localhost Files

Click on Start Key + R in Combination. Copy and Paste to Open hosts File

notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts

Soon, you will get a list of suspicious IP’s in the bottom of the screen

this is quite helpful in knowing if your browser has been hacked

Steps 6: How to Remove Prime Updater and Block Pop-ups on Browsers

How to Remove Prime Updater from IE

Open IE and Click on Tools. Now Select Manage add-ons

In the pane, under Toolbars and Extensions, Choose the Prime Updater extensions which is to be deleted

Now Click on Remove or Disable Option.

Press Tool button and Select Internet Option

This will lead you to the Tab, now Select Privacy Tab, Turn on Pop-up blocker by clicking on it.

 

How to Uninstall Prime Updater from Google Chrome

Google Chrome is to be Opened

Now Click on menu present at the top right corner

Choose Tools >> Extensions

Select Prime Updater related Extensions and now Click on Trash icon to remove Prime Updater

Under Advanced Settings Option, Enable Do not allow any Site to Show pop-ups. Click on Ok to apply it.

How to Block Prime Updater on Mozilla FF

Select and Open Mozilla FF, Select Prime Updater or other Add-ons by clicking on Menu button

In the Add-ons Manager, Select the extension related to Prime Updater.

Now Click on Remove to delete Prime Updater permanently

Also Select and Check mark “Block Pop-up Windows” under po-ups in the Content Tab

How to Get Rid of Prime Updater on Edge on Win 10

First of all Open MS Edge and Click on “More actions(…)” link

Now Select and Click on Settings In Menu under “More Actions”

Under Settings, screen click on View Advanced Settings button

In Advanced Settings, turn on Block pop-ups by toggling button to ON

 

Following the above Manual Steps will be effective in blocking Prime Updater. However, if you are unable to accomplish these steps, click the button given below to scan your PC

Don’t forget to given your feedback or submit any question if you have any doubt regarding Prime Updater or its removal process