What do you know about Power Handler?
Power Handler is yet another ad-supported adware program that promoted itself as a very helpful for the Windows PC. It claims to allow System user to schedule several activities on Windows PC including System shut down, restarting, locking System scree, displaying an alert and much more. Though, it may sound as a very helpful and useful service for your Windows PC. But bear in your mind that you should not trust on it at any circumstances. In reality, it does not going to provide you any beneficial feature or service as it claimed. Being an adware program, it mainly displayed several advertisements in the header in various positions or overlay on the content of webpage.
What are the sole intention of Power Handler's creators?
The primary objective of Power Handler is to gain online revenues from the innocent user and to do this, hackers generated too much pop-up ads and links that typically based on the pay-per-click platform. The advertisements may be appeared on your screen in several form including banner ads, pop-up ads, discounts, comparison prices, deals, video or image ads, in-text ads and much more having different text under pop-up – "Ads by Power Handler", "Brought to you by Power Handler", "Advertisements by Power Handler", "Powered by Power Handler", "RocketTab powered by Power Handler" and much more.
How did System get infected with Power Handler?
Being a nasty adware program, Power Handler is commonly bundled with the cost-free applications or freeware or shareware packages that System user downloaded from the Internet. Unluckily, free download packages do not adequately reveal information about the installation of other or unknown. Therefore, it is very necessary to pay attention at the installation screen while downloading and installing anything from the Internet. Despite of Default or Typical installation mode, you must opt Custom or Advanced installation option. Furthermore, accept software license, read terms & conditions and uncheck all unknown programs. Through these way, you can easily avoid the installation of Power Handler.
What are the common symptoms of Power Handler?
Once Power Handler get inside your PC, you will suffer with lots of serious troubles. Some of the most common negative traits of this adware is listed below :
- Injects several ad-supported advertisements or banners into the entire webpages that you are visiting.
- Randomly turned your webpage text into the hyperlinks.
- Degrades overall System as well as network performance speed by consuming more resources and memory space.
- It can automatically modifies your browser settings without your awareness.
- Additionally download malicious threats and allows hackers to access Windows PC remotely.
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Learn To Remove Power Handler Using Manual Methods
Phase 1 : Show Hidden Files To Delete Power Handler 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 Power Handler 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 Power Handler 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 Power Handler 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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