Sunday, February 16, 2014

Remove/Uninstall Scorpion Saver Pop-up Virus Step by Step



Is your browser affected by Scorpion Saver? Do you receive tons of annoying pop-ups? You fail to speed up the infected computer performance? Don’t be anxious if you come across this unwanted program. This post contains an effective removal guide which may help you resolve your problem.  

Is It Dangerous to Get Scorpion Saver Virus?

Scorpion Saver can be considered as a malicious adware program which often comes bundled with freeware, shareware and other suspicious online resources. Most commonly, the usage of this kind of program is to promote ads, coupons and websites. Once this pest gets into your computer, it will utilize many pop-ups to cause chaos.

Basically, your installed browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome is the target of this attack. Firstly, Scorpion Saver changes your browser settings and adds extra malicious browser extensions without asking for your permission. Secondly, it usually displays numerous ads and coupons related to sponsored websites on the bottom right of your start page. This nasty program just wants to attract and mislead you into some shopping sites. Besides, in order to gather your searching words, the vicious adware tracks your keystrokes stealthily. Then it is able to show up many ads consistent with your search keywords in an opened page. Anyhow, your Internet life will not be going well when you get the installation of Scorpion Saver.

For the sake of your computer health, it is not recommended that you keep this unwanted program in your system. As time passes, Scorpion Saver is likely to drop additional viruses and worsen the whole operating system. Consequently, your computer would run as slow as a snail. Hence, you’d better scan your PC and remove Scorpion Saver as early as possible.

Way to Remove Scorpion Saver from Your Computer Completely


A lot of victims complain that their antivirus program fail to remove Scorpion Saver from their computers in reality. To be frank, no antivirus is perfect to any crafty viruses. So I suggest that you take your time to follow the detailed guide below to remove Scorpion Saver manually step by step.

Step1: Uninstall Scorpion Saver from your computer

1. Disable the process of Scorpion Saver; press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manager.


2. Find out all hidden files of Scorpion Saver. Go to Control Panel from Start Menu; type Folder Option in Search Bar; check Show hidden files and folders and deselect the option of Hide protected operating system files in View tab and then click on OK.


C:\Program Files\ScorpionSaver Services\
C:\Program Files\ScorpionSaver Services\AdpeakProxy.dll
C:\Program Files\ScorpionSaver Services\AdpeakProxy.exe
C:\Windows\Installer\{6E810AB6-F34E-49A3-A93F-9E503660F718}\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\AdpeakProxy.dll
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\AdpeakProxy.ini

3. Find out and remove registries of Scorpion Saver. Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\AdpeakProxy.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\{9DC8FA51-B596-4f77-802C-5B295919C205}   
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Classes\PCProxy.DataContainer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\AdpeakProxy

Step 2: Remove additional unwanted programs from your browser

For Google Chrome

Click the icon that looks like a spanner and navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions by clicking Bin button.


For Mozilla Firefox
 
Click Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time to open Add-ons page > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.


For Internet Explorer

Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.