Wednesday, March 12, 2014

How to Get Rid of M2pub.adk2.co Virus and Stop Pop-ups


M2pub.adk2.co is a malicious adware program that makes your browsing experience miserable. A variety of web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are affected by this unwanted program. M2pub.adk2.co often is bundled with some free computer applications. Once this pest gets into your machine, you will have a difficulty removing it.

The Characteristics of M2pub.adk2.co

  
First of all, M2pub.adk2.co adds its codes and files to your system without your awareness. After hijacking your web browser, this malicious program starts to carry out evil activities. Every single time you surf on the Internet, your activities are interrupted by a great deal of pop-ups. M2pub.adk2.co usually displays some download buttons to ask you to download promote sponsored programs. As soon as these unwanted programs are added to your desktop, a plenty of computer resources will be reduced sharply. Unluckily, your PC starts to run slowly and weirdly. When you work on your PC, it hangs and gets stuck without warning sometimes.

Besides, a number of advertisements with coupons and price comparison are displayed on the bottom of your browser.  If you click on them carelessly, you will be taken to dubious game sites, commercial websites and other unknown websites. In reality, most of them are deceptive. When you are required to sign up on certain webpages, you should not fill out your sensitive information. It is most likely that M2pub.adk2.co collects your data for evil purposes.  There is a possibility that your confidential information would be sold to spammers. As long as your email address is gathered, the awful spammers will send you lots of useless emails to promote their products. Needlessly to say, you surely don’t want to get into these troubles.

M2pub.adk2.co Detailed Manual Removal Guide 

You should remove M2pub.adk2.co from your computer as it is a potential risk. This adware program is likely to distribute Trojan horses, browser hijackers and other computer viruses. The manual removal method will guide you step by step to remove M2pub.adk2.co.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manager. Disable the process of M2pub.adk2.co.

Step 2: Uninstall M2pub.adk2.co and suspicious programs from your computer. Open Start Menu and go to Control Panel. And click Programs and Features, then look for Interyield.jmp9.com and uninstall it.
 



Step 3: Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor. Remove M2pub.adk2.co registry entries.

Step 4: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Then use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

Step 5: Remove additional unwanted programs from your browser

For Google Chrome

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

2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change button to reset your homepage.


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

2. Click the Firefox button > Help > Troubleshooting Information > click on Reset Firefox button.



For Internet Explorer

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

2. Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.

Step 6: Reboot your computer