Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How to Remove Shop with Boost Ads from PC



Your browser is messed up by Remove Shop with Boost ads? Do you want to clear all of them from your computer? No worries. This post will provide you with a free removal guide.

What is Shop with Boost?

Shop with Boost is an adware program exclusively used to display all kinds of commercial advertisements at targeted browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The malicious adware program often comes together with free video players, media players and suspicious programs. In general, its invasion can’t be noticed by a number of computer users. Once inside, this Shop with Boost will make modifications to browser settings furtively so that it is able to run in the background to perform evil plans. This adware will disguise itself as a good website and offer you many discounts and coupons for your shopping activities. However, these attractive coupons and discounts are not real. 



The intention of this adware program is to cheat you into visiting some sponsored websites so that it is able to help sponsors collect network traffic. Being the same as PowerfulBrowse, this Shop with Boost is not a good program for your computer. It will add a bunch of unwanted programs to your computer. And some of programs would be capable of tracking your Internet traces. They would help sponsors collect your searching keywords and Internet habits. Besides, your searching keywords will be used by sponsors for commercial activities.  To protect your crucial information from being leaked out, you should take steps to remove Shop with Boost from your PC.

Manually Get Rid of Shop with Boost

Step 1: End related processes of Shop with Boost adware. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.
 Random.exe

Step 2: Uninstall Shop with Boost. Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs. Select Shop with Boost and right click Uninstall.

Step 3: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. 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 4: Remove dropped registry files of Shop with Boost. Hit Win+R to activate Run, and then type “regedit” and press OK. Find unfamiliar keys and click Delete.
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
GuardSoftware = %AppData%\[random].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpCmdRun.exe

Step 5: Remove Shop with Boost from your web 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.