Saturday, 13 July 2013

Remove Actual Click Shopping virus. How to get rid

Actual Click Shopping is an adware infection that will mess your computer if installed. Mainly it is used to show commercial advertisements and other paid content (SPAM) on infected PCs. The Actual Click Shopping virus gets into your machine together with free downloaded programs. Once installed, it will alter default browser settings, violates your security and privacy and control your browser to show ad feeds from an external server.
Actual Click Shopping ads will appear on every website and specially on ebay, walmart and facebook. While you are viewing a legit webpage, ads by Actual Click Shopping will pop-up loading some shopping deals with attractive prices of different items. You should not fall for those adverts as Actual Click Shopping malware advertisements can lead you to scam or fake products. Apart from spam, Actual Click Shopping virus is also used to collect your personal information and to monitor user activities.
Common Symptoms of Actual Click Shopping infection:
This kind of malwares usually change your Homepage, Search provider, Desktop Background.
They can display bunch of unstoppable pop-ups advertisements.
Computer performs slower then usual, browser may crash over and over.
Strange websites are automatically opened on the computer after a frequent interval.
Disabled Folder options, Task manager, Registry editing tools.
Advertisements from stranger companies start to appear out of nowhere.
Unexpected browser behaviors such as URL/link redirects.
Unwanted and unknown Plugin/extension or add-ons attached with browser.
Useless shortcuts on desktop or creepy websites added to favorites/bookmarks without your knowledge.

How to uninstall Actual Click Shopping
Remove toolbars, plugins, extensions, add-ons
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox users:
Go to TOOLS and then click MANAGE ADD-ON, From there, select Extensions, Toolbars and remove the Actual Click Shopping if found. Make sure Google is set as default search Provider.
Google Chrome Users:
Click SETTINGS icon and select SETTINGS, then open Extensions, toolbar, search provider options, remove the Actual Click Shopping if listed there. Make sure Google is set as default search Provider.
Uninstall from Control Panel
Open CONTROL PANEL, then ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS or “Programs and Features”, now lookup for Actual Click Shopping and uninstall if it is listed.
How to delete Actual Click Shopping manually:
If the malware did not go away after uninstall procedure, try these steps. Please note, the manual removal method is a bit complex and it can go wrong if you perform its tasks incorrectly. It is advised to run an automatic virus removal software for safe and easy solutions. However, if you are good with Manual removal, do the steps below.
Possibly corrupt registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
Delete files:
Open then following folders or search for Actual Click Shopping in My Computer and delete if found files associated with this bug.
C:\program files
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\

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