Thursday, July 23, 2015

How to remove SmartPurple Ads from PC?

What is SmartPurple? Can it be trusted?

SmartPurple is usually categorized as a potentially unwanted adware applicant, which aims at generating pay-per-click revenue. Cyber criminals uses this threat as their important weapon to attack the targeted PC and gain full control over it. It is a large threat if the computer security in that enables cyber criminals to spy on their browser activities. It can damage the system by destructing system files, modifying system security settings and affecting the PC right from the system boot to disable process.

When having SmartPurple adware on the system, the speed of your computer would be slowed down, because it need to present a great amount of ads or links, it will consume a great deal of system performance. When you visit shopping websites, like Ebay, Amazon, Walmart this ads or links would appear every now and then. This is not surprising as people who are shopping online are much more likely to click on the messages that offer discounts. Most of this ads are stunt to cheat you to click. Once you click on them, some unknown malicious programs may download automatically or you may be redirected to dubious websites.

Besides, it will also distribute annoying bogus information, such as fake flash video downloader install request, fake virus infection warning message, fake lottery-wining message or any other kind of pop-up ads. The purpose of the fake Get-system-alert.com popup message is to deceive computer users and trick them to click on the bogus buttons or download more potentially unwanted program, adware to reach the goal of generating web traffic.

If your own antivirus program doesn’t work, you can try to use SpyHunter. SpyHunter responds with advanced technology to stay one step ahead of today’s malware threats. It will also offers additional customization capabilities to ensure every user is able to custom tailor SpyHunter to fit their specific needs.

How to remove SmartPurple Ads from PC?

Method 1. Remove SmartPurple Ads manually (Involve in complicated steps)
Method 2. Remove SmartPurple Ads automatically with SpyHunter(Easy and safe)
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 Method 1. Remove SmartPurple manually
Step 1. Start your computer with Safe Mode NetWorking and end related process

1) Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then using arrow key to select “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list and press ENTER to get into that mode.

2)End up the running processes of SmartPurple in Windows Task Manager.

Press Ctrl+sShift+Esc or Ctrl+Alt+Delete to open Windows Task Manager, find malicious processes and click End Process.

Step 2. Uninstall SmartPurple from your window

Windows 7/Vista users:

Click “Start” (“Windows Logo” in the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose “Control Panel”.
Locate “Programs”, “Uninstall a Program”.
Look for suspicious or unfamiliar program, select this entry and click Uninstall.

Windows 8 users:

Click “Charms bar”, choose “Settings” and click “Control Panel”.
Locate and click “Uninstall a program”
Look for suspicious or unfamiliar related program, select its entry and click Uninstall.

Windows XP:

Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and click “Control Panel”.
2. Locate and click “Add or Remove Programs”.
3. Search for the potentially unwanted program and uninstall it by clicking the “Remove” button.

Mac OSX:

1. Click “Finder”, in the opened screen and select “Applications”.
2. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select “Empty Trash”.
3. In the uninstall programs window, look for ” SmartPurple ” and uninstall it by clicking “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

Step 3. Disable SmartPurple from your browser

Open Google Chrome

In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
Remove the Music Search by clicking on the little recycle bin
Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

Open Mozilla Firefox

Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
Disable the unwanted Extension
Go to Help
Then Troubleshoot information
Click on Reset Firefox

Open Internet Explorer

On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
Click on Internet options
go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

Method 2. Remove SmartPurple with SpyHunter
Step 1. Download SpyHunter to have a full scan

SpyHunter is a legitimate, real-time anti-spyware application designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats.

1) Click the below button to download SpyHunter
2) Double click on SpyHunter-Installer.exe to install the program.
3) Open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now! to allow the program to start a scan on your computer.
4) When the scan is completed, all the threats in your computer are successfully detected. Tick Fix Threats button to uninstall it.

Step 2. Download RegCure Pro to optimize your system

 The function of RegCure Pro :

a) Speed up your computer
b) Optimize the performance of computer
c) Remove malware and virus
d) Defrag memory
e) Clean up your computer

1) Click the below button to download the file.
2) Run the RegCure Pro Setup Application and click the Yes button to install the program step by step.
3) Check all the scan settings and then click on the Click to Start Scan button to run a system scan on your computer.
4) When the system scan is done, click on Fix All button to completely remove all the performance problems in your computer.

Summary: Adware SmartPurple is a nasty item, if it has sneaked into computer, your online life would be greatly disturbed, your computer may even crash down. Thus, remove it as fast as you can.

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