Monday, September 15, 2014

Remove SurveysandPromotions Pop-up from Browsers

Can you tell me how to get rid of SurveysandPromotions pop-up? My browser often gets redirected to this page. I don’t know how to deal with this issue. Please help me.
Description of SurveysandPromotions

SurveysandPromotions pop up is an annoying browser hijacker which can attack any kinds of browsers, such as IE, Chrome and Firefox. This virus is a fake search engine which often pretends to be a real search engine to attack your PC.
Once SurveysandPromotions attacks your PC successfully, it will change your system settings just like homepage, DNS settings, search engines to activate its programs. To make you use its domain to search on the Internet, the virus’ specific domain will take the place of your startup page. With this method, the infection helps cyber criminals to collect your browsing activities and personal information. In this case, your personal information will be exposed to strangers.
Apart from these risks, your PC will get vulnerable. Other viruses and malware are able to enter your computer easily and cause lots of troubles with the help of SurveysandPromotions. So, you should delete it as soon as possible.
Screenshot of SurveysandPromotions
Annoyances that are caused by SurveysandPromotions:

1.SurveysandPromotions virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.SurveysandPromotions virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.
Steps to remove SurveysandPromotions virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of SurveysandPromotions from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.
2.Display all hidden files so as to remove SurveysandPromotions's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel
②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options
③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.
Then you will see the following Screenshot:
Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!
How to Open & Back up the Registry

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