Remove Downdapp.com pop-up from IE/Chrome/Firefox

How to Remove Downdapp.com pop-up from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Downdapp.com pop-up pops up when you open the browser? Have suffered lots of troubles from it? But you cannot remove it by all means? If you want help to remove Downdapp.com pop-up, you can read this post and get rid of Downdapp.com pop-up from the system completely.

Introduction of Downdapp.com pop-up

Downdapp.com pop-up is a newly-released adware which is fond of displaying a variety of information including ads, various reports and updates about different programs. And you are very depressed because you can hardly stop them forever. Once it sneaks into your system, Downdapp.com pop-up will stay in your system kernel secretly to avoid quick perception and detection of your antivirus tools. And it will connect its malicious and infective files or codes to your system drive at startup, so that it can be activated every time you launch your system. 

As it starts corrupting, when you open your browsers, Downdapp.com pop-up will automatically pop up. Also, very often you may be redirected to some relevant advertising websites as well. In addition, one thing you may not aware is that Downdapp.com pop-up itself is bundled with some mal-wares, ad-wares or many others. After its activation, other malicious stuff will be likely to get into your system because of your unwary online acts. Day by day, you will see that many executable programs except your browsers work more slowly and the whole system will become unresponsive. Before more destructive problems happen, you are recommended to take effective actions to completely get rid of Downdapp.com pop-up.

Major symptoms of Downdapp.com pop-up

a.       The browser is always hijacked by Downdapp.com pop-up.

b.      The search results are redirected to annoying sites.

c.       The browser settings and DNS settings are modified without permission.

d.      The browser performs really poorly.

e.       The decent antivirus program is disabled without reasons.

Solution to uninstall Downdapp.com pop-up efficiently

Commonly, this kind of adware can use rootkit technology to hide inside the system. So many antivirus programs cannot detect it and remove it completely. For this reason, you should carry out a manual removal. Please read the following guide carefully and remove Downdapp.com pop-up right now.

Step one : make all vicious items disabled.

1.      Press Window+R at the same time, then type “msconfig” in the box of “Run” and click OK

2.      Select Startup and look for all malicious items that are related to Downdapp.com pop-up, and stop them

Step two: Uninstall this program from Control Panel

For Win7 and Win Vista

Click Start menu, choose Control Panel, then double click Programs( and Features). Go to find out Downdapp.com pop-up, and uninstall it.

For Win XP

Go to Start menu, Select “Settings”, and then go to Control Panel. After that, open “Add or Remove Programs”. In there, find out Downdapp.com pop-up and remove it.

Step three: Get rid of extensions and add-ons and restore the browser

For Internet Explorer users

1.      Go to “Tools”

2.      Select Manage Add-ons

3.      Select “Search Providers”, then choose Google or Bring from the list to set it as your default search engine.

4.      Go to Tools, go to Internet Options. Then, click General tab to choose a website like Google.com and don’t forget to save the modifications by clicking OK.

For Google Chrome users

1.      Go to “Customize and control”>Settings

2.      Select “Basic Options”

3.      Set Google.com as your homepage, or you also can click “Manage Search Engines…”to select other website.

4.      Choose Google as your default search engine

5.      Select the “Search Result” and click “X” to remove it.

For Mozilla Firefox users

1.      Click magnifier, then select “Manage Search Engine…”

2.      Find out Search Result from that list and remove it, and then click OK.

3.      Go to “Tools”>click Options. Then, in General Tab, reset the homepage and search engine to your favorite site

Step four: Remove all files and registry entries related to Downdapp.com pop-up

To open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type regedit in the box and click ok.

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems.