Get Rid of Help Save Virus Step by Step

How to Remove Help Save from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Many users are complaining that Help Save nearly drives them crazy because it affects all browsers and causes hijacking from time to time. If you have the same situation, please read the following passage and remove it completely.

Introduction of Help Save

Help Save which is a browser hijacker can be installed in your computer together with free programs which can be downloaded from internet. Once installed, this virus will change your browser settings. As a result, your search engine and homepage will be turned into Help Save.

Help Save aims at making advertisements for commercial websites and increasing traffic of these pages. Help Save will mix sponsored links with your search results and intend to allure you to click one of these pages. It won’t cause any direct damages to your computer, but the interruptions and redirections which are caused by it will make users feel annoyed. Meanwhile, those websites which Help Save redirects you to may be vicious and infectious.

Help Save usually bundles itself with those free applications such as music players, video recorders, download managers and so forth, which you can download from internet. Actually, it’s not so hard to avoid this situation. The most important thing is that you should be cautious enough to every step of installations of free programs. You should choose custom installation and deselect options for installing some additional unknown programs which may change your browser settings. Therefore, you are strongly advised to delete Help Save as soon as possible.

Major symptoms of Help Save

a.       Many annoying ads will pop up on the screen all the time.

b.      The search results cannot meet your requirements.

c.       The DNS settings and browser settings are modified with no permission.

d.      The system operation becomes slower and slower.

e.       The browser is always hijacked.

Solution to uninstall Help Save 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 Help Save 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 Help Save, 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 Help Save, 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 Help Save 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 Help Save

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallPaper” = ’1′

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

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