Get Rid of PureLeads Popup Virus & Fix Redirect

What is PureLeads Popup?

PureLeads has been categorized as an adware virus that usually gets inside your PC together with spam e-mails and freeware installation packages. At the very beginning, as it can stealthily alter browser and DNS settings, PureLeads popup virus hijacks your web browser and lock your homepage on its domain website. And the default search provider is replaced by PureLeads, too. You cannot restore the original settings until you remove PureLeads virus.

Secondly, as a typical redirect virus, PureLeads virus is able to modify your search queries and force you to visit sponsored websites, whose Internet traffic is related to hackers’ profile. Thirdly, to make more money, PureLeads will generate numerous annoying pop-up advertisements, which keeps showing up once your PC connects to the net. Moreover, PureLeads popup not only affects Internet connection, but also seriously degrades system performance. Therefore, you are likely to encounter many PC malfunctions and Internet connection failure.

What’s worse, PureLeads popup virus also has the ability to collect private information for illegal commercial purposes. So, apart from the problems we mentioned before, PureLeads virus will trigger other severe consequences. In a word, to avoid greater damage, you must get rid of PureLeads as soon as possible.

PureLeads is really hazardous

a.       PureLeads popup virus attacks browsers like IE, Firefox, and Chrome

b.      PureLeads popup virus pops up from time to time

c.       PureLeads popup virus displays many malicious ads

d.      PureLeads popup virus takes up lots of system resources

e.       PureLeads popup virus slows down browser speed severely 

The reason why your security tool cannot detect PureLeads

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And PureLeads should be one of the threats that are hard to remove. Commonly, it uses root kit technology to hide deep inside the system and changes its location all the time. Thus, many security tools cannot find out its location exactly, not to mention to remove it. In such situation, you should get rid of PureLeads manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of PureLeads Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

Open the control panel>find add or remove programs>uninstall PureLeads

Step2. Delete all add-ons about PureLeads from the browsers

Google Chrome

Click “customize and control”>settings>basic options>use google.com as the homepage and make Google as your search engine at “Manage Search”

Internet Explore

Click Tools>select “Manage Add-ons”>”search providers”>set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to “search results”>remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox

Click “magnifier”icon>Manage Search Engine…”>select “search results”>click the removal button

Step3. Remove all files that are associated with PureLeads

%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\[random]

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

Step4. Remove PureLeads’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0′

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallPaper” = ’1

Attention: the manual removal guide requires you to have some knowledge about computers. If you are an inexperienced computer user, you may operate mistakenly. Every wrong step will result in system programs. So you must be careful when remove PureLeads.