Get Rid of HighliteApp Pop-up Virus from Browsers

HighliteApp is installed on your PC without permission? It appears on your visiting websites with many hateful ads? What is it? Are there any ways to remove HighliteApp and block popups? This post will answer your question and display a solution.

What is HighliteApp?

Similar to Quiknowledge, HighliteApp is an unwanted program which is a big threat to all computer users. It usually use system leaks to break into target computers, so users don't know when and how it comes inside their machines. Though HighliteApp promises to give users a better surfing experience, it does more harm than usage.

As a matter of fact, HighliteApp program will change your browser settings on the background once it is installed. Then it will offer many commercial ads which are about food, deals, discounts and some malicious products on your browsing websites. Hence, it is pretty annoying to have HighliteApp in your machine. Moreover, this program may cause hijacking when you search for something online. Specifically, when you click on any search results, you will be brought to some other unwanted sites where cover lots of pop-up ads. What’s more, HighliteApp has been used by cyber criminals to distributed risky infections and steal users’ personal information. So before it executes those hazardous actions, you must remove it as soon as possible.

HighliteApp is really hazardous

a.     HighliteApp virus can attack your PC via system loopholes

b.     HighliteApp virus will weaken your system once it is installed

c.      HighliteApp virus slows down browser speed

d.     HighliteApp virus causes hijacking when you browse online

e.      HighliteApp virus generates lots of ads

The reason why your security tool cannot detect HighliteApp

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And HighliteApp 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 HighliteApp with professional removal tool.

Get Rid of HighliteApp Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

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

Step2. Delete all add-ons about HighliteApp 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 HighliteApp

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random.dll

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random.exe

Step4. Remove HighliteApp’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes "DefaultScope" = 

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 HighliteApp. Fortunately, there is an automatic tool for you to delete HighliteApp virus automatically to avoid additional damage. Download it now.