Get Rid of SlickSavings Popup Virus Completely

What is SlickSavings?

Like BlocktheAdApp, SlickSavings is regarded as a redirect malware or browser hijacker. This hijacker will change your default home page to the site search.starburnsoftware.com. Such redirection will occur if you download and install some kind of malicious program. Search hijacker like SlickSavings enters users’ system through programs relevant to videos, browser enhancement, as well as free software. As bundled with such programs, this hijacker is installed in your system and you will not notice it.

SlickSavings replaces your home page with its own search. But it is not easy to get rid of this hijack. And removing this software alone is not enough to solve the problem. The software and the search are separate units after they are loaded in the system. In reality, you cannot find its entry in the computer control panel so you are not able to delete it here. In addition, SlickSavings disguises as an add-on or extension which is inserted into the web browser.

In the following we list detailed instructions to help you to delete unneeded extensions or plug-ins and to prevent your web browser from being redirected to this hijacker’s own site. Moreover, we recommend you run a scan to the system with anti-malware program, which is useful in removing registry files created by SlickSavings virus.

SlickSavings is really dangerous

a.       SlickSavings virus is able to sneak into your PC with other malicious malware

b.      SlickSavings virus displays annoying ads on your search results

c.       SlickSavings virus hijacks browsers like IE, Firefox, and Chrome.

d.      SlickSavings virus will lead your search results to its domain sites

e.       SlickSavings virus generates lots of annoying ads on your screen

The reason why your security tool cannot detect SlickSavings

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And SlickSavings 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 SlickSavings manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of SlickSavings Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

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

Step2. Delete all add-ons about SlickSavings 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 SlickSavings

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

Step4. Remove SlickSavings’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating

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 SlickSavings.