Friday, June 27, 2014

Get Rid of DiscountLocator Pop-up Ads Completely

My PC is infected with adware DiscountLocator and it always pops up a lot of annoying ads to disturb my online activities. My antivirus cannot help me remove it. Can you tell me why and how can I remove it?
Description of DiscountLocator

DiscountLocator is an unwanted program which is identified as a harmful adware. You must want to ask how the malicious virus comes into your system. Actually, this adware get inside your PC through junk email attachments, pop-ups, malicious links, unsafe websites etc.
Once DiscountLocator is installed into your system, it will display many commercial ads and claim that it can improve your experience while you reviewing video online. But what makes you crazy is that whatever and whenever your search on your browsers, you may see a lot of ads which may cover your screen. These pop-ups can appear any pages, which disturbs your online activities severely. Moreover, DiscountLocator adware can modify your search engine, and your homepage. You are not allowed to get your homepage back to original one. Apart from that, the virus can add many unwanted extensions to your system. Your system performance will become slowly. Your personal information may be stolen by the remote cyber criminals. So you must remove DiscountLocator virus ASAP.
Screenshot of DiscountLocator
Annoyances that are caused by DiscountLocator:

1.DiscountLocator virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.DiscountLocator virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.
Steps to remove DiscountLocator virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of DiscountLocator from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.
2.Display all hidden files so as to remove DiscountLocator's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel
②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options
③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.
Then you will see the following Screenshot:
Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!
How to Open & Back up the Registry

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