Get Rid of/Remove Cantataweb Pop-up Virus Step by Step

Cantataweb comes onto your PC and displays many ads for you? Especially when you visit some shopping websites to purchase something online, Cantataweb keeps popping up coupons, discounts and many other ads to disturb you a lot? Now read this post and get rid of this program to stop pop-ups step by step.

Description of Cantataweb

Cantataweb is labeled as an annoying adware, which should be responsible for the pop-up ads on the screen. If you don’t want to get infected by this pest, you ought to avoid visiting suspicious websites. That’s because usually Cantataweb always hides in some malicious websites, so when you visit those websites, you will be infected by this pest definitely.
Once this little pest gets inside your machine, Cantataweb messes up all browsers like Safari, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer by changing some browser settings in secret. Thus, every time you open the browsers, Cantataweb will pop up lots of ads automatically. Generally, you may think that those pop-ups just pop up casually and you may not regard them as dangerous as PC threats. However, as a matter of fact, Cantataweb indeed can corrupt the browsers and affect your browsing activities. Moreover, if you keep it inside your system too long, it will collect your browsing habits and other sensitive info. So it is reasonable to get rid of Cantataweb the moment you find it on the machine.

Screenshot of Cantataweb

Annoyances that are caused by Cantataweb:

1.Cantataweb 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.Cantataweb virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove Cantataweb virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of Cantataweb 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 Cantataweb'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