Steps to Get Rid of Ads by PicRec Virus

PicRec ads often pop up on your screen without any authorization? Do you want to remove all PicRec pop-ups and make your browser as clean as before? If so, please keep reading this post.

The Introduction of PicRec

PicRec is a kind of adware program, which can sneak into your system without any approval. Though this virus seems to be a trustful program, it cannot enhance browsing experience for you at any time. Thus, you should not be taken in and mix up this program with other popular legal applications. Once PicRec virus comes into your system, it is able to redirect your search results to many other websites that display lots of commercial ads.
Moreover, by changing your Internet settings, PicRec can replace your homepage and hijack the browser to its domain. By doing this, PicRec redirect virus can collect money for the creators. In addition, PicRec virus is so risky that it will try to induce many destructive viruses to penetrate into your system. That is to say, the system will be messed up totally sooner or later. If you don’t get rid of PicRec in time, your personal information will be exposed within several days. Thus, we strongly recommend you to remove PicRec virus from your machine when you notice its existence.

The screenshot of PicRec

Step by Step by Remove PicRec

Step 1: navigate to Control Panel>click Uninstall a program>remove PicRec from the list

Step 2: right-click on Taskbar and click Start Task Manager>stop all processes related to PicRec

Step 3: remove PicRec from Google Chrome. Steps: click Menu icon>click Tools>Extensions>find PicRec and remove it

Step 4: remove PicRec from Internet Explorer. Steps: Click Tools>Manager Add-ons>delete all suspicious add-ons

Step 5: remove PicRec from Mozilla Firefox. Steps: Go to Tools>click Add-ons>click Plugins to remove all dangerous plugins and click Extensions to remove all risky extensions

Step 6: Disable PicRec’s startup items. To do this, you should click Start Menu>input “msconfig” in the search box>hit Enter. Then, the system configuration utility will be opened. Now go to Start up tab and disable all items belong to PicRec.

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