OfferBox is another adware virus related to online shopping. Like other adware, the main purpose of OfferBox is making advertisements for certain websites. By increasing the traffic of these websites, cyber criminals can get profits from that. Besides, OfferBox will steal your information in order to make more relevant advertisements for you so that you are more likely to click those ads.
With OfferBox in your computer is quite irritating. It will pop up every time when you open your browsers especially when you visit some reputable online shopping websites. No matter what you are doing, the pop-up ads just show up and interrupt your internet activities dreadfully. At the same time, this adware will open backdoor for other unwanted programs to get inside your computer without any approval. Your computer will run slow because of all these useless programs.
Actually, when you download this adware with carelessness, your browsers are took over by OfferBox. It compulsively inserts malicious toolbars on your browsers and changes important settings. The worst thing is that even though your antivirus programs can detect the existence of OfferBox, they cannot remove it successfully. Therefore, you are advised to follow the steps here to try to clean this nasty adware virus from your browsers forever.
OfferBox Screenshot
1. It puts useless and stubborn plug-ins or add-ons on your browsers.
2. It makes overwhelming advertisements pop out to annoy you.
3. It will come back even if you reset or reinstall your browsers.
4. It aims at promoting certain websites by alluring you to visit them.
5. It is good at recording your internet activities information.
6. It brings in other high-level threats or viruses forcibly.
How to Remove OfferBox Entirely
Before the removal, please first back up your system! You should be extremely careful when deleting any file, because any mistake may lead to system crashes and other severe consequence.
METHOD 1. Manual Removal
Step One:
Reboot the computer and before Windows interface loads, hit F8 key repeatedly. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.
Step Two:
Open Windows Task Manager and end virus processes. There are three ways to launch the Task Manager
① Press keys Ctrl+Alt+Del.
② Press keys Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
③ Press the Start button→click on the Run option→Type in taskmgr→press OK.
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK.
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete OfferBox files:
%CommonAppData%\.exe
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK.
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete OfferBox files:
%CommonAppData%\.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\.exe
Step Five:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing "NewTabPageShow" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q={search terms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Defaul_Search_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all OfferBox registry entries and keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q={search terms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Defaul_Search_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
To
completely delete OfferBox, you need to know that the
manual removal above may not be able to remove virus
completely, because the creators of virus are always updating the virus
version.Besides,any tiny mistake during the manual removal process may
lead to severe consequences. Therefore,to ensure a complete and safe
virus removal, it’s recommended that you
get rid of virus with Automatic OfferBox Removal Tool.
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