Tips to Remove Ads by Protectium

Endless Pop-up Ads by Protectium?

Protectium is regarded as an adware virus which pretends to be authentic and guarantees to improve your browsing experience. However, the fact is that it is an extremely hazardous infection that can only damage user’s PC. Once getting downloaded successfully, Protectium corrupts browsers such as IE, Firefox, Google Chrome and many others and shows countless pop-ups to disturb users. While Protectium gets inside, you will be presented with innumerable pop-ups, deals, coupons, fabricated ads and other web offers, like MetaSearch and ShopNSave, which are displayed on the web pages you're browsing.

Moreover, Protectium gets connected to remote hackers and is able to bypass your security software. It is often distributed over lots of affiliate web pages and disguises itself as a useful program, but in fact it is fake and hazardous application. In addition, Protectium annoys you once you surf online or use previous applications on your machine. It is an extremely nasty adware that can slow down speed and performance your working system and collect your personal data for remote hackers. Thus, it is highly suggested to delete Protectium from your PC without any delay.  

Protectium Screenshot

Dangers of Protectium
1. It changes default browser settings without letting you know.
2. It replaces your homepage and search providers automatically.
3. It redirects your search results to unwanted commercial websites.
4. It displays countless pop-up ads on your computer screen.
5. It records your internet activities traces for future marketing.
6. It can't be removed successfully by antivirus programs. 

Warm Tips: The following instructions require certain levels of computer skills. If you’re not sure and are afraid of making any critical mistakes during the process, please download automatically Repair Tool to fix your problem:

Protectium Removal Tip

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:

Click "Start" to open "Control Panel", then click "Uninstall a program". Then uninstall Protectium programs and other unknown programs.

Step Two: 

Remove Add-ons from browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome).

1. Internet Explorer:
Click "Tools" and then click "Manage add-ons". Find Protectium related extensions and other unknown add-ons in "Toolbars and Extensions" and "Disabled" them.

2. Firefox:
Click "Firefox(Tools)" and then click "Add-ons". Find Protectium related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.

3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find Protectium related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" them.

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 Protectium files: 

%Windows%\System32\Drivers\random.sys

%Desktop%\random.lnk

%AppData%\result.db

Step Five:

Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all Protectium registry entries and keys. 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing “NewTabPageShow” = “1”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Start Page”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\supWPM

METHOD 2. Automatic Removal

To completely delete Protectium, 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 Protectium Removal Tool. 
                                                                                   

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