Friday, June 6, 2014

How to Remove GearScroll Pop-ups Virus Successfully

More Information about GearScroll 
GearScroll is considered as an annoying adware program which was designed by cyber criminals to promote certain websites in order to get profits. Normally, GearScroll can be installed in your computer together with free softwares such as media players, download managers, flash updates and so on which you can download from internet. Therefore, it’s so important for you to be more careful when you install a new program and you should choose customer installation in order to make sure no extra strange applications can sneak in your computer.

Once installed, GearScroll is able to infect all the browsers which you have installed in your computer. It will change the default browser settings without asking your permission and at the same time it puts lots of stubborn add-ons on your browsers forcibly. By doing this, it can provide itself a better environment to perform its vicious activities. So when you are surfing internet, various unstoppable pop-up ads will be displayed on your computer screen. Even though you have restored the browser settings, GearScroll and these pop-up ads still can come back to your computer again and again. Moreover, GearScroll can follow your internet activities trace and record the information like browsing histories and searching key words for future marketing. In a word, as long as GearScroll stays in your computer, you can’t have normal browsing experience. Therefore, you should remove GearScroll from your computer as soon as possible.
GearScroll Screenshot
Dangers of Having GearScroll 
1. It can affect all browsers and changes original settings.
2. It inserts many useless stubborn add-ons on your browsers.
3. It introduces more malicious programs in your computer.
4. It shows numerous pop-up ads to interrupt your terribly.
5. It has the ability to record your online information secretly.
6. It can bypass the antivirus and stay in computer safely. 
GearScroll Removal Guide
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 GearScroll 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 GearScroll 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 GearScroll related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.
3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find GearScroll 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 GearScroll files: 
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all GearScroll registry entries and keys.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
 
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal 
To completely delete GearScroll, 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 GearScroll Removal Tool.                                                                                   
    

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