How to Remove ProtectedSurf Pop-ups Virus Completely

Know More about ProtectedSurf 

ProtectedSurf is considered as a tricky adware program which can be installed in your computer together with certain free softwares like media players and flash updates which you can download from internet. Therefore, it’s so important for you to pay more attention about what you have downloaded or installed. You download programs from formal websites and choose customer installation all the time to make sure no additional strange applications can sneak in your computer. 

Once installed, ProtectedSurf has the ability to infect all the browsers which you have installed in your computer. It changes your default browser settings without asking your permission. Meanwhile, it puts lots of useless and harmful add-ons on your browsers in order to achieve its promotion purpose better. Therefore, when you are browsing websites, countless unwanted pop-up ads will be displayed on your computer screen. No matter how many times you try to close these pop-ups, they still can come back again and again. So your browsing experience will become very disturbing. Moreover, ProtectedSurf can follow your online trace and record your internet activities information like cookies and browsing habits. It will apply your information to future marketing or it may expose your privacy to unknown third parties for getting illegal money. In a word, it’s unwise for you to keep ProtectedSurf in your computer. So you really should take proper methods to remove ProtectedSurf from your computer as soon as possible.

ProtectedSurf Screenshot 

Terrible Sides of ProtectedSurf
1. It changes default browser settings without letting you know.
2. It puts lots of stubborn add-ons on your browsers automatically.
3. It brings in other malicious programs in your computer.
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. 

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How to Remove ProtectedSurf Quickly

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 ProtectedSurf 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 ProtectedSurf 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 ProtectedSurf related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.

3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find ProtectedSurf 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 ProtectedSurf files: 

%AllUsersProfile%\AppData\Temp\random

%AllUsersProfile%\AppData\Roaming\random

Step Five:

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpCmdRun.exe

METHOD 2. Automatic Removal
To completely delete ProtectedSurf, 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 ProtectedSurf Removal Tool. 
                                                                                   

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