Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Effective Ways to Remove Zombie Alert Virus

If you find pop-up ads stating that they are brought by Zombie Alert appear on your the web pages you are viewing again and again, then your computer is infected with Zombie Alert virus. Do you know what is Zombie Alert and what can it do to your PC? Also, how can you deal with it? This post will provide you more information about Zombie Alert as well as offer you effective methods to remove it from your machine.  

What is Zombie Alert?


Zombie Alert is commonly defined as a sort of adware program and viewed as an extension installed on the Internet browser as well. Generally speaking, when you download the free soft wares from the Internet, you may accidentally download Zombie Alert as well for it is usually bundled with the free applications provided on the Internet. Zombie Alert itself actually is less harmful than other malware since it does not do harm to other computers. Sometimes, you may think it is useful to you and you can take advantage of it but on the contrary, it is not. It seems that Zombie Alert is helpful, but once installed your computer it will:
(1)Frequently pop up various advertisements.

(2)Offer you unsafe links to unknown websites.

(3)Change your default settings, etc.

You will find your computer somehow be installed with other malware for Zombie Alert changes your browser settings and make system bugs and holes in your PC. Thus, your searching activities will be collected and your personal data will be in a state of great danger. So it is advised that you get rid of Zombie Alert in time. If you want to remove it from your PC and have no idea about how to deal with Zombie Alert, you could take a minute to follow the tips listed below to delete it effectively.


Solution One

Remove Zombie Alert manually

Note

The Zombie Alert manual removal is only suggested for experienced computer users because it requires sufficient skills to edit registry entries and system files, and any wrong operations will lead to unexpected problems. So if you are not skilled in removing the ads manually, come to next solution please.



Solution Two( highly recommend) 

Remove Zombie Alert with SpyHunter effectively




Solution One

Step 1 Stop the process from Task Manager

Some related process generated by Zombie Alert:

zombiealert_0104_FR-69f356bd.exe
ZombieAlert.exe
zombiealert_us_0204-a4d63454.exe
uninstall.exe
ZombieAlertService.exe
ZombieAlert64.exe
Setup.exe

For Windows XP users:

(1) Click Start and Click Run.



(2) Enter “taskmgr” in pop-up box and click “OK”.


(3) In“Windows Task Manager”,click “Processes”.



(4)Find out the unwanted programs and remove them. 


For Windows 7 users:

(1) Press “Window”key and“R”at the same time and enter“taskmgr” in the open box then“OK”.



(2)Find out the unwanted programs and remove them.  



Step 2 Uninstall unwanted program from Control Panel

(Go to the “Start” menu, select “Control Panel”. Locate “Programs”. If there is anything related to Zombie Alert on the list of your Programs, then select it and uninstall it.)






Step 3 Check your browser and then disable/remove relevant add-ons 

Google Chrome :

(1) Click on Customize icon (Wrench or 3 bar icon) -> Select Settings -> Go to Extensions tab;

(2). Locate Zombie Alert and select it -> click Trash button to remove this extension.


Mozilla Firefox :

(1)Click on the orange Firefox button on the upper left corner of the browser -> hit Add-ons;

(2) Go to Extensions tab ->select Zombie Alert ->Click Remove;



Internet Explorer :

(1) Click on the Tools -> select Manage Add-ons;

(2)Go to Toolbars and Extensions tab ->right click on Zombie Alert -> select Disable in the drop-down menu;



Step 4 Disable suspicious entries created by Zombie Alert

Click Start menu>click Run;>type “regedit” in the Run box>click OK to open Registry Editor> Delete all entries generated by Zombie Alert

HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\BROWSER HELPER OBJECTS\{RANDOM}PUP.Optional.Ads by Nosibays.A HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXT\SETTINGS\{RANDOM}HKCU\SOFTWARE\INSTALLEDBROWSEREXTENSIONS\



Remove Ads by Brander Spy Hunter

(1)Click the Download Button to obtain Spyhunter.





(2) When the download is finished, double click Spyhunter-Installer.exe then follow its installation instructions.





(3) when Spyhunter is successfully installed, click Start New Scan button to detect Zombie Alert and other related programs.





(4) Remove all the detected potentially harmful programs by clicking Fix Threats button.




Summary:

Zombie Alert removal should be done speedily so as to prevent unnecessary troubles. If you have no experience to handle with the manual removal, you are strongly suggested to erase Zombie Alert with security tool – SpyHunter.

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