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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

How to Get Rid of SafeGuard - Remove SafeGuard Popups

SafeGuard is categorized as an ad-delivering program which is able to track your online activities. As a matter of fact, it is not something illicit, but if you are careful enough, you will get rid of SafeGuard immediatly. Never let SafeGuard stay in your computer, it is easily used by cyber criminals for malicious goals.




Why is your computer infected by SafeGuard?

Although you can download SafeGuard from its official site, different kinds of warning will be showed to you. Most of the time, adware like SafeGuard use the same distributing way bundling. Though they have realized that and delete the adware but there are still other unwanted programs hiding behind the one they deleted.

What trouble will SafeGuard bring to your computer?


Countless ads by SafeGuard will pop up to you.

Your browsers will behave erratically.

It will make modifications of your browser settings like IE loading time.

Strange websites are automatically opened in new tabs

It will trigger other more damage to your PC

Solutions to remove Spice Nice


In this post, there will be two solutions to remove Spice Nice:

1. Remove Spice Nice manually.

2. Remove Spice Niceb y using SpyHunter anti-malware.




Instructions to Get Rid of Spice Nice


Method 1: Spice Nice Manual Deletion

Step 1: Stop related running processes in Windows Task Manager first.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)



Step 2: Remove Spice Niceextension or add-ons from your browsers.

Internet Explorer

1) Start Internet Explorer and choose “Tools “>”Manage add-ons”.
2) Choose “Toolbars and Extensions”, then find and remove related programs.

3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Start Firefox and choose” Tools” > “Add-ons”> ‘Extensions’.
2) Search for related items and remove them.

3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.

Google Chrome

1) Open Google Chrome and click on “Wrench” or “bar” icon in top right corner.
2) Choose “Settings” > “Extensions”, then find and delete add-ons.

3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.


Step 3: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.



Step 4: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all the infection registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
 




Step 5: All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>


Method  2: Automatic Removal with SpyHunter



Step 1: Press the following button to download SpyHunter.

http://www.pcresolvers.com/spyhunter.php


Step 2: Save it into your computer and click on the Run choice to install it step by step.



Step 3: Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Scan computer now!

Step 4: Tick Select all and then Remove to delete all threats.


Guide to download RegCure Pro to optimize PC 


If you are still worried about the left over of Spice Niceand want to clean all the unwanted registry entries,  it is recommended to use RegCure Pro.

Step 1. Install and launch RegCure Pro on your PC.




Step 2.  Select "Yes" to download and install RegCure Pro.

 

Step 3. Click "Next" to continue.


Step 4. RegCure Pro will open automatically on your screen.

RegCure Pro

 Step 5. RegCure Pro is scanning your PC for error.

 RegCure Pro2

Step 6. After scanning, choose the issues you want to fix. 

 

Note: 

Manual removal Spice Nice Popups refers to key parts of computer system. Any error step may lead to system crash. If you don’t have sufficient expertise in dealing with the manual removal. Install Spyhunter can be your better choice, because it is capable of auto-detecting and removing viruses. You can also Download RegCure Pro to help you optimize the computer.


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