Monday, September 9, 2013

Remove/ Uninstall Slick Savings Popup Ads


What is Slick Savings Virus?

Slick Savings is a malicious program that generates a lot of advertisements on the affected computer. This nasty program is used by web criminals to gather illicit benefit. Usually, it infiltrates the target computer through some hacked free programs, suspicious websites and malicious links. After installation, Slick Savings virus changes the computer security settings and disables the installed firewall and antivirus software. After then, it can perform whatever it likes on the workstation. Besides, it could inject malicious files to the Windows registry so as to execute itself on Windows boot-up. Then Slick Savings adware adds many vicious browser extensions to generate various pop-ups on the screen during your web browsing activities especially when you are visiting shopping sites. Those pop-ups contain numerous various coupons, discounts, and deals and so on. Those ads are used to attract you into clicking them and buying those promoted products or services. Even, those unknown sites could contain numerous viruses that can further damage your vulnerable system. On the other hand, Slick Savings adware will slow down your PC performance by eating up a large number of system resources. Furthermore, it traces your online activities and gathers your sensitive information for its designers. Under such circumstance, your privacy will be put at risk. Thus, it is wise to remove Slick Savings adware as soon as it appears. You can follow the professional guide below.


Slick Savings Virus Screenshot:




Slick Savings virus will do much harm to the infected computer:

1. Slick Savings virus is a dangerous adware virus.
2. Slick Savings virus changes Windows registry entries.
3. Slick Savings virus displays a lot of annoying ads.
4. Slick Savings virus gathers your sensitive information.
5. Slick Savings virus may introduce other computer viruses.
6. Slick Savings virus slows down your PC performance.


How to Remove Slick Savings Virus from your PC?

 


Option two- you can finish the removal job of Slick Savings virus manually.

1. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 Key before Windows launches. Use the arrow keys to select the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then hit ENTER Key to continue.




2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time to open Windows Task Manager and end Slick Savings process.




3. Go to Computer Control Panel from Start menu and open Folder Options. Click View and then tick “Show hidden files and folders” and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”. Press OK.




4. Press Windows+R together to start your registry. Delete the following registry files.

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random

5. Delete the following and related system files.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\Desktop.ini
%Windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framwork\[random].exe


6. Restart your machine

Note: Slick Savings virus is rather stubborn and malicious. It requests certain computer skills when you dealing with it in manual way. Any incident action could lead your machine to a more terrible situation.

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