Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Remove/ Get Rid of StartSavin Popup Virus and Protect the PC


What is StartSavin Virus?

StartSavin is an unwanted program which can be classified as an adware virus. This nasty program will always pop up on the screen during your web browsing activities. So we call it a pop-up virus as well. Generally, StartSavin pop-up virus hides in pornographic websites, unverified web pages, and junk email attachments. Thus your machine will be affected by this baleful pop-up virus if you do not pay much attention when surfing the Internet. Once it enters the target Windows successfully, StartSavin pop-up virus will make changes to both the system settings and the browser settings. It embeds start-up files to the Windows registry so as to make sure its auto activation. Besides, it adds plug-ins, toolbar and other browser extensions without seeking any permission and takes over all web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. StartSavin pop-up virus will replace your start page and search provider with its domain on the other hand. When you start the web browser, open new tabs, or click offered links, StartSavin or similar web pages occur on the desktop again and again. Those sites contain numerous discounts, coupons, and deals so as to promote various goods and services. But you’d better not click any of them which will lead you to the installation of other harmful viruses like Trojans, worms, spyware and malware. What’s worse, StartSavin pop-up virus records your online actions to gather your important information for illegal purposes. Therefore, it is wise to remove StartSavin pop-up virus before it causes great damage and loss.



StartSavin virus will do much harm to the infected computer:

1. StartSavin virus is a harmful and annoying adware virus.
2. StartSavin virus changes the system registry entries.
3. StartSavin virus attacks IE, Firefox and Google Chrome.
4. StartSavin virus shows up a lot of misleading advertisements.
5. StartSavin virus may introduce other computer viruses.
6. StartSavin virus degrades the PC performance and violates privacy.


How to Remove StartSavin Virus from your PC?

 

Option two- you can finish the removal job of StartSavin 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 StartSavin 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_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows

5. Delete the following and related system files.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%Desktop%\random.lnk
%StartMenu%\Programs\random.lnk


6. Restart your machine

Note: StartSavin 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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