100% WORKING GUIDE: How to UNINSTALL "YOW WINNER PRIZE" virus (PUP.AD.WINNER)? Manual Removal Guide

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What is YOW WINNER PRIZE?

YOW WINNER PRIZE detected as PUP.AD.WINNER.
The main purpose of YOW WINNER PRIZE is to display ads on your PC and to hijack your browser by changing its settings.
Today we will find out what is YOW WINNER PRIZE, how it works and how to delete YOW WINNER PRIZE from your computer.
 

YOW WINNER PRIZE usually infiltrates your computer while being downloaded in a bundle with a popular hacked programs or while being included in downloaded file with a bunch of other trojans.

YOW WINNER PRIZE causes the great problems for you, such as replacing your browser starting page with malicious one, browser search redirecting, changing security settings and allowing popup advertisements to show up.

YOW WINNER PRIZE virus accomplishes this tasks by registering virus process in startup or by automatically launching malicious sites.


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You have 2 ways to remove YOW WINNER PRIZE:

You have 2 ways

Remove it automatically1. Remove Automatically.
Remove it manually2. Remove Manually.

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How to remove YOW WINNER PRIZE manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see YOW WINNER PRIZE or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

check installed programs to uninstall

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to YOW WINNER PRIZE in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE virus from running processes

Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE virus from Windows services

Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains YOW WINNER PRIZE in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE from scheduled task list.

Delete any task related to YOW WINNER PRIZE. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from YOW WINNER PRIZE virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE virus from Windows registry

Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains YOW WINNER PRIZE.

STEP 7: Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE from Google Chrome.
Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE Virus from Chrome Extensions

STEP 8: Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove YOW WINNER PRIZE from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.


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