How to Get Rid of Pc-notifications.com Completely

by Alicse Gen English Teacher

Pc-notifications.com is an adware that affects popular web browsers and displays various ads on the web pages. Obviously, this program aims at popping up banners, inline text, and other kinds of ads, in order to expend its influence. It will provide tools like Deals, Inline, Related, Review and Search which would attract you to visit.

It is able to easily slip into the target machine via exploiting system security vulnerabilities, unknown links, junk emails/attachments, or other unprotected networks. Some users may also suffer the threat from the links posted on social media and unknown webpage.

Pc-notifications.com will download some unwanted and unneeded browser add-on, extensions or plug-in after its installation. Its attack will involve all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. This adware can generate some unpleasant problems, such as endless ad pop-ups, browser redirection and computer speed decrease. Some new processes will be added on add/remove program of Windows to which most users do not pay enough attention.

It is unworthy of being trusted when Pc-notifications.com claims that it will foster a better browsing experience for you. It is actually an aggressive computer threat, which can cause a lot of serious troubles. In addition to displaying lots of ads, the adware can also record users’ sensitive data, such as their search items, websites visited and the data they typed. It is strongly suggested that users should remove Pc-notifications.com adware in the shortest possible time before it causes further damages on your computer. Tips below can teach you how to remove this adware.

Risks of Pc-notifications.com

1. It puts your online activities under threatening in that your search result pages will be replaced by malevolent sites which contain dreadful viruses and trick you to download and install freeware, films, eBooks or other malicious files.

2. It will allow cyber criminals to invade the infected computer to collect personal information and modify system settings freely without PC users’ permission.

3. It invades the computer in the form of bundled malware, malicious spyware, adware parasites, all which enables themselves to lurk secretly in many places of the computer, such as system, processes, flies and folders.

4. It will cause slow performance and expected system crash.

How to Remove Pc-notifications.comfrom Your System?

You can remove Pc-notifications.com via manual removal method or automatically removal method. If you are a novice user, we suggest the automatic way. It will save your time and eliminate the adware effectively with a reliable antivirus program. Of course, if you don’t want to install any additional software on your computer, you can erase the adware manually as well. Carefully treat each step when performing the process.

1. Remove the this virus from the infected computer.

Click on the Start button and select Control Panel. Click on Uninstall a program under the Programs category.

Find out and locate the programs related to Pc-notifications.com virus. Click on the Uninstall button to remove them all.

2. Launch the infected browser and remove the add-ons or extensions related to the virus.

Internet Explorer:

Open IE, click on Tools and then select Manage Add-ons. When it opens a window, click on Toolbars and Extensions. Find out the extensions related to the browser hijacker and select them. Then, right-click them and click on the Disable option. Restart IE to finish the procedure.

Google Chrome:

Launch Google Chrome. Click on the Three-bar icon on top-right of the browser, select tools and then Extensions from the list. After that, click Extensions on the left side of the window. Locate the extension related to the virus, select it and click on the trash icon. Restart the browser to complete the procedure.

Mozilla Firefox:

Start Firefox and click on the tool menu from the top menu. Click on the Add-ons tab to open the configuration window. Then, click Extensions on the left side of this window. Now find out the extensions of the redirect virus and remove them from the browser. Restart the browser to complete the process.

3. Show hidden files and folders.

Go to Control panel again and click on Appearance and Personalization. Then double click on Folder Options. Hit the View tab, tick “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and deselect “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)” . Click on the OK button to apply the changes.

4. Delete the malicious files of Pc-notifications.com from the local disk.

The files listed below areor reference only because the virus may has the ability to changes the names and locations of its files.

%Program Files%\ random

%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe

%AppData%\Inspector-[rnd].exe

%AppData%\vsdsrv32.exe

5. Open Registry Editor and delete the registry entries of the virus.

Press Windows+ R keys simultaneously to open the Run window. Then type “regedit” in the run box and press Enter key to open Registry Editor.

After that, find out and delete all the registry entries of Pc-notifications.com. The below registry entries are also for reference only.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[random].exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\browser hijacker name

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System ‘DisableRegistryTools’ = 0

6. Restart the infected computer to apply all changes.

Suggestion:

Before introducing something into your computer, you ought to make clear its running actions online and take more consideration. Please be sure the program is downloaded from its official site. At the same time, during installing them, please choose the Advanced or Custom installation and avoid any other suspicious programs.