How to Get Rid of help4u Pop-ups - Completely Remove Ads by help4u

How much do you know about help4u?

help4u is a nasty PC bug that has so many harmful characteristics which may bring quite a lot of troubles to computer users and mess up the target operating system as time goes by. Once help4u successfully invading into your computer, every time you click on normal links or text boxes that website makes a pop up window, you will be redirected to suspicious web pages which are about some online career survey, or commercial ads promotion. The redirection is caused by help4u which has sneakily modified your browsers and system settings in the background.

Ad by help4u also arouses other issues on the target PC. It will cause constant stuck on the computer. Things will be incredibly slow with constant pop ups showing on the screen. At the same time, help4u may create many useless files which will cause the program malfunction, and affect and modify compromised computers' important system files, for instance Windows registry entries for its own benefits.

What's worse, help4u, this nasty pest will record your browser histories, search keywords to analyze your on-line habits and send the stolen information to remote hackers which will put your personal data at a risk. All in all, for the safety of your system and personal data, ads by help4u must be removed completely.

Guide to eliminate help4u permanently

Method one: Automatically get rid of help4u

Method two: Manually Remove help4u

Method one: Automatically get rid of help4u

To remove help4u from your PCs, it is recommended to Download and install SpyHunter to detect and remove help4u. SpyHunter is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using SpyHunter you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

 Step 1. Download SpyHunter by clicking the following download link:

Step 2. Double-click on the downloaded file. If asked to allow program to make changes to this computer, click “Yes” button.

Step 3. In this step, please accept the Licence Agreement and click “Next >” button.

Step 4. After the definition database is downloaded, system scan will automatically start.

Step 5. Remove help4u and all other threats detected by SpyHunter.

 

Method two: Manually Remove help4u

Step one: Stop help4u running processes in the Task Manager.

Step two: disable any suspicious startup items that are made by help4u.

Click Start menu ; click Run; type: msconfig in the Run box; click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step three: remove help4u from browsers

For Google Chrome

 1. In the displayed URL field, type in chrome://extensions

2. Take a look at the provided extensions and take care of those which you find unnecessary (those related to help4u) by deleting it. If you do not know whether one or another must be deleted once and for all, disable some of them temporarily.

3. Then, restart Chrome.

4. Optionally, you may type in chrome://settings in URL bar, move to Advanced settings, navigate to the bottom and choose Reset browser settings.

Step four: show hidden files and folders and delete harmful files of help4u

Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Delete all the following files:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step five: open Registry Editor to delete all the registries added by help4u

 Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter.)

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ BrowserSafeguard \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0

Note: Manually removal help4u is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you have not sufficient expertise on doing that, you may face risk of damaging the computer. In this circumstance, you are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove help4u for you easily and quickly. Furthermore, you use Spyhunter to clean up unwanted files and optimize the computer.