Awardhotspot.com Adware Remove Guide (Manual removal guide)

With all kind of advertisements pop-up from Awardhotspot.com. I cannot get into the right websites I want.  How can I get rid of it?  This post can offer you help.

To Have a Better Understanding of Awardhotspot.com Adware

Awardhotspot.com is a nasty adware that will pop up a lot of advertisements on your browser when you surf the internet. It is an advertisement platform created by the hackers to collect money. Awardhotspot.com will attack Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers. Once installed, the adware will change your browser setting and change your default homepage. Every time you open your search engine, it will redirect you to Awardhotspot.com. With this websites on your computer, you may find a lot of banners and advertisements pop on the screen. 

Awardhotspot.com can make use of computer system vulnerabilities and open backdoors for other infections, such as Trojan horse, ransomware and other viruses. By those infections, the hackers can get into your computer secretly and steal your personal information for vicious purposes. In order to protect your computer and privacy, it is strongly recommended removing this adware as soon as possible.

Procedure to Remove Awardhotspot.com

Solution One: Manually Awardhotspot.com Removal

Step 1- Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):

Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.

Step 2- Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from Awardhotspot.com.

For Windows Xp: 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 from Awardhotspot.com.

For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from Awardhotspot.com.

Step 3- Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer

1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';

2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;

3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;

4)  Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Step 4- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 5- Show all hidden files

Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 6- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random}
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
%ProgramFiles%\random.exe

Step 7- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\random.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating

Solution 2: Automatic Deletion with SpyHunter

It can be easily seen that the steps in manual method is very complicated. But if you use SpyHunter to help you, it can save your time and effort.

Step 1- Download the free scanner of SpyHunter into your computer.

Step 2- Install it into computer step by step.

Step 3- When it succeeds in installing, make it scan your computer and remove all potential threats by pressing Remove.

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