Easily and Safely Get Rid of Webcake Adware (Manual Removal Guide)

My computer is infected with Webcake, the annoying ads always pop up on my screen. Will it do any harms in my computer? How can I get rid of it? Here in the following section will show you the removal methods for the virus. 

What is Webcake?

Webcake is an adware that may come with the freeware downloaded on your computer from the internet. When you search on the internet, it will pop up and bring you to the Webcake homepage that full of ads. You can see a lot of coupons and discounted products. It seems very attractive, but it can never be trusted.  It is created by the hackers to collect money. Even though you can buy something is really cheap, you may find the quality is poor. And another risk is that your bank information can be tracked and stolen by the cyber criminals.

Webcake is a dangerous adware because it will bring other infections to your computer, such as browser hijacker. When infected with browser hijacker, your browser setting will be changed and your default homepage will be changed. Every time you search the internet, it will redirect you the specific websites that may be full of banners and ads. By clicking those links, you may get Trojan horse, ransomware or other virus download.

Please pay attention that Webcake is not the formal web site to sale products, don’t trust the attractive discount, it will only make you lost more money. In order to remove it, you can try with the two helpful solutions below.

Remove Webcake Adware Manually

1. Launch the Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time, search for Webcake processes and right-click to end them.

2. Open Control Panel in 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.

3. Tap Windows+R keys together to pop up the Run box, type in regedit and hit OK to open Registry Editor; then find out the following Webcake registry entries and delete:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = “”.exe.dll
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings\{.exe}
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun=””

4. Get rid of the listed files created by Webcake:

%AppData%\[random thing]
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random thing}\
%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\Users\

Remove Webcake Adware Automatically with SpyHunter, an antivirus

1: Click on the Download button and save its application into your computer.

2: Then a prompt box will pop up to ask you if you will run it, click Run and wait for its installation.

3: When it finishes installation, click on the Scan Computer Now button to begin scanning, when it displays the final report of detected threats, remove them.

Video Direction for Manual Removal Webcake

NOTE: SpyHunter is one of the most useful and trustworthy anti-spy tool. It can start a quick or full scan in your computer under your command and expose threats you seldom notice. Once it is installed, you don't need to do such complicated things showed in the manual solution, what you need to do is just to press certain buttons. It's very convenient. If you are interested, click the following button to install it.