Learn to Remove RocketTab from Your Computer (Manual Removal Guide)

Your computer is infected with RocketTab? Don’t know what the harms it will do to the computer? Don’t know how to remove the adware? The step-by-step guides in this article can help you safely and quickly remove RocketTab. 

What is RocketTab?

RocketTab is classified as a malicious adware program that will attack all the browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Once infected, RocketTab will change your computer setting and browser setting. It will run itself automatically when you start your computer system. When you open your browser, it will pop up on your screen and display ads links.  

RocketTab will redirect you to the specific websites. This websites will display a lot of ads, banners and sponsor links like the picture below shows. Some inexperience computer users may be easily taken in by the discounted products, especially when they really need to buy something. But be aware that this is a ads-platform designed by the hackers to collect money. They can get money by the click-through rate and selling useless products. By using the malicious websites, your privacy information will be record and sent to the cyber criminals. 

Some viruses may also bound with the malicious websites, such as Trojan horse, spyware, ransomware. You will have the risk of download some malicious program by clicking to the websites. It is better to remove this adware as soon as possible before you get other infections.

Explicit steps to help you eradicate RocketTab

Solution 1: Manual Removal

Manual removal is a better choice to make your computer safe. Before performing the process, we suggest you back up Windows registry at first for unpredictable damages or further usage. Details are as follows.

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 RocketTab

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 RocketTab.

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 RocketTab.

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.

Google Chrome

1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';

2) Choose 'Basic Options'.

3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;

4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;

5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';

2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;

3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';

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.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\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_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Solution 2: RocketTab deletion with SpyHunter

Step 1- Press the following button to download SpyHunter.

Step 2-Save it into your computer and click on the Run choice to install it step by step.

Step 3- Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Scan computer now!

Step 4- Tick Select all and then Remove to delete all threats.

Useful video guide on how to clean up RocketTab

Conclusion: RocketTab brings lots of harms to your computer and your own privacy as we mentioned before, so you should get your computer away from it as soon as possible. We sincerely suggest you to use SpyHunter as your help, because it can fulfill threats detection automatically and enhance your computer’s security. Press the following button, then you can know more about it and download it.