Your computer was infected with Shopop? Keep receiving Shopop pop-ups? Try to remove it but have no way? Here is the post to give you the instruction to remove this infection.
What is Shopop?
Shopop is classified as a browser extension which can attach on all the browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. It can come into your computer along with spam email attachments, malicious websites and the free downloads like update programs or games from the Internet. Before you download anything from the internet, you should have a good look at it.
Once infected, Shopop will add extension to your browser. It changes your browser setting which is much different from your default one. Shopop will redirect you to the websites which is full of advertisements, banners, coupons, sponsor links and commercial deals, especially when you visit some online shopping websites. You’d better not purchase products from Shopop since there is no guarantee for the deals. And your financial information will be under high risk of being recorded and sent to the hackers.
Impact of Shopop
* It is a parasitic browser extension
* It may show numerous annoying advertisements
* It is installed without your consent
* It will replace (hijack) your browser homepage
* It may spread lots of spyware and adware parasites
* It violates your privacy and compromises your security
Step-by-step guides to uninstall Shopop
Here are two guides to remove this malicious software, you should follow the steps carefully.
First: Stop it manually as the steps showed below:
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 Shopop
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 Shopop.
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 Shopop.
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%\Application Data\~r %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ Shopop \ %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ Shopop \Uninstall Shopop
Second, automatic removal with SpyHunter can a better choice since it can delete it quickly and safely.
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.
Step-by-step video guide for manual removal
Please Attention: If you are not a computer expert or the one who is good at computer, you are not supposed to remove it on your own without any help. Because it is very likely that you may block some important programs which may probably louse everything up in your computer. Welcome to download SpyHunter to help you by pressing the following button.
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