Please help! I get the virus. It is Downdapp.com. It keeps popping up on my screen when I open my browser. It keeps asking me to update flash player or browser to the latest version. How can I get rid of it? You can refer to the removal guide in this post.
Description of Downdapp.com
Downdapp.com is classified as a browser extension or browser hijacker that can attach on all the browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari, Yahoo, Opera, Bing, and so on. There are some ways by which this infection gets into your computer：by malicious links or websites, unfamiliar email attachment, freeware or updated programs.
Once Downdapp.com is installed, it will change your browsers setting seriously. Every time when you open your browser, it will pop up a websites and a warning message to ask you to download or update the software or program to the latest version. It will ask you to update the program which even you don’t have on the computer. If you follow its steps to update the program, you may be lead to some malicious WebPages full of commercial ads or links and get other unwanted programs download.
Basic steps to delete Downdapp.com manually
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-Go to Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstalling it from there.
Step 3- Disable any suspicious startup items.
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 Downdapp.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 Downdapp.com.
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- 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';
Basic steps to delete Downdapp.com automatically with SpyHunter, an antivirus
Step 1- Press the following icon to download SpyHunter.
Step 3- Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Start New Scan.
Step 4- Tick Select All and then Remove to delete all reported threat.
Step-by-step video guide for manual removal
Conclusion: Ads by Downdapp.com bring lots of harms to your computer and your own privacy, 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.
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