Easily Remove TowerTilt Adware Step by Step

My computer infected with TowerTilt. Endless ads keep popping up, it's very annoying. I tried to remove it but failed. What else can I do?

Know something about TowerTilt Pop-up

TowerTilt is an unwanted adware which will hijack the user’s browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Bing, Opera, Safari. This adware can bound with spam email, freeware or up dated program you download from the Internet. You should pay attention to take a look at  the application you download and the install process. This adware can take all the advantage to get into your computer. TowerTilt  states that it can help to excel your browsing, but users find it's a trouble to keep it.

Once installed, TowerTilt will change your browser setting and add itself as a plug to your browser. TowerTilt will pop up without your permission when you open your browser. TowerTilt is an ads-supported platform created to promote some specific products. If you click those ads, you will be redirected to the malicious website which is full of commercial deals.You may also have the risk of downloading some useless freeware or computer threats like adware, browser hijacker, spyware and other virus. To protect your computer, you need to remove it immediately.

Best way to remove TowerTilt

Way 1: Delete it maunually

1: Stop TowerTilt running processes in Windows Task Manager first.

( 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.)

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, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

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- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options".

Click the "Under the Bonnet" tab, locate the "Privacy" section and Click the "Clear browsing data" button.

Select "Delete cookies and other site data" and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy

Click "Remove individual cookies"

In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"

To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie button"

To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies button"

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window

Click the "Tools" button

Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"

Tick the "cookies" box and then click “delete”

Step 5, Disable proxy

1. Click on Tools on the menu bar

2. Select Internet options

3. Go to Connections tab

4. Select LAN settings at the bottom of the dialog

5. Under the Proxy sever, untick 'use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).'

6. Click OK

Way 2: Delete it with SpyHunter, an anti-malware app 

Step 1- Download SpyHunter by pressing the following button.

Step 2- Click Save and then Run to install it into your computer.

Step 3- Now, a window of SpyHunter can be seen, you can start a quick or full scan of your computer by clicking Start New Scan. Finally, click Remove to delete all threats. 

Useful video guide on how to clean up TowerTilt

Note: TowerTilt is very harmful. Thus,it should be eliminated as soon as possible.In order to stop further damage in your computer system, you can download SpyHunter to help you. It is easier and safer compared with the manual operation. Its links is as follows.