2014-04-17

How to Remove Truthaboutprivacy.com Step by Step? Get rid of Truth About Privacy

Is Truthaboutprivacy.com always  popping up to bother you when you surfing online? Do you believe what it says? Are you scared by the message it offers? Want to remove it in Control Panel but none work? This post shows you what Truthaboutprivacy.com is and how to remove it completely from your computer. 

Screenshot of Truthaboutprivacy.com


What is Truthaboutprivacy.com? 

Truthaboutprivacy.com is a malicious website which will pop up on the users screen when users surf the internet. It appears automatically without the user's permission. This can attack all the browser including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Bing, Opera, Safari. This website is created by the creator to collect money by promoting their products like books.And it also display other pop up ads like Hot deals, which can be seem in the above picture. This website can get into the computer along with free software, spam email attachment  and malicious links.

Once Truthaboutprivacy.com is installed on the computer, it will change the browser setting and default homepage. When you open the browser, it will pop up and redirect you to its own domain. On its webpage, it displays a video states that your privacy is under high risk of being watching by other media. It asks you to install its programs to prevent someone listening to your phone call and many other applications. At the previous steps, it will offer you the program free. But  as it goes on, it will give you discount to buy it products. 

IT experts have tested and got the books, but found that it is no use. Some contents are from other books which are written several years ago. The experts also send email to the website guys by asking some questions. They just answered by asking the experts to buy more books to get the information. And the phone listed on the website cannot go through. All of these information are showing that the message on the websites is aim to scare the computer users and to collect money from them. You should not trust it. You should ignore it and remove it as soon as possible. 

Effective Guide to remove Truthaboutprivacy.com manually 

Step 1: Disable all startup items created by Truthaboutprivacy.com
Click on Start button and select Run…


Type msconfig to start System Configuration Utility

At the tab of Startup, it displays startup items, find out those from Truthaboutprivacy.com,then press OK.

Step 2: Remove all entries of http://54.213.74.177/?check=2
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Opera\shell\open\command "(Default)" = ""C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe" http://www..com/?type=sc&ts=&from=tugs&uid=" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Opera.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = ""C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe" http://www..com/?type=sc&ts=&from=tugs&uid=

Press Windows +R at the same time to open Run…

Type Regedit into Open box and click OK to open Registry Editor

Find out all registry entries above and delete them

Step 3: Remove all extensions within your browser
Google Chrome:
Open Google Chrome and go to the Menu button on top right corner
Select Tools and click on Extensions

Use Recycle Bin to remove extensions.

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools Select Manage add-ons and click on Toolbars and extensions


Disable all extensions of http://54.213.74.177/?check=2

Mozilla Firefox:
Run Mozilla Firefox and click Tools at the top of the Firefox window
At the window of Manage Add-on, click Extensions

Press the Remove button to delete all suspicious extensions

Effective Guide to remove Truthaboutprivacy.com with antivirus program like SpyHunter

It can be easily seen that the steps in manual method is time-consuming. But if you use SpyHunter, an anti-spy app to help you, it can save your time and effort.


Step 1: Download the free scanner of SpyHunter into your computer.

Step 2: Install it into computer under instructions. 

Step 3: When it finishes installation, make it scan your computer and remove all potential threats by pressing Remove.

The video direction below can give you a hand



Please attention: If you are not skillful at fixing computer or have no idea about viruses and running programs, you should not uninstall this malware on your own randomly. To the worst of all, you may mess up all your files stored in the computer.But, if you use SpyHunter to help you, things will not be the same.It can serve you well to remove malware. Welcome to install it.

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