2014-04-18

Remove ShopSave.Me ads - How to Get Rid of ShopSave.Me ads Permanently

I got a lot of pop up ads from ShopSave.Me when I surf the internet. I want to remove it, could you help me please? 

Screenshot of ShopSave.Me Ads



What is ShopSave.Me Ads?


ShopSave.Me Ads is an adware program which will display a lot of commercial ads, banners, pop-up ads and sponsor links on the website you are visiting. It states to help computer users save time and money when shopping online. but users find it do more harm than good. This adware is a ads-supported platform created by the creator to make profits by promoting some specific websites or products. This adware can infiltrate into the system when users download some updated programs, free software from the internet, or clicking malicious websites and links.

ShopSave.Me Ads can affects all the popular browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Bing, Opera, Safari. Once ShopSave.Me Ads installs, it will change your registry entries and browser setting. It display as a plug in attached on the browser. It will display commercial ads on the website you are visiting, especially the commercial websites. If you click the links it provides, you will be redirected to other websites which are full of unwanted commercial deals. It is useless and very annoying. Some malicious links may contain other unwanted programs. To protect your computer from further damage, you should remove it as soon as possible.

Instruction to remove ShopSave.Me Ads 

Specific Instruction of Manual Removal

Step 1: Stop ShopSave.Me Ads  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.)


Step 2: Go to Control Panel and delete the program from Add & Remove program

1. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
2. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
3. Click on Program
4. Click Add & Remove Program
5. Find ShopSave.Me Ads list and select Remove
6. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.

Step 3: 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.



Step 4: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all the infection registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "SearchAssistant" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"

Step 5: All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>


Step 6: Clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

Specific Removal with antivirus tool such as SpyHunter

Step 1: Download it by clicking the button below.


Step 2: Choose SpyHunter Scanner to scan your computer after it has been installed.

Step 3: Delete all detected threats.

The video direction below can give you a hand



Note: Compared with the manual way to remove this vicious adware, way with SpyHunter can be more efficient in the matter of time and energy. It can also stop invasions of other malware in the coming days. Thus, put your computer in a safe running environment.

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