How to Remove Blasteroids Pop up - Blasteroids Removal Guide

My computer is injected with an adware called "Blasteroid". This adware made my browser keep popping up ads everywhere, on ebay, amazon. It popped an fake customer-support website. Please help me to remove this adware. 

Screenshot of Blasteroids 

Description of Blasteroids 

Blasteroids is a potentially unwanted program which can also call adware.This is an ads-supported adware created by a company called Small Island Development (Acute Angle Solutions). This adware can be compatible with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox and other frequented-used browser. It will pop up on the browser and claims to allow users to play a browser game called Asteroids when surfing the Internet.If you agree to download Asteroids, your browser will be hijacked by Asteroids all the time. It will change your default browser setting and then change your default homepage and search engine.

Asteroids pretends to be a legitimate browser extension, while Blasteroids is bound with deceptive software marketing and installs on browsers without users' permission. Once your computer is infected with Blasteroids, it will generate various intrusive online advertisements,interstitial, in-text, pop-up, and banner ads. No matter what websites you are visiting, it will pop up unstopable ads.Besides, it will collect information such as,IP addresses, operating systems, unique identifier numbers, installed software, URLs visited, are just a few examples of recorded data. This will be risk to your personal information. You should remove Blasteroids as soon as possible.

Here are two solutions to remove Blasteroids

In this post, there will be two solutions to remove Blasteroids:

1. Remove Blasteroids manually.

2. Remove Blasteroids  by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Specific Guides to Safely and Completely Get Rid of Blasteroids 

Guide One: Blasteroids Manual Deletion

Step 1: Reset your browser setting

Firefox:

In the drop-down list of Firefox, go to Help and click on Troubleshooting Information.

Click on the Reset Firefox button to reset it.

Google Chrome: 

Click on the Chrome menu on the right of toolbar and then select Settings.

Scroll down to the bottom to click Show advanced settings.

Go down to the bottom and click Reset browser settings to reset Google Chrome to its default setting.

IE: 

Click Tools on the up right corner and select Internet Options.

Click on Advanced tab, press Reset button to reset IE to its default settings.

Step 2: Disable all startup items created by Blasteroids 

Click on Start button and select Run…

Type msconfig to start System Configuration Utility

At the tab of Startup, select possible startup items of Blasteroids, then press OK

Step 3: Remove files of Blasteroids  like the pictures showed:

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>

Guide Two: Automatic Removal with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a world-famous real-time malware protection and removal tool, which is designed to detect , remove and protect your PC from the latest malware attacks, such as Trojans, worms, rootkits, rogue viruses, browser hijacker, ransomware, adware, key-loggers, and so forth. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow. 

Step 1: Press the following button to download SpyHunter.

Step 2: Save it into your computer and click on the Run choice to install it step by step.

Step 3: Click Finish then you can use it to scan your computer to find out potential threats by pressing Scan computer now!

Step 4: Tick Select all and then Remove to delete all threats.

Note: Manual removal demand a high computer skill. If you are not so professional on computer. Spyhunter can be your better choice, because it is capable of antodetecting and removing viruses.

Download SpyHunter to Remove Blasteroids Now!