Remove Spark Cast Step-by-Step - Removal Instructions

Description of Spark Cast

Spark Cast is an advertised-supported program that can be classified as an adware. It is designed by the cyber criminals to make profits by displaying coupons, banners and sponsor links for sites you are visiting.  It provide competitive prices as you are visiting product pages at commercial websites such as Walmart, Amazon, Ebay, etc. Though the ads may be attractive,  you should not believe in it.

When Spark Cast installed, it will display advertising banners, coupons, pop-up advertisements and in-text ads, with the label to notice you that they are brought to you by “Spark Cast”.  If you click on those ads, the Spark Cast publisher can generate pay-per-click revenue. Spark Cast is not responsible for the quality of the products it promotes. You will lose money for nothing. And some fishing websites will collect your banking information for stealing your money.

Solutions to remove Spark Cast

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

1. Remove Spark Cast manually.

2. Remove Spark Cast by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Instructions to Get Rid of Spark Cast

Method 1: Spark Cast 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: Stop related 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 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 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”

Method  2: 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.

If you are still worried about the left over of Siteken.com and want to clean all the unwanted registry entries,  or want to uninstall other specific programs, it is recommended to use Perfect Uninstaller. 

Guide to unneeded applications and speed up PC with Perfect Uninstaller

Perfect Uninstaller is a powerful uninstall tool which can completely remove Adobe, Aol Toolbar, Avast, AVG, ESET NOD32, Internet Explorer 8, McAfee, Microsoft Office, Nero 7, Norton, ESET NOD32 and much more difficult to completely uninstall applications. It is better and easier way for you to completely and safely uninstall any unneeded or corrupt application that standard Windows Add/Remove applet can't remove.

A: At first, boot your computer into Safe Mode with Networking.

To perform this procedure, please restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then using arrow key to select “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list and press ENTER to get into that mode.

B: Follow the below guide to continue.

Step 1. Install and launch Perfect Uninstaller on your PC.

Step 2.  Select "Run" to download and install Perfect Uninstaller.

Step 3. After completely install, you can run the Perfect Uninstaller programs and see all your installed programs details.

 Step 4. Choose the programs that you want to uninstall, click “Next” to proceed.

 Step 5. Perfect Uninstaller is scanning your PC for associated entries. Click “Next” to remove them.

Note: Manual removal Spark Cast demands a high computer skill. If you are not so professional on computer. Spyhunter can be your better choice, because it is capable of auto-detecting and removing viruses. You can Download Perfect Uninstaller to help you uninstall unneeded applications and registry files that the Standard Add /Remove Program can't completely uninstall.

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