Remove Lucuma Tech Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Lucuma Tech is the nth troublesome adware-type program that you should keep an eye out for when browsing the Web. However, judging by the fact you’re spending your free time reading removal guides, it’s safe to assume that this parasite already managed to get to you. That is why we have prepared this article – to answer some of the most frequently asked questions concerning Lucuma Tech and it goes without saying you will also find a comprehensive removal guide down below. Even though Lucuma Tech doesn’t deviate from the classic adware pattern (which means all of its manipulations are totally expected), you should know that it’s perfectly capable of causing you damage. The more time it spends on your computer system, the more dangerous it becomes so take care of your machine before the virus gets out of control. Lucuma Tech was originally developed to generated web traffic towards some specific websites thus helping its creators gain dubious profit online. That means since the very moment this parasite invades your PC, the program starts flooding it with questionable pop-ups, questionable pop-unders, useless banner ads, potentially corrupted interstitials, annoying video ads, etc. It is utterly irrelevant whether you’re interested in seeing those web links; as long as their presence brings revenue to hackers, you WILL BE seeing them. The reason why you’re currently bombarded with those ads is because once Lucuma Tech gets installed, it immediately adds a malicious browser extension. Thanks to this extension, every single website you visit will be covered in commercials that you neither want nor need. Therefore, you will inevitably waste your time dealing with ads. They are so incredibly intrusive that if your patience doesn’t run out very soon, we would be rather impressed. Not only are the Lucuma Tech commercials constantly disrupting your browsing experience but they also pose a direct threat to your safety. This program is ad-supported so you should keep in mind that NONE of the web links it generates could be trusted. Clicking a corrupted advertisement will lead you to some highly unreliable page filled with malware so you’re always one click away from compromising your PC much further. Did we also mention that Lucuma Tech spies on your browser-related activities? It does. Keeping this virus on board means hackers get free access to some private data of yours and, if you’re particularly unlucky, to some personally identifiable information as well. This puts your privacy in a great danger so, as you can imagine, it is in your best interest to uninstall the parasite the minute you encounter its nasty presence.

How did I get infected with?

Being typical adware, Lucuma Tech travels the Web in silence. The most popular infiltration method at the moment is bundled freeware/shareware and that’s also the most plausible explanation how the parasite managed to land on your machine. Have you recently downloaded programs off of the Internet? And have you by any chance installed them from some illegitimate website? There you go. More often than not, the bundled software offered by unverified pages includes various unwanted programs alongside the safe ones. If you don’t pay much attention to the installation process itself, you might accidentally download the parasites as well thus causing your machine a great cyber damage. Remember, adware-type viruses aren’t the only types of parasites which apply the sneaky technique of freeware bundling so you might install Trojans, various ransomware infections, etc. without even knowing it. Always take your time when giving green light to bundled software and make sure you’re aware what exactly you’re downloading.  Also, avoid spam messages, random spam email-attachments and other questionable third-party web links you might come across online.

Why are these ads dangerous?

There are way too many malicious traits exhibited by the Lucuma Tech ads to consider them harmless. First of all, as mentioned already, you’re seeing those advertisements because a nasty parasite slithered itself onto your machine. Lucuma Tech is competible with three of the most commonly used browsers out there so it effectively takes down Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Once your browsers get injected with commercials, they are no longer reliable. That means you have to stay away from all discounts, product deals, coupons, price comparisons and other alluring web links displayed by the virus because they might turn out to be extremely dangerous. Due to the parasite’s manipulations, your overwhelmed browsers will start occasionally to crash and/or freeze, your Internet connection may experience difficulties and the overall speed of your machine will be slow down considerably. Is it worth it? Not only are you exposed to malware but your entire Internet experience gets demolished simply because you’re tolerating a pesky virtual parasite instead of deleting it. To get rid of Lucuma Tech manually, please follow the detailed removal instructions down below.

How Can I Remove Lucuma Tech Ads?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Lucuma Tech infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Uninstall Lucuma Tech from your Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Delete Lucuma Tech from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Lucuma Tech from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Lucuma Tech from Your Computer

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Lucuma Tech program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.

STEP 2 : Remove Lucuma Tech from Chrome, Firefox or IE

Remove from Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools—> Extensions
• Remove any unknown extension by clicking on the little recycle bin
• If you are not able to delete the extension then navigate to C:\Users\”computer name“\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\and review the folders one by one.
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• If you are using the latest chrome version you need to do the following
• go to settings – Add person

• choose a preferred name.

• then go back and remove person 1
• Chrome should be malware free now

Remove from Mozilla Firefox

• Open Firefox
• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable and remove any unknown add on
• Open the Firefox’s Help Menu

• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

Remove from Internet Explorer

• Open IE
• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Go to Toolbars and Extensions
• Disable any suspicious extension.
• If the disable button is gray, you need to go to your Windows Registry and delete the corresponding CLSID
• On the Upper Right Corner of Internet Explorer Click on the Gear Icon.
• Click on Internet options

• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.

• Check the “Delete Personal Settings Tab” and then Reset

• Close IE

Permanently Remove Lucuma Tech Leftovers

To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify any registry leftovers or temporary files.