How to Remove Offerzone.click Adware

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You got redirected to Offerzone.click? Not good. While this website is not a virus itself, it is associated with malicious ads. If Offerzone.click pop-ups constantly appear on your screen, it means you have adware installed on your computer. It usually attacks web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Its goal? To generate online pay-per-click revenue by bombarding the victim’s screen with pop-ups, deals, coupons, full window ads, etc. In result of this adware attack, the whole system slows down and the internet performance visibly decreases. But fear not, there are ways to get rid of this annoying adware.

How did I get infected with?

The most common way of getting your computer infected with Offerzone.click adware is through free bundled software that you installed on your computer. Usually, the victim is unaware that there is malicious software among those programs. That’s because this adware is not indicated anywhere in the free bundle for the user to spot easily. Once the Offerzone.click pest is installed on the user’s computer, the victim starts receiving constant pop-ups, the internet connection slows down, as well as the overall computer performance. If your PC shows those symptoms, then you must take immediate actions to get rid of this malicious software.

Why is this dangerous?

At first sight, this adware may not look dangerous. But you mustn’t undermine it as if it is some annoying pop-up ad that will eventually go away when you click on the close button. The threat is real. This adware is designed to eat your computer’s resources. What is even worse is that it has the ability to collect your browsing history, as well as all the passwords you use on your computer, along with credit card numbers and other private data. Which is why you must proceed with great caution the next time you start installing new software on your PC. After all, your private information is at stake!

How to Remove Offerzone.click virus

The Offerzone.click infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Offerzone.click 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: Track down Offerzone.click in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Offerzone.click startup location

STEP 3: Delete Offerzone.click traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Offerzone.click in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Offerzone.click startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Offerzone.click virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Offerzone.click traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Offerzone.click by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Offerzone.click

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Offerzone.click, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Offerzone.click argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Offerzone.click Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.