Bzza Setup Adware Removal (PUP.AD.BZZA.SETUP)

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Bzza Setup is an intrusive parasite which falls under the adware umbrella. The good news is that it is not a virus. The adware cannot corrupt your entire system. It limits its influence to your web browsers only. Following a successful infiltration, the adware scans your system for installed browsers and adds its malicious extension to them. It takes full control and turns your trusted browsers into ad-displaying tools. The Bzza Setup adware is programmed to use surveillance and to open your browsers for targeted adverts. The scheme is rather simple. The parasite monitors your browser-related data and uses the collected information for relevant advertising. Thus, if you enter “sneakers” into a search engine, you will be presented with ads for sports shoes. It looks great on paper. In practice, however, you get drowned in a sea of unverified and potentially dangerous ads. The adware has no security mechanism. It cannot protect you from online frauds. Quite the contrary – it turns you into an easy target. Not to mention how annoying this intruder is. The adware injects dozens and dozens of ads on every website you load. It redirects your web traffic to sponsored platforms and even dares to pause your online videos for commercial breaks. The Bzza Setup adware can ruin your browsing experience in seconds. Do not allow it to control the way you use your browser. Remove the intruder as soon as possible.

How did I get infected with?

The Bzza Setup adware is not an ingenious virus which can hack your computer. No, the parasite is definitely not that advanced. To infect your computer, it actually relies on your assistance. The parasite tricked you into installing it unintentionally. Unfortunately, that is not a bad joke. Your actions got you in this trouble. Learn your lessons. Only your vigilance can spare you future problems. The key to a secure and infection-free computer is caution. Download your software from reputable sources only. Avoid illegal platforms and torrents. Never skip the terms and conditions/EULA. If you cannot spare enough time to read the whole document, use an online EULA analyzer to scan it. If you detect anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. And, of course, do not rush through any installation process. If available, always select the Advanced/Custom setup option. Under it, you’ll be presented with a detailed list of all changes that are about to be made to your system. If additional apps are about to be installed, deselect them. If you truly needed these extras, you would have downloaded them by yourself. Besides, these third-party apps, more often than not, are malicious parasites like the Bzza Setup adware. This is your computer, its security is your responsibility. Do not be negligent! Always do your due diligence!

Why is this dangerous?

The Bzza Setup adware is extremely intrusive and annoying. It interferes with every aspect of your day to day browser-related activities. The parasite floods you with numerous advert, it opens third-party pages in your browser and forces you to watch video commercials. If you don’t do something about this ad invasion, your conditions will worsen rapidly. The adware tends to get more and more aggressive with each passing day. It is bound to get out of control. Soon, there will be so many ads that your browser will barely display them correctly. It will start to freeze and crash frequently. Can you imagine getting any work done in such conditions? But don’t worry about that. If you must worry about something, worry about the things the adware does behind your back. This parasite spies on you. It threatens to steal sensitive information and to share it with cybercriminals. Anyone willing to pay can use this parasite as an advertising platform. All sorts of crooks do. You wouldn’t want them to know your secrets, would you? These people use the adware to reach potential victims. The more information they have, the more effective their actions are. The crooks use the adware and its resources to prepare customized advertising campaigns. They show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. With the Bzza Setup adware on board, you are more likely to be redirected to bogus websites than to legitimate ones. Do not let this intruder lure you into online traps! Remove it before it’s too late!

How to Remove Bzza Setup virus

The Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Bzza Setup startup location

STEP 3: Delete Bzza Setup traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup

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 Bzza Setup, 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 Bzza Setup 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 Bzza Setup 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.