Prime Soft Inc Adware Removal

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If the Prime Soft Inc adware has managed to make its way to your system, prepare for trouble. This parasite is extremely annoying. It interferes with every aspect of your browsing activities. The parasite bombards its victims with advertisements. Following a successful installation, the parasite infects your web browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Edge, there is no immune browser. The adware attaches its extension to them and takes full control. It injects various ads on every web page you load. You must have noticed that websites that used to be ad-free are now covered in coupons and discounts. That is right. That is adware’s doing. The parasite forces these on you. It is also the reason why your web browser opens new tabs automatically. If you think that the parasite is annoying now, just wait. This intruder gets more and more aggressive with each passing day. It will force numerous adverts on you. Your browser will struggle to display the websites correctly. Your poor browser may freeze and crash frequently. On top of that, your Internet connection would also seem slow and unstable. The Prime Soft Inc adware turns your browsing experience into a nightmare. When you finally think that you are used to it, the parasite surprises you with something new. Like unwanted pop-unders or long video commercials. Do not put yourself through this trouble. The adware cannot benefit your shopping experience. Its adverts are not reliable. In fact, they are more likely to be misleading than legitimate. Spare yourself many future headaches. Remove the adware before it gets out of control. The sooner this intruder is gone, the better!

How did I get infected with?

The Prime Soft Inc adware did not materialize by magic. If you have no idea how did it manage to enter your OS, there is a good reason for this. The crooks have found a way to trick their victims into installing questionable software. They attach extra apps to the payload files of third-party software. If you rush through the installation process of such a software bundle, you are very likely to install the extras. It is not hard to prevent this scenario from unfolding. Opt for the Advanced/Custom option in the Setup Wizard. Under it, you will be presented with a list of all extras that are about to be installed. You can deselect them and still install the program you originally planned to set up. Make sure you know what you are giving your approval to. Read the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreement (EULA). If you don’t have the time to do so, use an online EULA analyzer to check the document. If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. Other adware distribution methods include torrents, spam emails, and fake updates. Only your caution can keep your device virus-free. Do not let parasites like the Prime Soft Inc adware trick you ever again. Always do your due diligence!

Why is this dangerous?

The Prime Soft Inc adware is not a virus, but a malicious application. It cannot harm your system the way a full-fledged virus can. However, it is still not a safe app. Quite the opposite. The adware may get you into serious trouble. This intrusive parasite has no security mechanism. Anyone willing to spend some money can use it to advertise. Numerous crooks do. They use the adware to spread misleading and false adverts. One such ad may arise unwarranted expectations at best. At worst, it will redirect you to scam and potentially infected pages. The adware turns you into a target. This parasite not only displays adverts, it also collects information about your online habits. The parasite spies on you. It monitors your browsing-related data and uses the collected information as a base for better ad-targeting. This information, however, is available to anyone who uses the adware as an advertising platform. Can you imagine what the crooks do with it? They prepare customized advertising campaigns and force them on you. They show you what you want to see, but when you click on their ads, bad things happen. The nasty adware is too hazardous to be kept on board. Remove it before it lures you into an online scheme.

How to Remove Prime Soft Inc virus

The Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Prime Soft Inc startup location

STEP 3: Delete Prime Soft Inc traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc

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 Prime Soft Inc, 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 Prime Soft Inc 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 Prime Soft Inc 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.