How to Remove Adware.Norassie

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Adware.Norassie is a typical adware application. It sneaks into your computer unnoticed and ruins your browsing experience. The adware is ad supported. Hence, it will bombard you with commercials. It injects advertisements on every website you open. With each passing they, the adware will get more and more aggressive. Soon, pop-ups and pop-unders will appear at the most unexpected times. Coupons and discounts will cover your screen. Even your online videos will be paused for long commercial breaks. You will hate the experience. But, wait, Adware.Norassie is not stopping here. This application will also redirect you directly to sponsored pages. It will open additional tabs in your web browser and force you to watch videos. You won’t be able to get any work done. The adware is extremely intrusive. Unfortunately, as it is installed on your computer, it has access to all installed browsers. If you use more than one, be absolutely sure, all of them are affected. Or more accurately, infected. You cannot hide from the adware. Ad-blocking applications are useless against it. There is no need to suffer. Adware.Norassie is removable. Download a trustworthy anti-virus app and run a full system scan. If you prefer to delete the intruder by yourself, you can find our detailed removal guide down below.

How did I get infected with?

To infiltrate your computer, Adware.Norassie used trickery. As we already mentioned, this parasite is a program. As any other computer app, it needs your permission to be installed. What it doesn’t need is to ask you openly. Adware.Norassie uses freeware bundles to travel the Internet. Developers often attach extra programs to the installation files of many free apps. More often than not, these extras are malicious. To prevent unwanted apps from being installed on your machine, opt for advanced installation option in the setup wizard. It can be a button or tab. If you are offered a choice, always select the custom/advanced setup. Only under it will you be presented with a list of all extra programs that are about to be installed. Examine that list carefully. Read the terms and conditions. Deselect all suspicious apps. And keep in mind that you can deselect all extras and still install the program you originally planned to set up. This is your computer. Its security is your responsibility. Always do your due diligence. Other malware distribution methods include spam emails, torrents, and fake software updates. Your caution can prevent these techniques from succeeding!

Why is this dangerous?

The Adware.Norassie adware should be removed upon detection. This piece of software ruins your browsing experience. Yet, it also affects your computer’s speed. The adware consumes a lot of computer resources. The more ads you see, the slower your computer becomes. Yet, these issues can be considered minor compared to what the adware does behind your back. The furtive app is never idle. It lurks in the shadows and collects information about your online activities. It knows your favorite websites, which pages you visit, your search inquiries. Everything is recorded, analyzed and used for better ad-targeting. Thus, if you enter “sneakers” into some search engine, the adware will start to display coupons and discounts for sports shoes. It sounds good, doesn’t it? You see adverts for items that you actually want. Well, this is not quite true. The commercials you are exposed to are not verified. At best, they will arouse unwarranted expectations. At worst, they will lead you to fake web stores or even to infected websites. Do not lose your time clicking on commercials. You can never know where you may land on. There are numerous scam websites out there. They use adware applications to get more visitors. Spare yourself a lot of future headaches, remove the Adware.Norassie adware now!

How to Remove Adware.Norassie virus

The Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Adware.Norassie startup location

STEP 3: Delete Adware.Norassie traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie

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 Adware.Norassie, 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 Adware.Norassie 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 Adware.Norassie 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.