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Alpha Shoppers is an online culprit, users are quite familiar with. It’s hardly a new infection. In fact, it’s more of an old flame sparked anew. The cyber threat can’t seem to go away. Users began to complain from it, once again. Alpha Shoppers is a representative of the adware family. It’s a dreadful application that makes a mess. As soon as it slithers its way in, it proceeds to wreak havoc. And, the tool doesn’t only target your system’s well-being. Oh, no. It also takes aim at your privacy. That’s right. The application follows instructions to spy on you from the second, it settles. It begins to track your browsing activities, after invasion. Alpha Shoppers monitors your online habits, and records everything you do. No move goes unnoticed. And, don’t think it only observes. The infection keeps a thorough record of your actions. It has access to every online move, you make. That includes financial and personal information. And, what do you imagine it does with it? Well, once it steals enough data, it exposes it. To whom? Well, to the unknown individuals, who designed it. Malicious cyber criminals with questionable intentions. NOT people, you want to get access to your private life. Don’t let the hazardous infection succeed with its thieving agenda. Protect your system’s well-being, and keep your privacy private. Get rid of the Alpha Shoppers menace the first chance you get. It’s NOT worth keeping.

How did I get infected with?

The Alpha Shoppers tool is sneaky. It’s so sneaky, in fact, that you agree to install it, yourself. All, while not realizing what you’re doing. It may seem confusing, but it’s pretty simple. Let’s explain. First off, you have to understand this. Adware applications can’t enter a PC on their own accord. They require user approval to do so. If an adware is to access a system, it has to ask if you agree to admit it. Only if you do, can it proceed with install. So, how does it get you to say YES to it? Well, it makes sure to ask the right way. In other words, in the most covert way possible. The infection preys on your carelessness. It hopes you give into naivety, haste, and distraction. And, thus, ease its invasion. Don’t oblige! Do yourself a favor, and choose caution over carelessness. Every time, you install tools, updates, or anything off the web. Choose caution. It provides a much better alternative. Doing your due diligence helps you keep cyber threats out of your PC. The opposite invites them in. Make the right choice.

Why is this dangerous?

Alpha Shoppers floods your screen with intrusions. From the moment, it invades, its interference begins. It doesn’t let you make a single move, without meddling. Try to browse the web? Well, you better prepare to face a multitude of disruptions. The tool throws an avalanche of ads your way. You get bombarded with in-text, banner, and pop-ups ads. Every type of advertisement there is, you get stuck with. And, hat doesn’t even include the redirects. You get flooded with suspicious-looking sites, as well. The infection turns your screen into a parade of annoying interference. Not to mention, harmful. Couple the ads and redirects, and you get consequences. The incessant intrusions take their toll on your system. It starts to suffer frequent crashes. Your computer’s performance also slows down to a crawl. Going online turns into a nightmare. The adware throws you into a whirlwind of headaches, frustration, and unpleasantness. The longer it remains, the worse your predicament gets. So, do yourself a favor. Cut its stay as short as possible. Locate its exact hiding place. Then, delete it. The sooner, the better.

How to Remove Alpha Shoppers virus

The Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Alpha Shoppers startup location

STEP 3: Delete Alpha Shoppers traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers

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 Alpha Shoppers, 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 Alpha Shoppers 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 Alpha Shoppers 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.