How to Remove Current Me Adware

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Current Me is an adware application. It’s dangerous and damaging, and has NO place on your computer. As soon as you find it, act against it! The infection can, and will, cause quite the trouble. It begins to wreak havoc once it invades. And, the more time it remains, the bigger the mess it makes. The tool’s influences tend to manifest with your browsing first. Since the adware is ad-supported, it turns your online experience into hell. It intrudes on your activities every single time you so much as touch your browser. You can’t make a move without getting your screen overrun with interference. The Current Me tool bombards you with ads. It redirects you to a plethora of suspicious pages. It meddles with your browsing to flood you with sponsored content. Why? Well, its entire existence rests on its ability to make money off of you. And, your clicks, in particular. The infection has to generate web traffic, and pay-per-click revenue to survive. But a mere bombardment of interference doesn’t do the trick alone. You have to press its pop-ups, in-text and banner ads, links, everything. But don’t do that. To trust, what the adware displays, is to set yourself up for further grievances. Don’t. There aren’t enough ways to stress the unreliability of the content, it forces on you. Click nothing. Ignore everything, it throws at you. Or, better yet, cease the incessant flow of intrusion. That way, you’ll clear your screen of disruptions. And, going online won’t be such a hassle. What’s more, you’ll avoid the consequences that follow the continuous meddling. The ones that are, otherwise, inevitable. Your system won’t suffer frequent crashes. And, your computer’s performance won’t slow down to a crawl. Do yourself a favor, and get rid of the adware ASAP! Once you become aware of its presence on your PC, act against it. Find the exact hiding place of Current Me, and remove it. The sooner, the better. It’s the best course of action.

How did I get infected with?

The adware didn’t appear out of thin air. Do you remember installing it? You did. You may have no memory of doing so, but you did. Current Me sought your permission on its admission, and you gave it. Adware applications have to ask whether you, the user, agree to install them. Only if you say YES, can they follow through with the invasion. No approval, no access. It seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not a sure enough method of keeping infections out, as you may think. That’s because, these infections have found a loophole. They still ask for your consent, but they do it in the most covert way possible. Let’s elaborate. The most common invasive method is freeware. That’s because, users tend to throw caution to the wind, when installing it. They leave their fate to luck. And, that’s what infections, like Current Me, count on. They rely on your carelessness, haste, and gullibility. Why grant them? Always take the time to be thorough. Even a little extra attention goes a long way. Other sneaky methods include the use of spam emails, and corrupted links. As well as, supposed updates. That’s right. The adware often poses as a false system or program update. Like, Adobe Flash Player or Java. It’s up to you to catch it in the act, and keep it from slithering in. Do your due diligence! Vigilance helps to keep cyber threats out of your PC. The lack thereof does the opposite.

Why is this dangerous?

Current Me promises assistance. It claims to be a legitimate and helpful tool. One, you can use to get “beautiful” backgrounds. As well as, information based on your current location. Like, time, date, weather forecasts, et cetera. As you may have already gathered, that’s a lie. Current Me is a phony and harmful cyber threat. One, you should remove from your system the first chance you get. If you don’t, you risk getting your private details stolen. And, then, exposed to strangers. Oh, yes. Current Me follows programming to spy o your browsing habits. And, record every single online move you make. After it deems it has gathered enough data, it proceeds to send it. It hands it over to the unknown individuals that published the application. These are malicious third parties with questionable intentions. Not people, you want to get access to your most sensitive information. Don’t allow the adware to provide them with it. Protect yourself, and your system, from Current Me. Locate and remove the nasty threat.

How to Remove Current Me virus

The Current Me 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 Current Me 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 Current Me in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Current Me startup location

STEP 3: Delete Current Me traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Current Me 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 Current Me 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 Current Me 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 Current Me traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Current Me 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 Current Me

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 Current Me, 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 Current Me 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 Current Me 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.