How to Remove Demoney

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Demoney is a dangerous adware application. It reels you in with bogus promises. Then, falls short on each one. The program suggests that, with its help, you can save money. Supposedly, it improves your online experience. And, as an added bonus, you save money. How? Well, the tool floods your screen with news of sales. It displays the best deals and bargains online. Also, offers you coupons, you can take advantage of. Or, so it says. But can you, in actuality, take advantage of them? Well, the answer is ‘No.’ And, that’s because, if you click on the pop-up that reads ‘coupon 20% off,’ you don’t get a coupon for 20% off. You get malware. All the pop-up, in-text, and banner ads, you see, are hazardous. They harbor malicious program that can’t wait to invade your PC. And, do you know what? Your click lets them right in. If you press a single pop-up, by accident or choice, that’s it. You gain more unwanted malware. That’s because, a click equals you giving consent. It’s, as though, you agree to the installment of the infection, using the pop-up as a shield. The same dangers lurk behind the third-party pages that get forced on you, non-stop. They are not trustworthy. Acknowledge them as unreliable and dangerous, and ignore them. Or, better yet, make them stop. If you remove the Demoney program from your PC, the interferences stop. So, do that! And, you best, do it fast. The longer the application remains, the more it messes up your system. Do yourself a favor, and take action against the adware plague ASAP!

How did I get infected with?

Demoney turns to the usual antics to invade. The old but gold means assist it in its sneaky attempts. Take for example, the most common one. Freeware. The program lurks behind the freeware, and uses it as a shield to conceal its presence. And, if you’re not vigilant enough to spot it, it slips by you unnoticed. And, you only become aware of the invasion after the pop-ups start flooding in. So, do yourself a favor, and make sure you are, in fact, cautious. Pay extra attention when dealing with freeware. Read the terms and conditions. Know what you say YES to. If you give into naivety and rely on luck, odds are, you’ll end up with a threat. Don’t choose carelessness over caution. Distraction, naivety, and haste lead to infections slithering into your PC. Vigilance and due diligence help to keep them out. Other common means of infiltration include spam emails and fake updates. As well as, corrupted sites or links. Always be on your guard, when allowing anything off the web into your PC.

Why is this dangerous?

The Demoney extension gets promoted by a malicious JavaScript code from the Defertank.com site. Once the nasty program gets forced on your computer, that website becomes your shadow. The adware redirects you to it, constantly. Open a new tab, search the web, do anything at all, and you see it. It even replaces your default homepage and search engine. Defertank.com becomes the bane of your browsing. Due to the endless redirects, and flood of ads, you suffer further consequences. Your system starts to crash all the time. Your computer slows down to a crawl. It’s mess. And, though, these issues are quite an annoyance. They’re not the worst ones you face. They seem a walk in the park, compared to the security risk, the adware places on you. The Demoney menace follows programming to spy on you. It starts as soon as it invades. The tool tracks your every online move, and records it. Once it deems it has collected enough data, it sends it. Oh, yes! First, it steals information from you. Then, it exposes it to strangers. The third parties that published it, to be precise. That means, cyber criminals with agendas get access to your private life. Are you going to allow that? Or, would you rather your privacy remain private? Do what’s best for you, and your system, and pick the latter. Delete the Demoney cyber plague at once.

How to Remove Demoney virus

The Demoney 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 Demoney 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 Demoney in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Demoney startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Demoney 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 Demoney

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 Demoney, 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 Demoney 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 Demoney 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.