Remove Ephemeral Butterflies Adware

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Ephemeral Butterflies is a malicious browser extension. Apart from its interesting name, this plugin doesn’t shine with originality. You are stuck with this add-on for one very simple yet aggravating reason. There is a nasty adware-type infection on your PC system. This particular program is causing the pop-ups, bogus search results and other random web links you now come across. Furthermore, this program modifies your default, preferred browser settings behind your back. Adware is notoriously tricky and obsessive. Immediately after it gets installed, the virus begins to harass you. It all starts with the pesky Ephemeral butterflies extension. This extension is added by the adware without any permission of yours. Of course, you can’t expect from hackers to take care of your online experience. Adware-type infections get developed solely to serve crooks’ malicious purposes. To be more specific, these programs help hackers gain profit. Yes, you’re stuck with this program to help cyber criminals make money. The problem is that every single cent they gain comes at your expense. Now that your browsers are modified, they start generating sponsored pop-ups. All the time. On every website you visit. Do you see why adware is considered to be the most annoying type of parasite? You’re no longer able to surf the Internet, let alone find what you search for. This program constantly redirects you and bombards you with pop-up ads. As mentioned, these commercials are all sponsored which makes them extremely unreliable. Hackers only bring them to you in order to gain revenue. Whether the ads are harmless or not isn’t important. Cyber criminals are focused on boosting web traffic and are more than willing to cause you damage in the process. To prevent further harm, avoid clicking the commercials generated by the adware. Take no chances when it comes to your safety. Stay away from the devious coupons, discounts, deals and offers that are all over your PC screen. Put your security first and ignore the ads. In addition, the parasite causes your browsers to redirect you to unknown pages. You may be easily redirected to harmful websites filled with more infections.  As a result, you could compromise your safety by installing new parasites.

How did I get infected with?

The most commonly applied technique involves freeware and shareware bundles. A rule of thumb is to always opt for the Custom option in the Setup Wizard. Check out the programs that are part of the bundle and watch out for unwanted bonuses. If you spot some additional programs you don’t find reliable, deselect them. That will allow you to protect your machine from intruders. As you can see, rushing the installation exposes you to threats. Next time you download freeware/shareware bundles off of the Internet, be cautious. Keep an eye out for infections to save yourself the hassle that is removing infections. Also, we recommend that you read the Terms and Conditions or EULA (End User License Agreement). Pay close attention to the programs that will ultimately get downloaded. Unless you’re the one in charge of the process, it might be hackers. The Web is currently infested with parasites and they have plenty of infiltration methods to use. It would only take a single wrong, careless moment online to infect your PC. On the other hand, having to delete a virus would be a much more time- and energy-consuming task. Hence, make an effort to prevent malware infiltration in the future.

Why is this dangerous?

The infection makes changes in all your browsers. It takes over Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once its  Ephemeral butterflies extension gets added, you’re no longer in control of any browser. That means you’re left unable to surf the Web and you’re bombarded with sponsored ads. These obnoxious commercials come in all colors and shapes imaginable. Their presence causes your browsers to free and/or crash on occasion too. As if that wasn’t bad enough, you might come across fake pop-ups that advertise unsafe tools and extensions. That’s a scam and you need to keep in mind you have an infection on board. This program will keep on messing with your browsers till the very moment you remove it. The adware also spies on your browsing history and other sensitive data. It could jeopardize your privacy so don’t hesitate. To delete it manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Ephemeral Butterflies virus

The Ephemeral Butterflies 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 Ephemeral Butterflies 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 Ephemeral Butterflies in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Ephemeral Butterflies startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Ephemeral Butterflies 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 Ephemeral Butterflies

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 Ephemeral Butterflies, 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 Ephemeral Butterflies 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 Ephemeral Butterflies 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.