How to Remove Lucky Star Adware

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While surfing the Internet, do you see ads by Lucky Star, even on websites that used to be ad-free? Do you think you are being constantly redirected to questionable websites? Don’t blame your web browser. It is your computer that has a problem. An adware-type of a problem. Unfortunately, we have bad news for you. You have the Lucky Star adware on board. This malicious application is the reason why you see so many advertisements recently. It is using a pay-per-click marketing system to generate revenue. This means that the owners of the furtive program are paid for every ad you click on. Don’t become their sponsor. Don’t click on adverts. You should avoid ads not only because they sponsor crooks, but also because they are potentially dangerous. The Lucky Star adware has no filtering mechanisms. Anyone willing to spend some money can use its services to promote anything, including uncertificated or even illegal products and services. Scammers often use adware application to spread malicious ads. One click is all it takes for a virus to be distributed to your machine. Don’t trust anything you see on your display while the Lucky Star utility remains active.

How did I get infected with?

The Lucky Star adware didn’t appear out of the blue or as if by magic. You installed it. Yes, you did it. Do you remember installing any free programs recently? And you used the standard/fast installation wizard, right? From this moment on, your computer was no longer infection-free. Now you know when the adware entered your system. To make some extra money, developers tend to add additional software in the insulation files of many free programs. They would try to lure the user into using the standard installation method. They do so by describing the advanced version as a complicated and time-consuming process, suitable for IT experts only. Don’t fall for this trick. The advanced option is the only way you can deny the installations of all extra programs that come along. This method is neither time-consuming nor complicated. It is a step-by-step installation wizard, just like the standard version. If you read the description of the extra programs, you might find them useful. Yet, if you truly needed such tools, you would have downloaded them by yourself. Don’t let anyone decide how you use your PC! The Lucky Star adware may have been delivered via spam emails. This may sound trivial, but let’s repeat it one more time. Don’t open emails from unknown senders! Crooks tend to write on behalf of well-known organizations. They would steal logos and fabricate stamps to lure you into downloading an attached file. Be vigilant. Check the sender’s contact before opening the letter. You can do so by entering the questionable email address into some search engine. If it was used for shady business, someone must have complained online. This method, however, is not flawless. Always judge the situation for yourself.

Why is this dangerous?

The Lucky Star adware uses aggressive marketing strategies to turn its victims from visitors into customers. It creates an ad-layer which forces ads on all opened websites, including on pages that are ad-free. It can also hide advertisements by its competitors. Thus, it is robbing you of your free choice of information sources. You will eventually lose track of the current situation on the market. Don’t let this furtive tool turn you into an easy target. Take actions to remove it immediately! You must be wondering how does the adware know what kind of ads to expose you to? The answer is right before your eyes. The Lucky Star utility is spying on you. Constantly! Everything you do online is monitored. Thus, for example, if you enter “sneakers” into some search engine, the furtive app will start displaying ads about similar items. But, what do you think the adware does with the collected data? It makes it available for sale to third parties! And there are people willing to buy it. What will you do if a hacker buys your user names and passwords? This is a quite possible scenario. The Lucky Star adware is capable of stealing such information. You may lose money or become a victim of identity theft. Don’t neglect your cyber security. Track this intruder and delete it as soon as possible!

How to Remove Lucky Star virus

The Lucky Star 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 Lucky Star 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.

WARNING! Stopping the wrong file or deleting the wrong registry key may damage your system irreversibly.
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STEP 1: Track down Lucky Star in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Lucky Star startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Lucky Star 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 Lucky Star

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 Lucky Star, 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 Lucky Star 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 Lucky Star 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.