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Message-alert.center is a bad sign. Its appearance on your screen, indicates that your PC is no longer free of threats. An adware application has managed to invade. And, it uses the site as a way to announce its presence. Heed its announcement. The adware turns the Message-alert.center page into your shadow. It doesn’t miss a chance to display it. No matter what you do, you get stuck with ‘Looking for Message-alert.center.’ Or, ‘Looking for Message-alert.center.’ Or, ‘Waiting for Message-alert.center.’ There are a lot of variations. Not to mention, all the ‘Ads by Message-alert.center.’ You get flooded with a never-ending supply of advertisements. Banner, in-text and pop-up ones, ‘Powered by Message-alert.center.’ Open a new tab, and the page pops up. Type a search, and it’s among the results. The adware makes sure you can’t escape the sight of it. That’s not only annoying, it’s of consequence. All that intrusion has repercussions. It slows down your computer to a crawl, and causes frequent crashes. But do you know what? That’s a minor inconveniences, compared to the privacy risk, you face. Do yourself a favor, and don’t prolong the adware’s stay. As soon as you spot Message-alert.center on your screen, act. Find the infection’s exact hiding place, and delete it. It’s the best course of action you can take, so take it now.

How did I get infected with?

Freeware is the most likely culprit, behind the adware invasion. The nasty tool turns to all manner of trickery to gain entry to your PC. That includes the usual antics. It hitches a ride with corrupted links, sites, or torrents. Or, pretends to be a fake system or program update. It can also use spam emails as an access point. The infection has a lot of tricks, it can resort to. Freeware provides, arguably, the easiest way into your PC. That’s because, most users are pretty careless, when installing it. They rush, and skip doing any due diligence. They choose to rely on luck, and give into naivety, haste, and distraction. That proves to be a horrendous strategy, with dreadful consequences. Don’t make the mistake of discarding the importance of vigilance. Attention helps you to spot infections, attempting to invade. You can catch them in the act, and keep them out. Choose caution over the lack thereof. Your future self will thank you for it.

Why is this dangerous?

The tool, behind Message-alert.center, spies on you. It has programming to begin its espionage, after invasion. So, once it settles, it starts to track your browsing. It monitors every single move you make online. Everything you click on, the data you input, the pages you frequent. But it doesn’t only observe. Oh, no. It also keeps a thorough record. After the adware deems it has collected enough data, it proceeds to hand it over. It exposes the stolen information to the people that published it. Let that sink in. Malicious strangers with agendas get a hold of your personal and financial details. Do you think that ends well? Don’t allow the scenario to unfold! Ensure your privacy stays private. Cut the infection’s stay as short as possible. Once it announces itself via the Message-alert.center site, act! Find where it lurks, and delete it on discovery. Don’t allow cyber criminals to get access to your sensitive data. Don’t stand by as the infection makes a mess of your system. Get rid of the adware ASAP, and earn the gratitude of your future self.

How to Remove Message-alert.center virus

The Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Message-alert.center startup location

STEP 3: Delete Message-alert.center traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center

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 Message-alert.center, 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 Message-alert.center 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 Message-alert.center 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.