How to Remove Microleaves Adware

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The Microleaves application is not a program you should tolerate. This utility is classified as adware. It is a malicious ad-generating software which interferes with every aspect of your daily web browsing. The adware injects dozens and dozens of ads on every website you open. For every ad you click on, the owners of the adware will get paid. They will get even more money for every sponsored website you get redirected to. And so, their tool can also redirect your web traffic. This nasty parasite can ruin your browsing experience in seconds. If you think that the app is annoying now, just wait. As time passes, the Microleaves adware gets more and more aggressive. This app will drown you in a sea of advertisements. Every time you as much as touch your browser, the adware will cover your screen with various pop-ups. It will redirect your browser more often. And to top it all off, it will pause your online videos for commercial breaks. This aggressive marketing, however, has a price. It is burdening your computer. Not only does the adware cause your browser to underperform, it is also jeopardizing your privacy. The furtive application collects information about its victims. It monitors your browsing-related data and sells access to the collected information. Anyone willing to pay can get in posses of detailed information about your online habits. A capable advertiser, for example, can use this data to successfully target you with customized marketing campaigns. Be very careful. All sorts of crooks use the adware as an advertising platform. If you see an offer that looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t. With the Microleaves adware on board, you are far more likely to be redirected to bogus websites than to legitimate ones. Don’t disclose personal and financial information online.

How did I get infected with?

To travel the Web, the Microleaves adware uses the classic strategies. Torrents, spam emails, fake updates, corrupted links, and software bundles. All these methods share a common necessity. They rely on your carelessness and negligence. Were you a bit more careful, you wouldn’t have to deal with this adware infection. Let’s take the software bundles as an example. The crooks attach their malicious program to the payload files of third-party software. That is all they do. Everything else is up to you. When you start the installation of a bundle, you will face two setup options: Standard and Advanced. The Standard setup is completely automatic. If you select it, all additional apps that have been attached to the bundle will be installed without your explicit approval. To prevent this, select the Advanced option. Under it, you will be resented with a list of all extras. You can deselect them and still install the app you originally planned to set up. Make sure you know what you are giving your approval to. Read the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreement (EULA). If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. This is your computer. It is up to you to keep it virus-free. So, don’t be lazy. Always do your due diligence.

Why is this dangerous?

The Microleaves adware is extremely intrusive. It can ruin your browsing experience in seconds. Yet, it may also cause harm. The adware has no security mechanism. It does not verify the adverts it spreads so freely. Neither does it check who the advertisers behind them are. Crooks and hackers alike take advantage of the adware. They use the utility to lure potential victims into online scams. If you are extremely unlucky, the adware may redirect you to infected web pages too. The crooks are targeting your wallet. They will do anything to get your money. You are dealing with criminals. You cannot expect them to play fair. Be very careful what you do online. Your computer is compromised. Do not reveal sensitive information. Refrain yourself from online purchases too. There are phony web stores that mimic the design of well-known shopping platforms. The adware may redirect you to one. If you enter your paying detailed into such a page, the crooks may drain your bank account. The Microleaves adware is too hazardous to be kept on board. Your best course of action is the immediate removal of the parasite. Do not hesitate to do so. Clean your computer for good!

How to Remove Microleaves virus

The Microleaves 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 Microleaves 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 Microleaves in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Microleaves startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 Microleaves, 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 Microleaves 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 Microleaves 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.