How to Remove SharePal Adware

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The SharePal program is a parasite. It falls under the Adware category. This intruder is barely tolerable. It uses aggressive marketing strategies to turn you into an easy target. Once inside your system, it wastes no time and wreaks utter havoc. The good news is that the adware cannot corrupt your entire system. Yet, it still infects all installed web browsers. The SharePal adware injects various adverts on every website you load. It is also capable of redirecting your web traffic to sponsored platforms. This intruder interferes with your every online activity. Every time you click on its ads, it gets paid. Thus, it doesn’t limit its influence. The adware drowns its victims in a sea of coupons, discounts, and great deals. It doesn’t matter whether you type a search inquire or watch an online video, the adware is always there to annoy you. Do not put up with this situation. The SharePal adware makes a terrible companion. It knows no boundaries. The parasite tends to get more and more aggressive with each passing day. Given enough time, it gets out of control. Do not wait for this scenario to unfold. Get back in control of your web browser. Remove the adware immediately. Locate its lurking spot and hit that delete button.

How did I get infected with?

The SharePal adware cannot hack your computer. It uses trickery to sneak in. To succeed, the parasite relies on your cooperation. It uses bundles, fake updates, and spam emails to trick you into installing it unintentionally. One second of carelessness is all it needs to succeed. Don’t make its job easier. The key to a secure and infection-free computer is caution. All you should do is to keep your guard up. Especially when you are about to install a new program. When available, always select the Advanced/Custom setup option. Many software developers attach extras to the payload files of their apps. More often than not, these extras are parasites like the SharePal adware. You can prevent the extras from installing under the advanced setup. If you use the standard option, however, these additional apps will get installed without your explicit approval. Don’t allow this! Always make sure you know what you are approving on board! Read the terms and conditions/end user license agreement (of course, you can use an online EULA analyzer to speed up this process). If you detect anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately. The SharePal adware, just like many other parasites, prays on your carelessness. Don’t provide it! Be vigilant instead. Always do your due diligence!

Why is this dangerous?

The SharePal adware is not a parasite you should neglect. Act against the intruder as soon as possible. If you don’t, there will be terrible consequences. The adware is not just annoying. It is quite dangerous. This intruder spies on you. It monitors your browsing related data. The adware knows your every online step. Even the Incognito mode of your browser cannot hide you. It’s just a matter of time before the parasite discovers something sensitive. The SharePal adware analyzes your every online action and uses the collected data against you. On paper, if you enter “sneakers” into a search engine, you’ll get ads for sports shoes. In practice, however, you get bombarded with countless unreliable ads. The SharePal adware has no security mechanism. It doesn’t verify its ads. Neither does it check the advertisers behind them. Numerous crooks take advantage of the parasite and its resources. They use the adware to spread corrupted content. The cooks show you what you want to see. Yet, when you click, bad things happen. An unverified advert may arise unwarranted expectations at best. At worst, it will redirect you to scam and phishing websites. If you are very unlucky, you may end up on infected websites too. Do not risk it! The SharePal adware has no place on your computer. Remove it the first chance you get! The sooner it’s gone, the better!

How to Remove SharePal virus

The SharePal 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 SharePal 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 SharePal in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate SharePal startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

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

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 SharePal, 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 SharePal 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 SharePal 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.