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Spider Sally is a dubious application that brings along nothing but trouble. Classified as an adware-type infection, this thing is no threat to be taken lightly. Instead of keeping a parasite on your machine, tackle the intruder right away. Spider Sally claims to help you “play and search for awesome, free games”. Needless to say, it does none of that. Adware’s very last purpose is to be beneficial for you. In fact, these programs get developed to help cyber crooks gain profit. Yes, hackers are currently using your very own PC system to make money. The Spider Sally virus modifies all your browsers and injects them with sponsored ads. Unfortunately, you’re about to witness a huge pile of irritating pop-up ads in all shapes imaginable. There’s no getting rid of advertisements as your PC screen is covered with them. Pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads. Consider browsing the Internet no longer enjoyable. It is also no longer safe. Spider Sally messes with your default browser settings. In addition, all modifications happen behind your back. That means you’re not the one in charge of your browsing experience anymore. Hackers are. And you could be more than positive they will find ways to cause you damage. For starters, the Spider Sally virus adds a browser extension. By installing this malicious plugin, the parasite brings along the ads. As mentioned, that includes one rather impressive parade of commercials. What the pop-ups have in common is the fact they are unreliable. After all, an ad that gets generated by a parasite can’t be considered safe. Restrain yourself from clicking the Spider Sally commercials unless you want to test out the limits of your luck. Some of the ads are, without a doubt, corrupted. Others may turn out to be harmless. As you can see, though, clicking is a nasty game of cyber Russian roulette. Take no chances when it comes to your safety. Be cautious and avoid the ads regardless of how attractive they seem. Note that these commercials get displayed so crooks could boost web traffic to some specific pages. Helping you save time or money online is certainly not what adware is about. Spider Sally covers your PC screen with sponsored ads but it also jeopardizes your privacy. The parasite successfully monitors some of your personal details such as browsing history, usernames, passwords. It could attempt to steal your bank account too. Parasites are unpredictable so instead of hesitating, you have to take measures.

How did I get infected with?

More often than not, viruses rely on software bundles to travel the Web. Have you recently downloaded some suspicious freeware/shareware bundle off of the Internet? The Spider Sally pest might have been hidden in there. You see, this is a notoriously popular malware infiltration method. It allows parasites to travel the Web in silence and to infect you behind your back. To protect your PC in the future, opt for the Custom or Advanced option. Don’t skip any installation steps as that exposes your machine to infections. Trust us when we say, it’s a lot easier to spot and deselect a potential virus than to delete infections afterwards. Do yourself a favor by paying attention. You won’t regret it. If you come across some additional programs in the bundle, you have a chance to prevent virus installation. Do not let sneaky cyber parasites cause you trouble. Instead, watch out for infections and stay away from unverified program bundles. Also, always take your time to make sure you’re aware what terms and conditions you accept. Automatically clicking the “I accept” button is something many people do. However, that’s how they often let loose nasty computer parasites.

Why is this dangerous?

Your once trusty browsers now start generating the Spider Sally pop-ups. That includes Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. As if that wasn’t bad enough, your browsers might start redirecting you to malicious pages. Your permission (or the lack of it) has nothing to do with these changes. Spider Sally is taking over your entire online experience and makes surfing the Web extremely problematic. This nuisance might serve as a back door to infections so keeping it onto your computer may worsen your situation significantly. In addition, you have to keep in mind that the Spider Sally pop-ups are sponsored and highly questionable. There are some corrupted, fake ones among them, so be careful. Ignore these devious commercials and get rid of the adware. You will find our detailed manual removal guide down below.

How to Remove Spider Sally virus

The Spider Sally 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 Spider Sally 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 Spider Sally in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Spider Sally startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Spider Sally 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 Spider Sally

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 Spider Sally, 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 Spider Sally 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 Spider Sally 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.