How to Remove Tamper Monkey Adware

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Tamper Monkey is a typical adware infection. This parasite sneaks into your computer uninvited and exploits your hospitality. The Tamper Monkey adware has only one true goal. To generate revenue. It uses the so-called pay-per-click marketing system. For every ad you click on, the owners of this utility will get paid. Don’t become their sponsor. They don’t care about you or your privacy. Tamper Monkey is not displaying some random ads. It selects them for you. Yes, that is right. This program knows what you need and displays targeted advertisements. To select the best ads, the malicious utility will spy on you. It will monitor all your online activities. Thus, for example, if you enter “sneakers” into some search engine, the adware will start displaying ads for similar shoes. This may sound useful, but it is not. On the contrary, the displayed ads are misleading and deceptive. Tamper Monkey creates an ad-layer which forces ads on all opened websites and, at the same time, blocks advertisements from its competitors. You will see only what the adware allows you to see. Eventually, you will lose track of the current prices. Don’t become an easy target. Remove this parasite immediately.

How did I get infected with?

The Tamper Monkey utility may have arrived as an extra program to some freeware or shareware you downloaded off the Internet. Developers tend to add extra software to the installation files of many free programs. They would also try to lure the user into using the standard installation wizard. This method is completely automatic. Once you execute it, all extra programs will be installed without further ado. To prevent this from happening, opt for a custom tab or button. The advanced method may be presented as a suitable choice for IT gurus only. Don’t fall for this trick. This is a low-class deception. There is nothing complicated in the custom option. It is a simple step-by-step installation wizard. Yes, it is a bit more time-consuming. But, think of it as an investment. You invest your time to spare yourself many future troubles.

Why is this dangerous?

The Tamper Monkey adware is spying on you. Constantly! Your favorite websites, the pages you view and even your search inquiries are no mystery to this malicious tool. If you don’t find this fact bothering, you must know that the adware won’t keep this information for itself. Every bit of data will be sent to the owners of this furtive application. And they can do whatever they want with it. They can target you with even more ads, or they can sell the data for bigger profit. Did you know that the Tamper Monkey utility can steal your usernames and passwords? Imagine what may happen if a hacker buys this information. You can lose money or become a victim of identity theft. Don’t waste time! Remove this parasite immediately. The longer this pest remains on your machine, the more dangerous it becomes. Tamper Monkey acts as an open door for many online threats. The adware has no filtering mechanisms. Anyone willing to spend some money can use its services to promote anything, including unlicensed or illegal products and services. Be extremely careful if you have kids. This tool has no parenting control. Hackers often use such programs to spread malicious ads. If you click on a corrupted advertisement, you will be redirected to an infected website. One click is all it takes for a dangerous virus to be downloaded. Don’t risk your security. Track this adware down and remove it on the spot!

How to Remove Tamper Monkey virus

The Tamper Monkey 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 Tamper Monkey 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 Tamper Monkey in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Tamper Monkey startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Tamper Monkey 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 Tamper Monkey

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 Tamper Monkey, 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 Tamper Monkey 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 Tamper Monkey 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.