Update Checker Adware Removal

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The Update Checker utility does not deliver what it promises. Security experts have categorized it as adware (ad-generating app). This parasite is extremely intrusive. It takes control of your favorite web browser and drowns you in a sea of advertisements. The adware injects various ads on every website you visit. Banners, hyperlinks, sliding panels, and in-text adverts cover previously ad-free web pages. There are so many adverts that your poor browser can barely display the websites correctly. It freezes and crashes often. The Update Checker adware interferes with every aspect of your daily web browsing. It is a constant pain in the neck that is hard to be tolerated. Every link you follow, every page you load, every video you watch, there are advertisements simply everywhere. You cannot get a simple task done without being interrupted. And when you think you’ve finally seen the worst, the adware surprises you with something new. This utility generates revenue for every advertisement you click on to. It gets even more money for every sponsored web page you get redirected to. So, it redirects your web traffic to sponsored websites. It opens pop-unders when you least expect them. These adverts open under your active window. Sometimes don’t notice them and they remain active for long periods of time. The problem is that the open pop-unders use your RAM and thus, slow down your computer. The Update Checker adware should not be tolerated. Do not let this intruder ruin your browsing experience. Remove it as soon as possible!

How did I get infected with?

The Update Checker adware lured you into installing it. That is right. You did it. You allowed this parasite on board. Not intentionally, of course. You were cleverly deceived. The parasite stole your approval and got installed on your device without you noticing it. The adware hides in software bundles, torrents, spam messages, and fake updated. One second of carelessness is all it needs to get on board. Do not be negligent! Don’t make its job easier. Always make sure you know what you are giving your permission to. Download your software from reputable sources only. Avoid using torrents. When you are about to install a program, pay close attention to the fine print. If you are offered an Advanced/Custom installation option, by all means, select it. Under it, you will be able to see whether additional apps are about to be installed. If there are such apps, deselect them. These third-party programs, more often than not are malicious. Besides, if you truly needed such software, you would have downloaded it by yourself. This is your computer. Don’t let others decide how you should use it. Install only the apps you want. Don’t let parasites like the Update Checker adware on board ever again!

Why is this dangerous?

The Update Checker adware is extremely intrusive. It interferes with every aspect of your daily web browsing. Yet, it is more than an insignificant annoyance. This app is quite dangerous. The parasite is in no way safe. Quite the contrary. It exposes both your privacy and security to risk. You must have noticed that the ads displayed by the adware are somehow related to your hobbies, interests or needs. This is not a strange coincidence. The adware knows what sort of ads will appeal to you. This parasite knows you better than you can imagine. From the moment it has entered your OS, the Update Checker adware continuously spies on you. The parasite knows your every online step. Which websites you visit, what search inquiries you make, what videos you watch. Even the Incognito mode of your browser cannot hide you from the pest. Everything you do online is recorded and cataloged. The adware uses this information for better ad-targeting. A capable advertiser can use this information to target you with relevant advertisements. What if this capable advertiser has bad intentions? All sorts of crooks use the adware and its resources. They lure victims into online scams. The crooks show you what you want to see, but when you click on their adverts, you end up on questionable-looking pages. Be very careful online. With the adware on board, you are far more likely to be redirected to bogus websites than to legitimate ones. Do not reveal personal or financial information.

How to Remove Update Checker virus

The Update Checker 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 Update Checker 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 Update Checker in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Update Checker startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

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

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Update Checker 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 Update Checker

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 Update Checker, 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 Update Checker 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 Update Checker 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.