Can’t Remove Friends Checker Popup? How to Delete Friends Checker Completely

Friends Checker is an Adware program which is annoyed by users for the tons of advertisements it brings. And because of the endless advertisements, the loading of websites will be obviously degraded down. As Friends Checker is found to append on social network constantly, it’s very easy for users to download the abomination accidentally. Once installed, it is able to compatible with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to mess up browser settings and pop up various advertisements. To click the popup, it will further lead to other problems such as fake antivirus program, browser hijacker and other toolbars. To make matters worse, Friends Checker is able to track the websites users have visited and try to steal personal information for making illegal profit. Thus, once Friends Checker has been found, don’t be hesitated to get rid of it thoroughly.

How will Friends Checker be removed?

Users who get entangled with Friends Checker must be very upsetting due to the frustration of virus removal. The failure of Friends Checker’s thorough removal can not be attributed to antivirus software but to the virus itself. It is very strong a virus skills in concealing deeply among system files and registry entries that most of the security applications can simply quarantine its infected files but never be able to exterminate this threat once for all. Fortunately, manual removal method is a way that mainly used to pick up the infected files and get them removed permanently. Now, it’s your time to follow the instructions below.

Guides to delete infected files of Friends Checker efficiently

1. Find and clean up toolbars and plug-ins from browsers:

Mozilla Firefox:

Click the small search magnify glass near the search box (not url/search field), select “Manage Search Engines…”. Click and remove Friends Checker from the list.

2. Open the Windows Task Manager(CTRL+ALT+DELETE) to stop all Friends Checker processes.

[random name].exe

3. Click "Start" menu and click "Run", enter "regedit" into the box and press the Enter key.

4. Search the keys from the pop up window and delete all of them:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ Friends Checker
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName = C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\safemode\command "(Default)" = ""%LocalAppData%\<random 3 chars>.exe" -a "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode"

5. Locate to the system files and get them removed manually:

%AppData%\\.exe
%AppData%\p1.exe
%CommonAppData%\.
%System%\[random].exe


Notice: That handling .dll files and registry entries need to be highly cautious as any mistake would lead to system crash. Thus, if you have no sufficient experience on computer, please feel free to start a live chat and get help from computer expert here.