TopBuyer is an unwanted adware program which is a great threat to your system and personal information. It disguises itself as a useful application that can provide you with multiple services and products to help you improve your computer and save much time. It can work on browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer as a browser extension. After completed its infiltration, it displays intrusive online advertisements: sponsored links, banner, interstitial, videos, coupons, images, in-text advertisements, in-search, pop-up, and pop-under. In addition, it may track your personal data such as the websites you visited, the search items you typed, your IP address and other sensitive information. This will put the infected computer into security and fraud danger. Furthermore, Clicking on these advertisements by mistakes will redirect you to unfamiliar web pages which contains adware or malware infections. Do not hesitate to remove TopBuyer from your computer.
How
Does the Adware Get Into Your Computer?
Installing free
applications: Such adware programs usually come bundled with other free
applications that shared on the web. You can be easily infected by adware and
browser hijacker if you trust all resources on the internet. Accessing malicious websites or the legitimate websites that have been compromised: Those unknown sites may be inserted malicious codes and utilized to infect those careless cyber users’ PCs. Especial some porn or prohibited websites which you shouldn’t visit.
Opening spam email attachments or clicking on links in the emails: Adware and PUP usually hides itself in the junk emails/attachments and instant messages to puzzle users. If you click on those links or open the email attachments, you will be attacked by adware or PUP.
Keeping outdated security software: Adware can easily enter your computer, if you haven’t updated your antivirus program for a long time. Other cyber threats can also invade your PC when security settings are poor.
How
to Kick TopBuyer out Your Computer?
It is obvious that TopBuyer
is able to mess up your computer with tons of annoying ads that can make annoy
you so much during your browsing. Moreover, it may gather your personal data by
tracking your browser cookies, so that it can deliver more customized ads to
you. Under circumstance, you are highly suggested to get rid of TopBuyer from
your computer as soon as possible. Please take the steps below to accomplish
the manual removal.
Step 1: Launch
Task Manager by pressing the keys CTRL + Shift + ESC at the same time. Click on
“Processes” tab and start looking for processes related to XXX. Select them one by one and clicking on the
“End Process” button to stop them from running.
Step 2: Find out
and remove the files related to the adware in the following folders.
%Temp%\
%AppData%\
%LocalAppData%\
%Program Files%\
%AllUsersProfile%\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application
Data\
Step 3: Press
Windows + R keys and type “regedit” into the Run box. Then hit OK to start
Registry Editor. Search for and delete all registry entries associated with the
adware.
Step 4: Remove
add-ons related to the virus from the infected web browsers.
Internet Explorer
Click on “Tools”
and then select “Manage add-ons”.
On Toolbars and
Extensions, remove the adware from your browser.
Mozilla Firefox
Click on “Tools”
and then select “Add-ons”.
On Extensions and
Plug-ins, remove the adware from your browser.
Google Chrome
Click on the
Wrench or 3-bar icon.
Click on “Tools”
and select “Extensions”.
On Extensions tab,
remove the adware from your browser.
Attention: TopBuyer is able to update itself and change its features, which make it not easy to delete its files completely in manual way. To thoroughly clear the adware, you can try a professional malware removal tool like Malwarebytes or SpyHunter to get rid of the pop-up ads completely.
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