How to Get Rid of Sonic Train Completely

What Is Sonic Train?

Sonic Train is classified as adware that performs a number of dubious actions and affects the web browsers and changes the browser settings. This adware can deliver many ads on your browsers when getting installed on your computer. It will finish its installation without your notice together with the program or process that you have downloaded it from the unsafe sites.

Sonic Train is a browser add-on that can install in your browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. When staying on your computer, it will take control over your browsers by modifying the settings and keep showing a number of commercial ads almost on every page you visit. The adware is created with the purpose of spying on and analyzing computer users’ browsing activities so that to make money. If you see any service or product advertised by the adware, please do not click on them or use them.

How Does the Adware Enter Your PC?

Sonic Train is able to seize any opportunity to slip into your vulnerable computer and secretly perform lots of harmful activities. Any of those additional programs can bring about the annoying pop-up ads. You will also get infected by this adware when the time you install the wanted program, but the once thing you do not know is, the wanted program you are downloading has been infected by Sonic Train adware and you just choose to ignore the installation process. It should be known that free applications available on the Internet are not 100% clean, and most of them have adware bundled. Once it is installed to the computer, all the browsers can be infected including IE, FF, or Chrome which makes it hard to be removed.

How to Remove Sonic Train Totally?

To make sure your computer is clean we suggest you remove any maliciousprogram that has installed on your machine. Here is a manual removal guide on below which can help you get rid of such virus. Guides below will help you prevent from this threat and any other malicious programs.

Step 1: Remove unwanted add-ons added by Sonic Train.
Internet Explorer:
Start the IE browser.
Click on “Tools” and navigate to “Manage add-ons”.
On “Toolbars and Extensions”, find out and disable the questionable add-ons.
Mozilla Firefox:
Open the Firefox browser.
Click on “Tools” and select “Add-ons”.
On “Extensions” and “Plugins”, find out and remove/disable the suspicious add-ons.
Google Chrome:
Launch the Chrome browser.
Click on the Wrench icon, select “Tools” and go to “Extensions”.
On “Extensions”, find out and delete the unwanted extensions.
Step 2: Open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt+ Del. Search for the adware related processes and kill them by selecting “End Process”.
Step 3: Find and delete the adware related files from the following folders.
%UserProfile%\
%ProgramFiles%\
%AppData%Local%\
%Profile%\Local Settings\Temp\
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\
Step 4: Press Windows key + R key together. Type "regedit" into the box and press Enter. In the Register Editor, search for the adware related registry entries and delete them from your computer.

Sonic Train is a high-risk virus infection that can cause many problems on the infected computer. For this reason, you would better check if your computer has been infected by such virus and if so, carefully do as the removal guides to completely be away from it and adware like it. It is also important to keep a good habit of browsing the Internet to prevent such unwanted things.

Tips to Prevent Your PC from Being Infected

1. Have a quality anti-malware program to safeguard your computer. The first line of defense on your computer should be a professional and powerful anti-virus program that can offer a fully protection. Security tools can also detect the files you have downloaded. It does not only scan the whole system but also detects and deletes various kinds of threat from your computer without damage.

2. Keep updating all software installed. Software vendors releases updates for programs when they ferret out any software flaws. Updating the software timely can lower the risk of being attacking by the malware from the online world. If your software can be set to update automatically, you should go to the vendor’s website and obtain the newest version manually.

3. Strengthen your Internet browser security. Browsers have their own features and you can adjust the security settings that fit your browsing habit. It is highly recommended that you maximize the setup to tighten the security of your browser.

 4. Be careful when you are surfing online. The Internet contains both helpful information and various potential cyber threats. You should use extra caution with links in email messages, sharing files, and pop-up ads. Those unsafe links could lead to extremely dangerous situation on the infected computer. Be cautious when encountering unknown information.