How To Remove OpenBook Adware From PC

OpenBook: Complete Uninstall Steps

OpenBook is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) categorized as adware. As soon as this notorious threat successfully infiltrates the Windows computers, it starts running intrusive advertisement campaigns. It floods your computer screen with tons of annoying ads and interrupts your web sessions badly. The real objective of the creators of this PUP is to promote their partners’ products, services and websites and make quick online revenues from rookie users. This nasty adware also changes the appearance of browser and sets its own nasty URL as the new search engine, homepage and new tab addresses without even asking for any approval.

OpenBook Ads Come In Several Formats:

Ads displayed by OpenBook are in multiple formats such as coupons, banners, pop-ups, deals, offers, discounts, surveys etc. They are based on pay-per-click mechanism and earn revenues for the developers when clicked. The more users tap on these adverts, the more money falls straight into developers’ pocket. Clicking on these adverts though is not recommended as they might redirect you to hazardous websites and pose severe threats to your work-station. You might be taken to various scam/phishing, fake tech support, malware-laden, gambling, gaming and other insecure domains.

Some OpenBook ads can trigger direct download/installation of potentially unwanted programs by running certain scripts. This nasty PUP promoted a fake search engine that is not even capable of providing results by itself, so it reroutes to Yahoo, Bing or other genuine one. However, the search results delivered by it are still not organic as they are usually contain ads and sponsored links that are placed right at the top. Ads shown by this adware are very eye-catching since they are based on victims’ online activities.

OpenBook inserts various spying cookies on the affected browser and constantly monitor users’ activities whatever they do online. It gathers various browser-related and even private data e.g., sites visited, pages viewed, links clicked, search queries typed, IP addresses, geolocations, credit card and banking details. Afterwards, the collected information is shared with or sold to third-parties and can be utilized for customizing ads, making fraudulent transactions, online purchases and so on. Hence, presence of this nasty adware in your computer may lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft and huge financial losses. So, a quick OpenBook removal is strongly required.

Penetration Of OpenBook:

Software bundling is the method that is generally utilized by PUP creators to spread their malicious additions. In this technique, these potentially unwanted programs are included to a single installer together with regular software as optional download tools. As soon as the Quick or Recommended installation setting is selected after downloading the freeware from popular site like soft32.com, download.com, cnet.com, softonic.com, these unwanted threats manage to get installed along with the carrier application without users’ notice.

To prevent this, choosing Custom or Advanced configuration settings is highly recommended. These options allow you to de-select the components from the download list that rise suspicion and pick only the one you wanted at the first. Moreover, avoid using unreliable sources, peer-to-peer networks and other third-party downloaders and choose only official sites, trustworthy channels for your software and products. If your computer is already infected with this adware, you must remove OpenBook from the machine without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove OpenBook:

Remove the related items of OpenBook using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing OpenBook issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (OpenBook) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to OpenBook removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to OpenBook still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove OpenBook plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in OpenBook removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete OpenBook (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.