How To Remove www.helpme.net From Computer

Simple Steps To Delete www.helpme.net From PC

www.helpme.net is a nasty web domain crafted by a team of vicious Cyber actors for generating Online revenues from rookie users. It uses social engineering tactic to to earn profits such as pay-per-click, pay-per-redirect and so on. Once this potentially unwanted program successfully infiltrates your computer, first of all it makes unexpected changes to your default browser’s settings and assigns itself as the new home page, search engine and new tab addresses replacing the previous one. To prevent users from restoring the settings back to its normal form, it also installs multiple toolbars, extensions, plug-ins etc. on the browser.

www.helpme.net also injects tracking on the affected browser and keeps eyes on your Online actions all the time. It gathers important information regarding your interests and needs by the help of which, its authors generate and display eye-catching adverts. And therefore, you are bombarded with a number of annoying deals, discounts, offers, coupons, banners etc. that makes that turns your Online browsing into nightmare. These ads include paid links and upon being clicked, lead you to affiliated web pages where numerous products and services are promoted. This nasty hijacker makes commission for the creators according to the clicks it gets on its adverts and with each redirection. However, it is worth mentioning here that www.helpme.net might also reroute you to potentially dangerous web pages that are filled with malevolent contents and cause more hazards to your system.

Ways To Spread www.helpme.net:

www.helpme.net can be spread through several illusive tactics, but the most common one is software bundling method. It is attached with third-party programs as an additional tool and manages to get into the machine during the installation of main software. If generally occurs when user installs the software via Quick/Recommended which let’s the additional component enter the machine secretly without the knowledge of the user. And therefore, experts always recommend selecting Custom/Advanced configuration setting that gives you control over the incoming downloads. Here you can deselect the unwanted tools which look suspicious and pick only the main software.

Quick Glance

Name- www.helpme.net

Category- Browser Hijacker, PUP

Description- Aims to redirect users to affiliated websites and make Online profits for the developers.

Symptoms- Changes in default browser’s settings, appearance of ads and pop-ups, slowness of browser and so on.

Distribution- Malicious File Downloads, Freeware or shareware installers, P2P file sharing, and many more.

Removal- Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

Other Harmful Traits of www.helpme.net:

www.helpme.net displays fake security warnings, error messages, update notifications etc. and tries to scam you into installing bogus software. The biggest threat related with this hijacker is privacy issue. It can steal all your personal and confidential data such as user IDs, passwords, bank account and other financial details and then share them with hackers for evil purposes. Hackers can misuse your sensitive information for generating illicit revenues and cause you to suffer a big financial loss. It eats up enormous amount of memory resources and drags down the overall computer performance severely. Due to this, machine starts responding in a very slow manner and takes more than usual time to complete any task.

www.helpme.net messes with important system files which assure efficient computer functioning and prevents many installed apps as well as drivers from working normally. It assists remote criminals to get access to your device and execute evil acts for their delicate welfare. In order to get automatically activated with each Window reboot, it makes spiteful entries in boot section and alters its default settings. This hazardous threat can be also responsible for the infiltration of several other Online parasites such as Trojans, rootkits, worms, spyware etc. on your computer as well since it has ability to deactivate all the running security measures and open backdoors for them. And therefore, looking at all these threats, you must remove www.helpme.net from the PC 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 www.helpme.net:

Remove the related items of www.helpme.net 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 www.helpme.net 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 (www.helpme.net) 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 www.helpme.net 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 www.helpme.net 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 www.helpme.net 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 www.helpme.net 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 www.helpme.net (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.