How To Remove Garbage Cleaner PUP

Tips To Delete Garbage Cleaner

Garbage Cleaner is presented as a useful application that cleans operating systems by removing junk files and other useless content. However, due to the deceptive tactics used to spread this application, it has been categorized as a potentially unwanted program. This notorious PUP can’t clean the device or enhance its performance in any way. It displays false scan results and listing issues with the machine that don’t even exist in your system. It’s an operational program and hence, it can’t even perform the system check and those scan results are forged to get users’ notice and interaction with the specific app.

More About Garbage Cleaner:

Garbage Cleaner shows non-existing issues and convinces users to pay for or install another application or the registered version of this dubious file cleaner. This PUP can be detected by multiple security suites as malicious since it has a good AV tool detection rate. Security experts state that you should only rely on anti-malware and security apps to remove junk files from the device appropriately. This notorious system tool doesn’t provide any value itself.

Even though people don’t install Garbage Cleaner intentionally, it can run in the background, modify several functions, and claim to scan the device and inform you about the disk space, cleaning issues, junk files and so on. This message is often displayed by promotional advertisements. These false claims might urge people to purchase the licensed version of the application. You are strongly advised to ignore these fake messages and avoid paying for useless service as it will do nothing in your favor. Instead, it might cause other PUPs like adware or browser hijacker installations in your work-station.

Garbage Cleaner adware floods your system screen with endless intrusive ads and pop-ups throughout the day which disrupts your web sessions badly. These ads often contain spiteful links and redirect users to potentially infectious sites that are filled with malevolent contents. This nasty PUP eats up enormous amount of memory resources and slows down the overall computer performance drastically. Due to this, device begins responding in a very slow manner and takes more than usual time to complete any task. This pernicious threat can be a big hazard for your privacy too as it can track your online actions, steal your personal data and expose them to cyber criminals for evil motives. And hence, an instant Garbage Cleaner removal is strongly recommended.

Quick Glance

Name: Garbage Cleaner

Type: Adware, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Redirects users to affiliated sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online revenues for the creators, Also steals users’ personal and confidential information and share them with hackers for evil purposes.

Symptoms: Tons of intrusive adverts, Fake pop-up messages, An app that you do not recall installing suddenly appeared on your device. A new program is performing device scans and shows warning messages about ‘found issues’. Asks for payment to remove the supposedly found errors, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), Deceptive emails, malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

Penetration of Garbage Cleaner:

Potentially unwanted applications are mostly spread through “bundling” technique. In this method, they are included to a software package as additional offers along with regular apps. When users download a freeware from untrustworthy channels and then perform rushed installation process (ignoring terms, using “Easy/Express” settings, etc.), then often end up with getting infected with these PUPs.

How To Avoid PUP Intrusion?

And therefore, it is necessary to choose only reliable sources, official sites and direct links to download software and avoid using unofficial channels, Peer-to-Peer sharing networks, third-party downloaders etc. Moreover, you should always select the Custom or Advanced installation options where you can de-select the components that you don’t want to be installed. But at the moment, you must remove Garbage Cleaner from the computer as soon as possible.

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 Garbage Cleaner:

Remove the related items of Garbage Cleaner 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 Garbage Cleaner 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 (Garbage Cleaner) 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 Garbage Cleaner 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 Garbage Cleaner 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 Garbage Cleaner 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 Garbage Cleaner 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 Garbage Cleaner (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.