How To Remove Reputation Lookup Adware

Reputation Lookup: Simple Delete Process

Reputation Lookup is a browser extension promoted as a tool that quickly checks the reputation of online content. However, this is merely another commonly used marketing tactic, which supposedly raises the distribution rate of this potentially unwanted program (PUP). If you have already downloaded this application to your device, you may have already noticed that each of your web browsers was affected in a negative way. Besides, you may have also perceived intrusive pop-up ads each time when you start online surfing. If you want to avoid unknown and questionable websites, you should be very careful with these adverts.

Reputation Lookup Ads Redirect To Suspicious Pages:

Reputation Lookup delivers numerous pop-ups, coupons, banners, deals, offers, discounts, surveys, full-page, and other annoying commercial content. They severely diminish the browsing experience and pose high risk to system as well as users’ safety. Furthermore, once clicked on, they may redirect you to potentially insecure domains filled with spiteful material. You may land on portals which contain porn, gambling, tech support scams, malware, and other vicious content. Also, some of these ads can stealthily download and install malicious software by running certain scripts.

Moreover, keep in mind that PUPs like Reputation Lookup may track your online activities, including your mostly visited websites, data entered on these sites, search terms, IP addresses, geolocations, etc. In general, such information is utilized by third-parties for generating interesting pop-up ads to get as many clicks on them as possible and earn maximum revenues via pay-per-click method. Be very careful with these advertisements as you never know what pages they might take you to. Apart from your browsing data, it can also gather your personal details like saved passwords, credit card number, etc.

Your sensitive data stolen by Reputation Lookup could be misused by the threat actors to make fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases, and so forth. Hence, it may lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft, and significant financial losses. To create persistence and get automatically activated with each PC reboot, it alters registry settings. This act may cause boot errors, application malfunctioning, hard drive crash, software failure, and so forth. Additionally, continuous evil deeds performed by this adware consume too much amount of system resources and drag down the overall computer performance severely. Therefore, an instant Reputation Lookup removal is strongly required.

Distribution Of Reputation Lookup:

These adware infections usually sneak into your PC device along with various freewares and sharewares. Potentially unwanted programs are often added alongside the main installers of various PDF creators, download managers, media players and so on. When a freeware is downloaded from third-party site and then installed using the Quick or Default configuration mode, all the PUPs manage to get installed on the machine together with the main software.

Thus, if you want to keep your computer away from such unwanted apps, make sure that in order to install any freeware, you select Advanced or Custom installation method. This way you will be allowed to see all available check boxes and opt-out the ones that are out of contexts. To be more precise, you may notice check box that promotes this extension and states that you accept to install it. If you do not want to experience all aforesaid dilemmas that it may cause, don’t forget to unmark such and similar check boxes. But at the moment, you must remove Reputation Lookup from the PC 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 Reputation Lookup:

Remove the related items of Reputation Lookup 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 Reputation Lookup 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 (Reputation Lookup) 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 Reputation Lookup 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 Reputation Lookup 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 Reputation Lookup 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 Reputation Lookup 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 Reputation Lookup (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.