How To Remove UPS Rewards Scam PUP

UPS Rewards Scam Virus: Easy Uninstall Guide

UPS Rewards Scam is triggered by vicious cyber criminals to promote several unreliable and dangerous sites. The scheme itself is promoted on multiple illusive web pages and is disguised as a prize giveaway from UPS (United Parcel Service). This scam has been found to be spread via deceptive emails. Cyber crooks send thousands of phishing emails in a large scale operation. Users can enter into this by completing a short survey. UPS is the American multinational package delivery and supply chain management company and it has nothing to do with this scam. Typically, users visit sites which advertise this scam by potentially unwanted program, already installed on their computers.

Know More About UPS Rewards Scam:

When people access a site that promotes UPS Rewards Scam, they are claimed that they can win a high-class reward if they complete a thirty-second survey. The total number of already claimed prizes is supposed to be four million US dollars. Ninety USD is the smartest prize that users can claim. As soon as they click the “Take Survey Now” button, they are presented with a short-term multi-choice questionnaire. Once users complete the survey, they are redirected to a site where, they can select the fake gift. By clicking the “CLAIM REWARD” button, they are taken to multiple unreliable websites.

The “UPS Rewards Scam” has been found promoting phishing sites. These portals are employed to record the data entered into them. The information is then utilized for malicious purposes, e.g., used to enable personalized scams, sold to third-parties or cyber criminals etc. Details targeted by these phishing pages are: names, surnames, telephone numbers, addresses, and emails. Research says that the scheme also promotes sites that advertise and sell shady and deceptive products. Quite often, these sites don’t have such content and hence, even after purchasing, users don’t receive anything. Even if the purchased items reach, they might not be as worthy as paid for or be completely malicious.

UPS Rewards Scam PUP can cause several notorious issues onto the compromised systems if stay inside for a longer duration. This notorious threat serves intrusive advertising campaign and redirects users to various scam, phishing and malware-laden sites. It can even track victims’ web activities and collect browsing-related as well as personal information which can be utilized for several malevolent purposes like generating customized advertisements, making fraudulent transactions and so on. And hence, an instant UPS Rewards Scam virus removal is strongly recommended.

How Does This Threat Intrude Your Computer?

More frequently, these potentially unwanted programs are installed unknowingly by rushing through new software installations. There’s a method called software bundling and PUP developers broadly employ it. Software bundles contain installers for two and more apps, and the trick is that all of them are preselected for installation. Thus if you choose the Standard, Recommended, or Quick mode, all of them are installed.

These bundles are typically downloaded from third-party software vendors, but genuine app creators started to use this technique also. So the only way to protect your computer from a PUP infection is to select the Advanced or Custom mode and deselect all additional, unwanted components from installation. But at the moment, you must remove UPS Rewards Scam virus from the device as soon as possible.

Text Presented In The Scam:

Over $4,000,000 in Offers given out so far!

April 15, 2021

Congratulations!

Complete this short 30-second survey about your shipping experience to select one of our exclusive reward offers (minimum value $90).

This offer is available for today only: April 15, 2021.

Take Survey Now

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 UPS Rewards Scam:

Remove the related items of UPS Rewards Scam 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 UPS Rewards Scam 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 (UPS Rewards Scam) 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 UPS Rewards Scam 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 UPS Rewards Scam 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 UPS Rewards Scam 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 UPS Rewards Scam 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 UPS Rewards Scam (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.