Easy removal guide to Storm Alerts

Storm Alerts has disturbed the surfing experience recently. There are advertisement banners and pop-ups slipping on the screen. The annoying information links to the sponsored websites in order to produce pay-per-click revenue and disseminate the products and discount messages. In specifically, Storm Alerts mainly displays the latest weather condition. It sounds like a useful tool, but the program can invade actively and make pop-up jump whether you want or not.
Personally, I would like to introduce some knowledge about Storm Alerts and give you some instructions to remove it easily.

What is Storm Alerts?

The Storm Alerts adware is regarded as disfavored program. The purpose of Storm Alerts is direct to make profits, like web traffic, collects sales leads for other dubious sites.

In a professional area, Storm Alerts is not a virus, even not a serious malware because it does not make damage on the computer system. However, the key point is that the adware poses a potential threat on the machine which is vulnerably utilized by hackers. In other words, cybercriminals can inject virus into our local computer remotely through the ads delivered by Storm Alerts. So if Storm Alerts is not our inevitable-needed program, I suggest you to delete it.

How does Storm Alerts get access to your computer?

Storm Alerts is an ad-supported plug-in for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome and distributed bundled with free software in third-party platform. Storm Alerts usually slip into your computer when you install free software (video recording, download-managers or PDF creators) that is bundled with the adware’s installation program. It is noteworthy that there is no extra note prompt you install the adware. It suddenly appears when you open the browsers.

Conclusion of infected features and adware’s spread methods

• There is a new tab jumping out that displays the latest weather changes.

• Around the windows, there are other advertisements appearing.

• Storm Alerts is usually bundled with free software that you down load from the internet, especially the third-party platform.

• Storm Alerts plugs in some advertisements, tempting you to open it.

The method to remove Storm Alerts

Because of the characters of Storm Alerts, the removal steps can refer to that of similar adware. The following part introduces the common measures about deleting adware.

Method 1: delete manually

 

1.  Click on start, control panel, programs and features in sequence.

2. After the ‘Programs and Features’ or the ‘Uninstall a Program’ box jumps onto the screen, scan the installed program Storm Alerts and uninstall  it and other suspected programs.

Tips: You can click on ‘installed on’ column to sort your programs by the installation dates, so you will find unwanted malwares quickly and then uninstall them.

3. Later on, you can delete registry entries. The process is important because it can help you remove the adware completely.

Input ‘regedit’ in search box, and press Enter.

4. Next, click on Yes when you are prompted by UAC.

5. When Windows registry editor opens, search for the infected registry entries and delete them.

If you cannot find any suspected programs, you can adopt the next step mentioned below.

Method 2: using SpyHunter eliminate the adware automatically. 

1. The button below links the official website which help you down load. Click on it and install the SpyHunter if you need.

 

2. After you finish downloading, perform the file and click ‘Run’ icon.

3. Accept the license agreement and click on ‘Next’.

4. Next, the setup process will perform automatically for some minutes.

5. At last, you should start the antivirus and scan your computer.

6. When you are prompted that you have some threats like the list below, remove them.

 

Warm And Tips:

Following part I mention  is about the common locations of the registry entries and files of Storm Alerts (you can also see these locations as reference to find other adware's related files), which is useful to delete adware by users themselves.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing "NewTabPageShow" = "1"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

If you cannot resolve the problem yet, leave a message to me or download the SpyHunter, which can help you as soon as possible.