2015/11/03

How to Remove Eridanus Adware from Computer?

Eridanus is a relatively new adware infection, which can also be known as a potentially unwanted program. Technically, Eridanus itself is not malicious to computer. What is malicious is that Eridanus usually comes into users computer via free downloads and it do causes many security issues on users computer.

Eridanus sneaks into the PC completely behind your back, messes with your browser settings and effectively disrupts your entire Internet experience.
It is added to Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox as add-ons and extensions. So when searching things on your browser, your browsing screen will be flooded with all kinds of pop-ups, banners, in-text links and boxes, etc. Apart from that, it starts sending unwanted bogus deals, price comparisons, coupons and social engineering scams such as Flash Player, Browser or Media Player updates while surfing the commercial or the non-conmercial sites. What’s more, your computer system occupation will go through the roof and slow down your PC performance at a long run, so that it create a chance to misguide innocent users by redirecting to unknown and malicious websites. What’s worse, it is capable of monitoring users browsing activities and gathering browsing history of the visited pages, searches and websites.

Usually, applications like Eridanus is bundled with other free software downloaded from the website. During the process of installation, some careless users don’t pay much attention to the Advanced or Custom button. Another situation is that, applications like Eridanus in installed onto your computer without your notification and authorization. Such applications are easily installed onto computers. So when install software, you always opt for the Advanced or Custom button.

Based on the above facts, you should notice that the more time this adware spends on your computer, the more problems it will cause you. Thus, you are highly recommended to remove Eridanus immediately. You can follow the removal guide offered in the post to remove it. But if you don’t know much about computer system, you can remove it with the help of a professional removal tool.>>>Click here to get removal tool.

How to remove Eridanus from computer?

Instruction 1: Remove Eridanus manually
Instruction 2: Remove Eridanus automatically

Instruction 1: Remove Eridanus manually

Step 1: Stop background processes related to Eridanus from Task Manager.

1) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del/Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys at the same time to quickly open Task Manager.



2) In the pop-up System Task Manager, click on Processes tab then select the unwanted processes running in the background, click on End Process button to disable them instantly.



Step 2: Uninstall Eridanus from Control Panel

1) Windows 7 users
Click Start menu at the bottom left corner of your desktop > select Control Panel > click Uninstall a Program > locate carefully the program in the displayed programs list and uninstall it.

 

2) Window XP Users
Click Start on the bottom left corner your desktop > select Settings > click Add or Remove Programs > locate carefully the program in the displayed programs list and uninstall it.

3) Windows 10 and Windows 8 Users
Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen > select Control Panel in the Quick Access Menu > choose Programs and Features in the displayed window > locate carefully the program in the displayed programs list and uninstall it.


Step 3: Remove Eridanus from Chrome, Firefox and IE

For Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Click on the Google Chrome wrench icon on the top right corner
3. Select Tools then Extensions in the main menu
4. Click on the little recycle bin to remove the Eridanus  extension
5. Reset Google Chrome by deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind


For Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
3. Disable the unwanted Extension
4. Head to Help
5. Then Troubleshoot information
6. Click on Reset Firefox


For Internet Eplorere

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click on the Gear Icon on the upper right corner
3. Click on Internet options
4. Head to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
5. Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset
6. Restart Internet Explorer


Step 4. Delete Eridanus remaining registry entries

1) Open Registry Editor. Press Windows+R keys at the same time-> type “regedit” command in the displayed Run search bar-> press Enter key to continue.



2) Back up the Registry file.
Click on File-> select Export-> type a new name for the backup-> click on Save button.



3) Remove Adware remaining registry files.
Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branches in the Registry Editor, unfold them to find out all the related Adware registry entries then delete them.



4) Remove Eridanus leftovers completely.
Open Control Panel-> click on Appearance and Personalizations-> select Folder Options-> click on View tab-> Select “Show hidden files and folders”-> remove the check from “Hide protected operating system files(recommended)”-> click on OK button -> go to find out all the files of  Eridanus  in the computer system and remove them without hesitation.



5) Restart the computer once finished the steps above.

Instruction 2: Remove Eridanus automatically

Step 1: Download SpyHunter to remove Eridanus 

SpyHunter is a powerful automatic removal tool which can help users to clean up the infections like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. besides, it is also capable to optimize your computer.

a) Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool



b) Follow the instrutions to install SpyHunter removal tool







c) After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.



d) Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.




Step 2: Download and install RegCure Pro to optimize the infected computer

RegCure pro is the powerful application which contains the dll error fix, malware fix, registry fix functions and can help improve your computer running speed to make your computer run faster and protect your computer from malware.

a) Click the below button to download RegCure Pro



b) Follow the instructions to install RegCure Pro



b) After the installation, run RegCure Pro to optimize the whole operating system.





If you manually remove Eridanus, you may need to carefully follow the steps offered above. It requires skillful computer skills, if you think the steps are hard to follow, you can choose to remove Eridanus with SpyHunter automatically and efficiently.




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