Recently, I have installed some free programs which downloaded from the Internet. And I found I was redirected to some websites that I have never heard about; also, when I was watching video online or playing games, I got many pop-ups. I realized there is a program named Tanzuki Ads in my computer, and I thought that stuff is the problem about all these things, so I tried to remove it, but unluckily, I failed. I still can find it in my computer even I have removed it from the control panel. How can I completely get rid of it?

Introduction About Tanzuki Ads

Tanzuki Ads, just like we can see on its name, it is a kind of program which can provide advertisements to computer users who have installed this program into their own computers. But actually, this program belongs to potentially unwanted malware, to make it simple, it is an adware infection and some versions of it can contain a Trojan. This adware always bundles itself with other free programs, so when people get these program into their computers and install them to use for some purposes, this infection can infiltrate into the innocent computer in a secret way during the installation.

Once this infection comes into computer, your browser, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, all of them are its targets. Many crucial settings of your browsers can be changed automatically without your permission. When you want to use your browser to search something, you can get many redirects instead of showing the thing you want to find, and after you close all those pop-ups, you can get what you want. With a slow speed of Internet, your online experience is not pleasant. Not only popping up in browsers, those unwanted ads can appear on your eyesight in a regular interval, and disturbs you from your focus. Except this unhappy experience, the computer hard drive can be flooded with tons of junk files, which can slow down the performance of the computer. To make the situation worse, Tanzuki Ads can let many other malicious viruses invade into the computer easily. When your computer is totally messed up by those terrible threats, your sensitive personal information cannot be safe too. Usually, Trojan contains keylogger which can record all your information you have inputted by the keyboard, and can create a file of the information in your hard drive reconditely. Cyber criminals can access to your computer and find this file, after that, your bank account, credit card or some more private things can be used for illegal activity by them. Except by stealing your money by this method, Tanzuki Ads may help to install a fake protection tool into your computer, and this fake may automatically run after the computer boots up, after a 2-3 minutes’ scan, you are warned that your computer is in great risk, and if you need to remove them with its help, you need to purchase the program into full version. That’s also a way to cheat your money. Don’t be fooled by it. All you need to do with this Tanzuki Ads is to remove it as quickly as possible.

Some Traits about This Trojan

-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can create many junk files which occupy a lot of space in hard drive
-Can download other malicious programs into computer, which make further damage.
-Your sensitive information can be stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of this adware.
-May give you many redirects all the time no matter what you are doing.
-May pretend as an anti-virus program and cheat you that computer is in dangerous, and ask you to pay to remove the threats.

NOTE: If you find any of these symptoms on your computer, that proves your PC is under attack and seriously infected. If you are not a computer savvy,Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts to remove this Tanzuki Ads for you.

Manual Removal Guide of Trojan (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Trojan provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to Tanzuki Ads, the name of the process of it is random.

XP task manager

Step 2: Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

FolderOptions

Step 3: Try to find the files which relate to Tanzuki Ads, and delete them all.

Step 4: Click on Start button or press Win+R, then type regedit in the box to open Registry Editor, after that, try to find
C:\Users\profile name here\AppData\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Similar video guide to modify Windows registry:

Conclusion

Tanzuki Ads is kind of adware, but essentially it belongs to Trojan. This infection can invade computer secretly. Once it comes to the computer, the browsers’ setting can be modified by it. Many advertisements can be popped up while you are doing your work or surfing online, that’s really annoying. Except this unpleasant experience, this adware can make many other vicious threats to come more easily. In the meantime, your sensitive information can be embezzled by hackers. To prevent more damage and lost, what you need to do about this adware is to remove it quickly as you detect it in your computer.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of this Tanzuki Ads? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on December 27, 2013 2:15 pm

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