I keep getting pop-ups from a program called Sponsor Ads on my computer. Don’t know if it is a program or not as I’m not good at computer. I can feel my computer runs slower than before and I don’t know it is caused by this stuff. Anyway, I don’t want those advertisements any longer. But I have no way to stop them. Can someone help me out of it? Thanks in advance.

Brief Introduction to This Program

Sponsor Ads is newly released computer threat designed by cyber hackers who want to use it to achieve evil purposes like increasing the rankings for some specific web pages, luring people to pay for useless stuff and implanting other kinds of computer viruses to the target computers. It is categorized to be a browser hijacker or we can call it potentially unwanted program. It can be easily spread to innocent computers as it cannot be detected by security programs. From technically aspect, this adware doesn’t belong to computer virus, so no wonder why people can’t realize that it can bring a lot of troubles to their machines as they can’t get any warning messages about it from their anti-virus programs.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

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Being a computer infection that can escape from detection of anti-virus software, this Sponsor Ads adware can have more chances to attack innocent computers on the Internet. Generally, cyber hackers can bundle this infection with other programs that are usually needed for computer users. So as soon as people download the corrupted programs and install them onto their machines, this adware can be installed in the mean time without being known by computer users. Once it is installed, it can add its data into the system registry silently which can make it start to damage the infected computers from the startup.

When this Sponsor Ads runs on the target computers, it can make chaos to the entire system from many aspects. Browsers installed on the systems can be messed up with strange pages. When people go online, they can be received tons of irrelevant pop-ups which could contain more computer viruses. Under this case, the target computers can encounter more problems if people don’t remove this adware soon. Also, this adware can slow down the speed of the infected computers. It can consume a lot for CPU resource on the background with its countless pop-ups, which can make users to wait a long time to load other programs. The infected computers can get many errors like black screen and blue screen of death during the use.

The properties of Browser Hijacker

-Can not be detected by your anti-virus software, which makes it hard to uninstall from the computer.
-Once you open your browser, you will be redirected to some unknown websites.
-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can pop up many unwanted advertisements when you are doing something else.
-Can change your settings in your browser and it is not easy to change it back.

If you find any symptoms listed above showing on your computer, then your computer must be suffered with a browser hijacker that causes you keep being redirecting to this Sponsor Ads. Welcome to contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts for manual removal guide. Also, we will provide a short removal guide below for computer literate.

NOTE: Being afraid to do any wrong operation during the process of removing this browser hijacker? Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts, we are here to help you:

Manual Removal Guide of Browser Hijacker (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Browser Hijacker 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 this hijacker, the name of the process of it is random.

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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.

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Step 3: Click on Start button at the right lower corner, then click on Control Panel

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Then you will come to the Control Panel windows, click on Add and Remove Programs

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Then try to find the program which relates to this browser hijacker, highlight it and choose Remove, the program’s name is random.

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Step4: Change your homepage in your browser (Take Internet Explorer as an Example)

From the Navigation toolbar in Internet Explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options.

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Then type the URL you want into the Home page box and then click OK

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Conclusion:

Sponsor Ads is unwanted adware that users need to get rid of it in time if they see it on their computers. Do not think it is only a program that provides ads, it can be malicious as what virus can do to your computer if you keep it on your machine. With this adware saved on your machine, your system can be suffered from problems and troubles all the time. It can make the performance of your computer be slower and slower and download many other viruses to the system which can make the situation worse.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on August 17, 2015 5:29 am

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