What is Celebrity Alert pop-up ads?

What is Celebrity Alert pop-up ads?

Celebrity Alert pop-up is classified as an adware which can get itself attached to almost all the popular web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. as we all know, Celebrity Alert is designed by cyber hackers to increase web traffic and generate profit from it. To achieve its purpose, it can track and store your online traces like collecting search keywords, favorites, bookmarks, browser history, which will violate your privacy and may steal your personal information. Besides, it will try to redirect you to phishing sites, if you don’t pay more attention to the sites, you may get your confidential information like online banking information exposed. Or it will try to redirect you to other harmful sites which may contain the computer threats like Trojan, worms, adware, hijacker, etc. therefore, we should not download this Celebrity Alert.

How Celebrity Alert ads invade into your computer?

Usually, there are various ways can get infected by Celebrity Alert ads. I will list the common ways below:
1.Open spam email attachments unexpectedly.
2.Download free software from unsafe websites and without paying attention to the default installation.
3.Visiting questionable websites like porn, gambling, etc.
4.Sharing malicious files with other user online.

Great pain with Celebrity Alert adware

1.More useless toolbars or browser extensions will be invited to come to compromise your computer.
2.It can modify your default browser settings without your consent and affect your web browsers one by one.( Trojan also can trigger this adware problem)
3.It can take up your great part of system resource and then degrade your overall computer performance.
4.It can display you unstoppable pop up ads or even redirect you to unknown websites which will bombard with more annoying pop-up ads

Solution one: How do I manually remove Celebrity Alert ads

1. Disable any suspicious startup items.

For Windows XP:
Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items including those of Celebrity Alert.

2. Show hidden files

a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;
b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;
c) click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by Celebrity Alert:

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
3- Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer
1) Go to ‘Tools’ → ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ → choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ → ‘Internet Options’, select ‘General tab’ and click ‘Use default’ button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’.
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage search engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Results’ from the list remove it by clicking the “X” mark.

Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engines….’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ → ‘Options’. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the ‘General tab’;

4-Restart your computer normally to check the effectiveness.

Solution two: Get rid of Celebrity Alert pop-up ads by automatic scan of SpyHunter removal tool

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application certified by West Coast Labs’ Checkmark Certification System and designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats. SpyHunter is automatically configured to give you optimal protection with limited interaction, so all you need to do is install it for immediate and ongoing protection.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Follow the instrutions to install SpyHunter removal tool
Step two: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step three: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.