Health Alert is an ads-supported programs which is created as an adware to generate advertisements on your browser such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Health Alert pop up the message saying that : “Your Health May be at Risk! Get Health Alert — Stay Informed and Healthy!”. It state to offer you the latest health tips, the latest news on nutrition, health risks and other necessary information. It seems to be a useful application, however, it contains other malicious traits.
If you install the Health Alert, during installation of this application, you may receive additional offers such as a search toolbar. These offers are optional and you will be given the choice to ‘Accept’ or ‘Skip’ the offers. If you don’t pay attention to the installation process and just click the “Skip” button to continue, you will install its Search toolbar. This toolbar will change your default search, your home page and your new tab page. When you open the browser, your default homepage will be redirected to its Search toolbar.
When you surf the Internet, it will pop up some advertisement on your browser no mater you want them or not. It will keep track of your online activities and collect your personal information such as search queries, browsing history, enter information like email address, user account and password of social websites. And then send to the third party to display a lot of ads.
Ads by Health Alert also may introduce web browser toolbars, browser hijacker, fake Java update, optimization utilities and other unwanted products to your computer. To protect your system from attacking by various trouble, you should remove Health Alert immediately. The below removal guide is for your reference. And it is highly recommended to keep a powerful anti-virus like Spyhunter on the computer to remove and block viruses.
Two effective methods to remove Health Alert permanently from your computer system
1. Remove Health Alert manually.
2. Remove Health Alert by using SpyHunter anti-malware.
Detail instruction:
Method one: Manually remove Health Alert
Step 1.Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Health Alert
Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.
Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.
(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.
%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 3. Delete related malicious registry entries.
Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )
Delete all the vicious registries as below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 4- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.
Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”
Method two: Automatically get rid of Health Alert with Spyhunter
SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.
Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step two: Install Spyhunter.
Open spyh File sph-setup-win7 spyhunter installed
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.
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