Description of Offer Boulevard
Offer Boulevard can be classified as an PUP(potentially unwanted program) or add on which acts as an adware program. This adware program can affect almost all the web browser including Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. It promises to save you time and money when you shopping online by providing coupons and comparison between the goods. It will display ads on your websites especially the merchants like Expedia, Kmart, Petsmart and so on.
It seems to be a useful service by presenting you available coupons on the right side of your browser window. While Offer Boulevard adware is designed specifically to make money by displaying pop-up advertisements, coupons, banners, and other related online ads. So the cyber criminals can get the from their sponsors or from the pay-per-click revenue. It will displays unstoppable ads no matter you want them or not. It will show ads according to your search words or may highline some random words and display related ads.
If you click the pop ups by accident, you will be redirected to other websites which will be full of pop up ads, some malicious links may even contain malware such as browser hijacker, adware, ransomware and other viruses. You can see the advertisements labeled with “Ads by Offer Boulevard” or “Ads not by this Site”.You may click its related websites or links and install some malware automatically. under the circumstances, Offer Boulevard will put your system at risk.
If your computer has been infected with Offer Boulevard , you ‘d better remove it as soon as possible. To have a normal PC operation and keep the system away from other troubles, it is recommended to have Spyhunter anti-malware scan your computer to find the infections and remove them.
Symptoms of Offer Boulevard :
<<It injects advertising banners and coupons on the web pages that you are visiting.
<<It turns some words or random web page text into hyperlinks and display related ads .
<<It pops up a webpage which recommend fake updates or other software to mislead user.
<<It introduces other unwanted programs to the system without the user’s knowledge.
Here in this post, there are two solutions to remove Offer Boulevard
<<Remove Offer Boulevard by using SpyHunter anti-malware.
<< Remove Offer Boulevard manually.
Instructions to get rid of Offer Boulevard
Instruction for using SpyHunter anti-malware:
SpyHunter is a world-famous real-time malware protection and removal tool, which is designed to detect , remove and protect your PC from the latest malware attacks, such as Trojans, worms, rootkits, rogue viruses, browser hijacker, ransomware, adware, key-loggers, and so forth. 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.
Step1. Download SpyHunter by clicking on the icon below.
Step2. Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter.
Step3. SpyHunter will start scanning your system automatically right after the installation has been completed successfully.
Step4. Select the detect malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses and invaders.
Step 5. Scan your computer again with Spyhunter to check.
Step 1. Open Control Panel using instructions below base on your operating system.
Accessing Control Panel on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
Click on Start > Control Panel. Window should open where you can adjust your computer settings.
Accessing Control Panel on Windows 8
a) Hover your mouse on lower-left corner of the screen and wait for the icon to appear.
b) Right-click on the icon to display list of accessible programs.
c) Select Control Panel from the list. Window should open where you can adjust your computer settings.
Step 2. When Control Panel window appears, click on ‘Uninstall a program’ under Programs area.
Step 3. On the opening window, select the program you want to remove.
Step 4 : Remove the Offer Boulevard Add-ons and Extensions from your browser
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';
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Step 5. Open Registry Editor by navigating to Start Menu, type in Regedit, and then click OK. When you have been in Registry Editor, please remove the following related files and registry entries:
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
Step 6. Scan your computer again with Spyhunter to check.
Note: Manually removal is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you are not so professional on computer and cannot solve the problem manually, you are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove malware for you easily and quickly. Furthermore, Spyhunter can block the malware and protect your computer from being attacked. Download Spyhunter to keep your computer from many computer invaders now.
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