How to get rid of PUP.Optional.Superfish.A completely?

PUP.Optional.Superfish.A was detected and quarantined on my PC. However, it seems that this threat keeps coming back over and over again after I boot computer. I’ve tried to use several antivirus programs to remove but nothing will get rid of the virus. Something weird starts to occur on my infected PC. Help please!!

What is PUP.Optional.Superfish.A?
PUP.Optional.Superfish.A, as its name suggests, is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). It is unwanted software that may cause problems once it is installed on your computer. To your surprise, it is you who consent to its being installed. It cannot install itself without your knowledge and permission. Usually, this unwanted program is downloaded and installed with legitimate applications. When you download a program from the Internet and neglect to read the download agreement, you may fail to understand what other unwanted programs are being downloaded and you are unaware of these additional installations if you do not read agreements thoroughly. In fact, this PUP is related to spyware or adware programs and may cause undesirable behavior on your computer once it is installed.

Many PUPs look harmless and you may not find out about their obnoxious behavior until after they are installed. As a matter of fact, PUPs can be seen as a euphemism for malware. When you consent to downloading and installing a piece of software that is bundled with this PUP, you will start to notice the problems caused by the unwanted program. This PUP may hijack your web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and display annoying advertisements. All of a sudden, when you find you browser performs weirdly after you installed a new application it is probably that your computer has been infected by malware. Moreover, your computer performance may become very slow because the PUP runs multiple background processes and occupies a lot of system resources. Therefore, when your antivirus program detects PUP.Optional.Superfish.A, please remove it as soon as possible.

Note: PUPs are often installed along with legitimate applications, so please not agree to install extra programs if you don’t know what they are. If you are unluckily a victim of the PUP but the security tools cannot delete it, you are suggested to use SpyHunter – a professional removal tool to detect and clear various cyber threats completely.

What’s the effective ways to get rid of the PUP?
Occasionally, if your security software detects PUP.Optional.Superfish.A virus, it may not be able to get rid of it completely. The PUP may add some plug-ins or toolbars to your browser to further take control of the system. All files generated by this program should be deleted fully from computer.

You can follow our simple removal instruction to remove the computer threat effectively. If you are a computer newbie and don’t know much about computer, we suggest you to an excellent removal tool to rapidly remove the PUP. It can speed up your computer and removes any possible other threats from your computer without harming the system. If you ensure that you can handle the PUP by yourself, you can follow the manual steps to deal with the threat.

How to get rid of PUP.Optional.Superfish.A completely?
As the above has mentioned, the PUP comes along with other legitimate applications. You can choose to eliminate the unwanted program by using a professional removal tool or delete the components of the PUP manually by yourself.

Option1: Automatically remove PUP.Optional.Superfish.A with SpyHunter
SpyHunter is a professional antivirus program from Enigma Software. It is a tool that can scan and remove spyware, malware or stubborn unwanted programs from your computer completely with advanced techniques and quick updated virus database. If the regular security tools on your PC cannot pick up or delete the threat, please use SpyHunter to deal with it.

Step1. Download SpyHunter on your PC.

Step2: Save the file to a proper location on the computer.

Step3: Run the file to install it.

Step4. When the file is installed successfully, click Finish button.

Step5. Click Scan computer now to scan your computer.

Step6. Click Remove to delete all the threats found.

Option2: Manually remove PUP.Optional.Superfish.A (For advanced computer users)
Step1. Uninstall the software that is associated with the PUP

Windows XP

Click Start, go to Control Panel and double click on Add/Remove Programs. In the Currently installed programs, select the software associated with the PUP and click Remove button to delete it.

Windows 7/Vista

Click Start, go to Control Panel and double click Uninstall a Program. In the list of Currently installed programs, highlight the program responsible for the unwanted program and click Uninstall button to remove it.

Note: If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Windows 8

Move the cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Charms bar and click Settings, go to Control Panel and click Uninstall a program. Remove the unwanted program and other unknown programs from your computer.
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Step2. Delete the add-ons related to PUP.Optional.Superfish.A from web browsers.

Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox, click on Tools and click on Add-on Manager. Select the add-ons strange to you and click Remove to get rid of them.

Internet Explorer

Open IE, click Tools and click Manager Add-ons. Choose the malicious add-ons and disable them.

Google Chrome

Open Chrome, click 3-bars and click Tools. Click “Extensions” and choose the unwanted extensions and click the trash box ext to it to remove it.

Step3. Delete the files created by the unwanted program.

Click Start button, point to Control Panel and double click Folder Options (For Windows XP) or click Start > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Folder Options (For Windows 7/Vista) or access the Control Panel >Type “folder” into the search bar and select Show hidden files and folders (For Windows 8).

In the pop-up Folder Options box, click the View tab. Under Advanced settings, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

Search for the related files and have them deleted.

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage\http_www.superfish.com_0.localstorage

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage\http_www.superfish.com_0.localstorage-journal

Step4. Delete the registry created by the PUP.

To open Windows registry, click Start, go to Run, type regedit in the box and click OK.

In the Windows Registry, locate to the registry entries related to the threat and remove all of them.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{D2D09FE0-F451-45F7-A617-FABF9130C4D6}

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{D2D09FE0-F451-45F7-A617-FABF9130C4D6}

PUP.Optional.Superfish.A is a potentially unwanted program that can be installed on your computer in deceptive ways. It often comes along with other free applications and gets installed secretly. It makes many modifications on the system files and registry entries and affects the computer performance. It may drastically slow down your PC performance by taking up a large amount of system resources. It may also install additional plug-ins/toolbars to the web browsers and interfere with your browsing experience. Hundreds of pop-up ads may be displayed on your computer. What’s worse, it can monitor and record your browser cookies and send your information to third parties for malicious uses. Therefore, you should not keep PUP.Optional.Superfish.A on the computer and delete it as soon as you find it on the PC.

Warning: It is risky to delete the registry entries of the program manually for any deletion valid registry entry that contains the system configuration or settings information can lead to serious damage to your computer system. If you don’t know the exact registry entries of PUP.Optional.Superfish.A, you are suggested to use a smart tool like SpyHunter to delete the PUP fully and safely.