Click.suretofind.com was the first to introduce sponsorship tab virus to surfers. Nowadays, another one supports sponsorship popup virus, whose URL is ww.milesandkms.com/g/?ilm. One prominent symptom to tell sponsorship affection is to get endless popup telling PC owners that there are various PC problems like computer is running critically low on memory or out-dated media player that owners need to update.
What ww.milesandkms.com/g/?ilm displays is a scam. Once unwitting click is made, registry entries of sponsorship are injected into the target computer immediately. Up to that point, victim is left with nothing but troubles:
One thing worth your attention, there were cases that clicks on scam popup like sponsorship would bring to a locked down computer because of counterfeit police virus like Mandiant USA Cyber Security. It is not a surprise because vulnerability is formed the moment entries of sponsorship are placed. Such vulnerability is easily being exploited by deadly virus. Therefore, close attention is required to be attached to sponsorship, and an immediate action is called upon to remove sponsorship popup virus.
As an adware, sponsorship manages to put itself onto certain type of web sites, especially those commercial or promoting sites. Besides, sponsorship is usually collaborating with some phony anti-virus program. Therefore, it is advisable to behave oneself when shopping online and attach more attention to programs one is planning on downloading.
Sponsorship is a tricky adware that exploit the vulnerability on your system. Thus, one should play regular update on both system and installed programs. Run reputable anti-virus programs to check on vulnerability, if any, download patch to fix it.
It has also been found that many surfers don’t actually know certain search engine is a virus, so they download the virus to be default homepage, causing a lot of problems that will never end. For this reason, one should make it a point to update oneself with virus knowledge and new list of virus.
Step one – End sponsorship’s startup item to stop its automatic popup.
a. Windows7/vista/XP users are welcome to follow up:
Start Menu -> Select ‘Run’ -> type ‘MSCONFIG’ -> System Configuration Pops up
b. Windows 8 users are welcome to follow up:
It is under Task Manager that we manage startup items in Windows 8, so we just need to disable sponsorship’s startup item after clicking on Startup tab there.
Step two – Exterminate sponsorship’s running processes in Task Manager
a. Windows7/vista/XP users are welcome to follow up:
Above two key combinations are available to bring up Task Manager.
b. Windows 8 users are welcome to follow up:
Start screen > type ‘Task’ or ‘Task Manager’ > click on process tab.
Step three – Disable sponsorship pop up with build-in functionality:
a. Mozilla Firefox users are welcome to follow up:
Open Mozilla Firefox > click Tools > click Options > click the Web features button > remove sponsorship.
b. Microsoft Internet Explorer users are welcome to follow up:
Open Internet Explorer > click Tools > click Options > click the Privacy tab > Pop-up Blocker section > check “Block pop-ups” option to remove sponsorship.
c. Google Chrome users are welcome to follow up:
Use Google Toolbar that includes a free popup blocker to disable shopathome.com
Step four – Disable cookies generated by sponsorship
a. Internet Explorer users are welcome to follow up:
Open Internet Explorer > click Tools > click on Internet Options > click on the General tab > locate “Browsing History” section > click “Delete”.
b. Mozilla Firefox users are welcome to follow up:
Open Mozilla Firefox > click Tools > click Options > click on the Privacy tab > hit “Clear Now” > select “Cookies” > click on “Clear Private Data Now”.
c. Google Chrome users are welcome to follow up:
Open Google Chrome > click on the spanner icon in the top right of the browser > select “Options” > click on “Under the Bonnet” (UK) / “Under the Hood” (US) > hit the “Content settings” button in the Privacy section > hit the “Clear browsing data” button.
d. Safari users are welcome to follow up:
Open Safari > go to the Safari menu (icon in top right of browser) > select Preferences > select the Security icon (a padlock) > “Accept Cookies” > hit the “Never” button.
Step five – Delete registry entries of sponsorship
Go to the Registry Editor to delete entries related to sponsorship by typing ‘regedit’ (without quptation) in Run box.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
Attention:
As sponsorship is keeping updating itself, it is highly recommended to implement quick removal on it so that the above steps are to help with a complete removal. If you get more junks and vicious items apart from sponsorship, you may need to go to center for computer virus removal and consult VilmaTech online support for a customized solution which guarantees a complete removal.
