How to Get Rid of Razor Web Completely
What Is Razor Web?
Razor Web belongs to the adware family, which causes a lot of malicious actions and can interrupt browsing activities by altering browser settings. This adware can deliver many ads on your browsers when getting installed on your computer. As it is able to come along with suspicious online resources and can downloaded from insecure sites, it can enters the target computer without any manual process.
As an ad-supported program, Razor Web may not be as dangerous as a computer virus but it is utilized to display hundreds of advertisements and add other unnecessary or even harmful applications to the target machine. Once installed, the adware displays a plenty of commercial ads and sponsored links to attract users and generate traffic. Then you will see in-text, pop-ups, banners and coupon ads on your screen out of nowhere when you are surfing the Internet. If you don’t want your personal information to be compromised, we strongly suggest that you remove Razor Web from your computer as quickly as possible.
How Did You Get the Razor Web Adware?
Sometimes you may have this adware installed on the computer when you download and install a piece of freeware that is bundled with Razor Web, Language Learning, ClickDownload, DealFinder, Yontoo or FBPhotoZoom, etc. Any of these unsafe programs will contain Razor Web ads. Most of the time, you may just click Next, click Next, and click Next when installing an application, which allows the adware or other optional programs to get installed on your computer as well. No matter what you click on them by chance, it will automatically get installed on your computer. Once It is installed to the computer, all the browsers can be infected including IE, FF, or Chrome which makes it hard to be removed.
How to Get Rid of Razor Web Completely?
Razor Web adware may pose a threat to your computer security and privacy security, so we highly recommend removing it from your machine promptly. Whenever you are online, your screen will pop up numerous coupons, sponsored links, ads and other unknown websites. Please follow the steps to remove this nasty adware now.
Step 1: Remove unwanted add-ons added by Razor Web.
Internet Explorer:
Start the IE browser.
Click on “Tools” and navigate to “Manage add-ons”.
On “Toolbars and Extensions”, find out and disable the questionable add-ons.
Mozilla Firefox:
Open the Firefox browser.
Click on “Tools” and select “Add-ons”.
On “Extensions” and “Plugins”, find out and remove/disable the suspicious add-ons.
Google Chrome:
Launch the Chrome browser.
Click on the Wrench icon, select “Tools” and go to “Extensions”.
On “Extensions”, find out and delete the unwanted extensions.
Step 2: Open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt+ Del. Search for the adware related processes and kill them by selecting “End Process”.
Step 3: Find and delete the adware related files from the following folders.
%UserProfile%\
%ProgramFiles%\
%AppData%Local%\
%Profile%\Local Settings\Temp\
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\
Step 4: Press Windows key + R key together. Type "regedit" into the box and press Enter. In the Register Editor, search for the adware related registry entries and delete them from your computer.
As a dangerous adware, Razor Web will bring chaos to the target machine and totally mess up the entire computer. Thus, PC users need to be very caution while dealing with this adware whether your computer is infected by not. It is also important to keep a good habit of browsing the Internet to prevent such unwanted things.
Tips to Prevent Your PC From Infection
1. Install an effective anti-malware program. If you have no idea how to remove Razor Web manually from your computer, it is suggested to download an advanced removal tool on your computer. It is a professional and powerful removal tool which can help you solve any PC problem, even though you lack of sufficient skills. It can also provide real time protection to protect your PC from other threats on the computer.
2. Make sure the software installed on your computer up-to-date. It has a big chance to get infected with Razor Web if you download software/application from unknown websites. Having the security programs updated makes computer more secured and helps against from Trojan, worms, adware, and rootkits attacks. If your software can be set to update automatically, you should go to the vendor’s website and obtain the newest version manually.
3. Maximize the security potential of your network. Each browser has its own secure setting which can protect your actions when surfing Internet. When you need to use them, you’d better ensure they aren’t infected by this virus.
4.Do not open Spam emails and attachments. Internet is a double-edged sword, it is convenient, but it's not free from danger. You should use extra caution with links in email messages, sharing files, and pop-up ads. It is likely that you would download malware onto your computer the next minute when you click on a link or download a file. Try not to stay on an unknown websites which contain pornographic contents or offer free downloads for a long time.
