Hijacker Removal Expert: How to Remove GoSSave Ads Completely

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

How to Remove GoSSave Ads Completely - Removal Guide

What is GoSSave ads?

"I still have this 1 GoSSave chrome browser extension that refuses to leave. Upon deletion, it attempts to change the homepage and then reinstalls itself into Chrome. I ran into tons of alerts of malware and adware along the way so I don't know if I missed anything."

GoSSave is classified as a browser extension which can compatible with almost all the famous browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. it is claimed to improve your online computer activities. In fact, it seems intrusive for it always gets into your computer without your knowledge and displays numerous pop up as on every site that you are visiting.

To live with this adware, it will try to modify your default homepage and can reinstall itself if you delete it as I displayed above. How can it get into your computer without your knowledge? Just like other adware, it can come along with free software downloads, if you just agree on the default installation and didn’t pay attention to the optional program, you may allow the adware like GoSSave to get into your computer without your permission. Have tried various ways but still got no luck? No worries, you are welcome to follow the removal guide listed below:

Solution one:Step by Step Guide to Manually Delete GoSSave ads

Step 1- Remove add-ons:

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';

Step 2- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 3- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 4- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

Step 5-Restart your computer normally to check the effectiveness.

Solution two: Get rid of GoSSave by automatic scan of SpyHunter removal tool

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to help computer users to clean up the infections like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool