Remove Chitika Popups – Chitika Virus Removal

I have been getting popups in all browsers in the bottom right and left corners of my browser screen. That is really annoying. Now I get Chitika I cannot get rid of. It covers the entire bottom of the browser screen and makes my browsers unusable. Sometimes it redirects me to other web sites. I have tried many security tools but none of them can detect this virus. What should I do now? How do I remove Chitika Popups?

What Is Chitika Popups? Is It A Dangerous Virus?

Chitika virus is classified as an adware program just like Savings Addon focusing on delivering banner ads to computer users. When it is installed, you may start getting pop-up windows asking to participate in a survey or displaying various advertisements from time to time. They show up whenever you browse the Internet. Although an adware is not quite malicious in nature, it still makes users worry. In fact there are many legitimate programs, including games, that now display ads on your computer or within the software itself. These types of programs display these ads to generate further revenue for the developers or to promote other software that they may sell. But getting stubborn adware in your PC can be frustrating.

Being as an adware program, it changes your browser setting and degrades overall web browser stability and performance. Chitika virus has been criticized because it usually includes code that tracks a user’s personal information and passes it on to third parties, without the user’s authorization or knowledge. And what drives users crazy is that it can display advertisements on your computer without your permission or the knowledge of what program is generating them. It will be harder for you to uninstall so that the creator can continue earning revenue through their advertisements. Chitika virus also can come bundled with iLivid virus so that it can redirect a web browser to a predefined site whenever the user enters invalid address or performs an Internet search. Considering Chitika is an annoying and unsafe program, it must be removed as soon as possible.

Screen shot of this Adware:

Infected Symptoms:

1. It can redirect you to malicious websites with numerous pop up ads to interrupt and stop you from doing anything on your computer;
2. It can turn your computer to run slowly and pose sudden death;
3. It can introduce more unwanted viruses and rogue programs to do further harms;
4. It can help cyber criminals track your online activities and capture significant personal data to cause you a loss of value.
5. It can change your default DNS configuration and block you accessing your favorite sites.
6. It forcibly customizes the default homepage, search engine and bookmarks of your computer.

Chitika Adware Virus Is Dangerous:

Chitika adware may be installed if a computer user has ever visited illegal or malicious websites or downloaded freeware or shareware from untrustworthy sources. It can cause annoying redirection to disturb users. This problem happen when you use Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, even Google Chrome to browse online. Being as a redirect virus, it keeps tracking of computer users’ online activity and causing web browser to display unwanted advertisements and pop-up windows. It poses huge risk for all the computer systems. If you have been forced to visit those unwanted websites against your authorization, particularly for this domain, you must immediately remove Chitika popups as soon as possible in order to secure your computer.

Malicious Adware Manual Removal Guides:

Considering Chitika Popups can’t be fixed by any security tools, uses can use the manual guide below to fix this issue without any risk.

1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.

Since tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.

Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”

2. Remove all add-ons and extensions

Google Chrome: Wrench Icon > Tools > Extensions
Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A)
Internet Explorer: Tools > Manage Add-ons

3. Show hidden files and folders.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab.

Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4. Remove all the malicious files manually.

%AppData%\Local\[random].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{random}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”

Video Shows You How to Safely Modify Windows Registry Editor:

After Chitika virus is successfully installed, it shows a word “Chitka” on the lower right corner of the window and you cannot easily close it. Apart from the crazy Chitika Popups, you may get fake facebook login page or fake flash player warning at the same time. This program displays various ads, collects information about your Internet browsing habits and shows targeted promotions based on your likes. It may collect data including internet activity, including browser history, bookmarks, stored data, and more. Therefore, it is suggested users to use the manual removal instructions above to remove Chitika completely and permanently.

If you are not a computer wiz and afraid of making mistake, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.

Published by & last updated on April 29, 2013 1:04 am