How to remove Popcornew?

What do you know about Popcornew？

Popcornew is a browser add-on which can be considered as an adware program. This adware can get into the computer along with free software, files and drivers. You may also get infect by opening spam emails, sharing corrupt content, or clicking to unsafe web sites, and so on. Popcornew claims to enhance your experience on shopping online by showing you small alerts for each available offer, always according to the websites you are visiting, and you will also have access to the Box for more bargains and discounts.


It seems a useful application, however, it is not. This is an ads-supported platform created by the creator to make profits by generating a lot of ads on your browser. Once this Popcornew gets into the computer successfully, it will change the browser setting and replace your homepage. You will get the pop up automatically.

If you install the Popcornew on your computer, you will get a lot of pop-up ads, coupons, banners and  sponsor links on all your browser. Popcornew is not responsible for the quality and credit of the products. You should not believe in the ads. What’s more, Popcornew keeps data regarding user’s navigation in order to match with user’s interests. It will record the date of first visit, number of visits, date of last visit, URL and domain, operating system, browser and screen resolution.

Your personal information will be collect and send to the third party for marketing. If you click any of pop ups from Popcornew, you may have the risk to install and encounter other malicious software. It is recommended to remove Popcornew from your computer. It is suggested remove it as soon as possible. And it is highly recommended to keep a powerful anti-virus like Spyhunter on the computer to remove and block viruses.

Harmful properties of Popcornew

It can terminates several executable processes or applications on the computer.
It will slow down the internet connection and PC performance in a large scale.
It will displays misleading pop ups or advertisements to trick the computer users.
It will alter windows registry, modify system settings as well as browser settings.
It will violates system security and steals the private and confidential data.

Two effective methods to remove Popcornew permanently from your computer system

1. Remove Popcornew manually.

2. Remove Popcornew by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Detail instruction:

Method one: Manually remove Popcornew

Step 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together and stop related processes in the Windows Task Manager.
Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 4. Delete related malicious registry entries.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 5- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky 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” and clean up all cookies from the list.

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”

Internet Explorer:

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

Method two: Automatically get rid of Popcornew with Spyhunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.