Remove Ads Powered by Helper King - Completely Get Rid of Helper King Pop-ups

What is Helper King?

Helper King is a notorious adware which may keep creating unwanted ads to attract people's attention once invading into the target system. Besides popping up annoying ads, this adware also launches new browser window or ‘New Tab’ displaying full-page banner. Moreover, some pop-ups from Helper King could have links which may redirect people to unsafe websites once users have clicked them.

This is how you are attacked by Helper King: 

• You may have click malicious links planted with the automatic installation of Helper King.
• You may have opened spam email attachments bundled with Helper King.
• You may have installed some freeware from the internet without paying attention to the installation process.

How to remove Ads Powered by Helper King effectively?

Many people want to get rid of Helper King completely, but most of them end with failure. Authors equipped Helper King with advanced rootkit technology which may help its harmful codes bypass most firewall and antispyware in the PC. Helper King is also so pesky that is able to constantly change the name and path of its key files on the compromised PC. Moreover, Helper King keeps adding new features and updating its codes, files and locations which results to the difficulty to find out all its related files.

As a result, if you don't have expert skills and experience to identify all the files of Helper King, it is recommended that you install SpyHunter which can detect all harmful elements and tracking cookies related to Helper King and then remove them together with other malicious programs found on your computer completely.

Guide to eliminate Helper King permanently

Method one: Automatically get rid of Helper King

Method two: Manually Remove Helper King

Method one: Automatically get rid of Helper King

To remove Helper King from your PCs, it is recommended to Download and install SpyHunter to detect and remove Helper King. SpyHunter is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using SpyHunter you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

 Step 1. Download SpyHunter by clicking the following download link:

Step 2. Double-click on the downloaded file. If asked to allow program to make changes to this computer, click “Yes” button.

Step 3. In this step, please accept the Licence Agreement and click “Next >” button.

Step 4. After the definition database is downloaded, system scan will automatically start.

Step 5. Remove Helper King and all other threats detected by SpyHunter.

 

Method two: Manually Remove Helper King

Step one: Stop Helper King running processes in the Task Manager.

Step two: disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Helper King.

Click Start menu ; click Run; type: msconfig in the Run box; click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step three: remove Helper King from browsers

For Google Chrome

 1. In the displayed URL field, type in chrome://extensions

2. Take a look at the provided extensions and take care of those which you find unnecessary (those related to Helper King) by deleting it. If you do not know whether one or another must be deleted once and for all, disable some of them temporarily.

3. Then, restart Chrome.

4. Optionally, you may type in chrome://settings in URL bar, move to Advanced settings, navigate to the bottom and choose Reset browser settings.

Step four: show hidden files and folders and delete harmful files of Helper King

Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Delete all the following files:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step five: open Registry Editor to delete all the registries added by Helper King

 Guide: 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_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ BrowserSafeguard \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0

Note: Manually removal Helper King is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you have not sufficient expertise on doing that, you may face risk of damaging the computer. In this circumstance, you are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove Helper King for you easily and quickly. Furthermore, you use Spyhunter to clean up unwanted files and optimize the computer.