How Do I Get Rid of Shoppingbuddy Ads - Tips to Completely Remove Shoppingbuddy Adware

Shoppingbuddy is not a helpful application:

Shoppingbuddy is an advertising add-on. You should realize that promotional add-on is not malicious as computer virus like Trojan horse infection, but you can note its irritating characters. After getting into the target system, Shoppingbuddy adds itself onto all the web browsers ( no matter you are using Google Chrome, IE, or Mozilla Firefox, etc.) without any permission. Every time you open a new tab, endless adverting windows will pop up all over the browser constantly. Those nettlesome popups occupy large part of the browser windows, leaving you no space to browse any content on the web pages.

Symptoms of Shoppingbuddy:

1. Display ads: Shoppingbuddywill display massive unwantedadvertisements when users open their Google Chrome, IE, Firefox, or other web browsers;
2. Change settings: Shoppingbuddyis able to change the default settings of the browsers including home pages, default search engines and startup page;
3. Launch automatically: Shoppingbuddy alerts the startup items and installs toolbar into the target computer so as to launch automatically;
4. Dangerous to privacy: Shoppingbuddy records users' searching habits, keywords and browsing histories to monitor users' online activities.

You get the point: you should not install Shoppingbuddy your computer and you shouldn’t keep it on there either if it’s already there. You’ll find below two useful guides for effectively getting rid of it once and for all.

Effective Shoppingbuddy Removal Guide:

Method one: manually remove Shoppingbuddy

Method two: completely delete Shoppingbuddy with SpyHunter antivirus

Method one: manually remove Shoppingbuddy

Step one: End all the running processes of Shoppingbuddy.

1.Open task manager by clicking Alt+Ctrl+Del keys together. 

Another way is to press the Start button and choose the Run option, and then type taskmgr and press OK.

2. Stop all the nasty running processes of Shoppingbuddy.

Step two:  Show all hidden files and clean all the harmful files about Shoppingbuddy

1.Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and  Personalization, to find Folder Options then click on it twice.

2.In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and unfold Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

3. Clean all the malicious files about Shoppingbuddy

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe

%Temp%\random.exe

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step three: Remove all the registry entries by using the following processes. 

1.Open Registry Editor by clicking Windows+R keys together.

 Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, and then type regedit and press Enter.

2. Figure out all harmful registry entries as follows and delete them:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \Regedit32HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random

Step four: Remove add-ons and extensions added by Shoppingbuddy from your web browsers.

1. Google Chrome:

(1) Click the Customize and Control menu button----Tools----click Extensions.

(2) Select all extensions caused by Shoppingbuddy, and then click (

)

2. Firefox:

(1) Open Mozilla Firefox.

(2) Click the Firefox menu, click Options, and then click Privacy.

(3) Under the Privacy tab, click on Remove Individual Cookies link.

(4) In the Cookies showing box, eliminate all the cookies created by Shoppingbuddy 

3. Internet Explorer:

(1) Make sure yourself at the Internet Options window.

(2) Click on the General tab.

(3) Check Delete Browsing History On Exit option, and click the Delete button.

Shoppingbuddy manual removal is relatively complicated, but for the safety of your PC, speedy removal is needed. If you are not familiar with the above manual removal instruction, you are suggested to use a professional and certificated antivirus program to get Shoppingbuddy removed automatically from your system.

Method two: automatically delete Shoppingbuddy with SpyHunter antivirus

Step one: Download SpyHunter by clicking the button below:

Step two: Click on Download, and then follow the installation process of SpyHunter step by step.

1. In the showing box, click Run.

2. Click: I accept the license agreement, and then press Next.

3. Wait for a while to install the applications.

4. Click Finish.

5. After installation, you can click Yes to restart your computer to make SpyHunter effect, or press No, if you’d like to restart it later manually.

Step three:scan and delete every threats caused by Shoppingbuddy.

1. To do a full scanning with SpyHunter to find out every threats in your computer.

2. After that, you need to select every detected threats about Shoppingbuddy and remove them all.

Note: manual removal procedure requires certain expert skills to avoid wrong operation which may damage your computer permanently. And you need to be very careful to distinguish all the harmful files and registries due to the changeable characters of Shoppingbuddy.

If you have spent too much time in manual removing Shoppingbuddy and still not make any progress, you’d better stop and choose the automatic removal method - download and install Spyhunter here to remove Shoppingbuddy for you immediately and completely.