Effective Methods to Remove Adware: Win32/Peapoon Completely

What is Adware: Win32/Peapoon? 

Hi, my computer just found Adware: Win32/Peapoon on it and I have used MSE to remove it. I’m currently doing another scan, but I was wondering can MSE completely remove it or should I get another software to remove it. Also I don’t know how it got on my laptop as I did a scan earlier and nothing was found and did another scan and it showed up. I would like to know how it got on my laptop. 

Adware: Win32/Peapoon is an adware that can slinkingly get to your computer without your permission. It is a kind of adware that bother you a lot and deserves to be deleted as early as possible. I put it in this way because of the following reasons:


1. Adware: Win32/Peapoon sneaks into your computer without you knowing of it. It’s a kind of thing that one cannot bear. Everything that gets into user’s computer without any authorization is a potential threat to a user.
2. Adware: Win32/Peapoon displays numerous ads when your turn on your computer and search something. After you close this pop-up, another one will come again very soon. You will be fed up with these annoying ads.
3. Adware: Win32/Peapoon provides you many coupons and deals that seem available to induce you to click on them. Apart from generating the pay-per-click revenue, redirecting you to its certain web can also bring its programmer a lot of profits.
4. Adware: Win32/Peapoon slow down your PC running speed and make you PC performance poor.

How does Adware: Win32/Peapoon get on your computer? 

The main approach that Adware: Win32/Peapoon can get to your computer is that during you are downloading and installing some shareware or programs from the Internet. Adware: Win32/Peapoon is typically bundled with other applications. So you should be more cautious when you download programs from unknown resources. Anyway, if your computer had already attacked by Adware: Win32/Peapoon, follow the instructions below to get rid of it at once.

Remove Adware: Win32/Peapoon with SpyHunter automatically.

If you want to remove Adware: Win32/Peapoon, I would like to recommend SpyHunter because it can easily delete Adware: Win32/Peapoon and other unwanted programs and virus completely and permanently. And I’m sure you will benefit a lot from its usefulness. Detailed instructions are given below.

 1.    Click on “Download” and when it pops up “File Download – Security Warning”, click “Run”.

 2.    When you see this image, again you click on “Run”.

3.    Select your language, click “OK” and “Continue”.

4.    As shown in the image below, “INSTALL” SpyHunter.

5.    Select all the threats related to Adware: Win32/Peapoon and clean up.


If you prefer to delete Adware: Win32/Peapoon manually, I also present you instructions step by step.

Instructions to remove Adware: Win32/Peapoon manually.

Step 1: Stop Adware: Win32/Peapoon from Task Manager.

Right-click on the taskbar then you can see the menu.

Or you can press “Windows” together with “R” on your keyboard, type “taskmgr” in the input box.

You can choose what related to Adware: Win32/Peapoon and “End Process”.

Step 2: Find hidden files and folders related to Adware: Win32/Peapoon and clean out.

Click at left bottom, click on “Control Panel” option.

Click on “Appearance and Personalization”.

Then you can find “Show hidden files and folders” under “Folder Option” and click it.

Finally, you can successfully find out the relevant hidden files and folders and delete them.

Step 3: Remove Adware: Win32/Peapoon from Registry Editor.

Press “Windows” + “R”, then fill in the input box with “regedit”.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"

Personally speaking, I think remove Adware: Win32/Peapoon from Registry Editor is difficult. If you think so, then you can use SpyHunter to help you get rid of Adware: Win32/Peapoon and all the other harmful virus completely and permanently.

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Step 4: Clean up Adware: Win32/Peapoon and its relevant components from Browsers.

1.    Click on Customized and Google Chrome-> Choose Settings -> Go to Extensions. Locate Adware: Win32/Peapoon and select it -> click Trash button

Click   at the top right corner on the homepage of Google Chrome, click on “History” option.

Select all the history related to Adware: Win32/Peapoon and clean up.

2.    Click on “Open Menu” button at the top right corner on homepage of Mozilla Firefox and click “Add-ons”

Click the add-ons and extensions related to Adware: Win32/Peapoon and clean up.

In the end, I would like to mention that SpyHunter not only can delete Adware: Win32/Peapoon, but also can scan for all the useless and detrimental components on your computer and clear up.

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(Sheryl)