Monday, August 10, 2015

How to Remove Gem Grab (Uninstall Guide)

Information about Gem Grab. 


Gem Grab is identified as an adware that can sneak into your computer without your permission. If your computer had ever been affected by Gem Grab, you would know what a nightmare to get rid of it. I would present powerful evidence below to support why I recommend you to remove Gem Grab.


 What can Gem Grab do to your computer? 


1. Countless of ads will swarm into your computer regardless of whether you want it or not. Especially when you are doing online shopping, ads are presented to you from time to time. Most of them are commercial ads, marketing messages, advertising pop-ups and promotional banners. But I would like to remind you that don’t trust any one of the coupons or discounts no matter how reliable and profitable they look. Gem Grab just displays ads to induce you to click and generate pay-per-click revenue.

2. Gem Grab is commonly bundled with other freeware from the Internet so that it can get downloaded and installed into your computer easily. After that, Gem Grab and all the relevant components brought by Gem Grab are run behind the screen to drag down the PC running speed. Thus, its producer can gain profits by the traffic.

3. Gem Grab can affect you computer in a more harmful way, that is, open backdoor the other virus. If you think Gem Grab is not detrimental enough to destroy your computer, what about the other virus like spyware, Trojan horse and ransomware? Your computer may not be able to afford these kinds of infections.

To prevent further damage cause by Gem Grab and have a optimal browsing experience, please follow the instructions below to remove Gem Grab.

 Instructions to remove Gem Grab manually.

 

Step 1: Stop the process from Task Manager.

Open your task manager (Windows 7), right-click on the taskbar then you can see the menu.

Also you can press Windows + R , type “taskmgr” in the input box and click “OK”.

After seeing the below image on your PC screen, you can choose the process related to Gem Grab and end it.

Step 2: Find hidden files and folders related to Gem Grab and clear out.

Click “start” button then click on the “control panel” option

1.    Click on “appearance and personalization”. This option is shown in the image below.

2.    You will find “show hidden files and folders” under “folder options” and select it.

3.    Finally, you can follow the below image to achieve finding the relevant hidden files and folders.

Step 3: Remove Gem Grab from Registry Editor.

Press “Windows” together with “R” to open the registry (Windows 7) , then you will come to a window as below. Fill “regedit” in the input box.

%AppData%\<random>.exe
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Search_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"

You may find that remove Gem Grab from Registry Editor manually is troublesome, then you can turn to SpyHunter to get help. SpyHunter can scan for all the harmful components in your computer and delete them completely. 


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Step 4: Delete Gem Grab from Browsers.

1.    Click on Customized and Google Chrome-> Choose Settings -> Go to Extensions. Locate Gem Grab and select it -> click Trash button

2.    Click on Customized and Google Chrome, click on “History”

Choose the surfing history related to Gem Grab and clear up.
3. Click on the "Open Menu" at the top right corner on the homepage of Mozilla Firefox. Then choose "Add-ons".

Click on everything related to Gem Grab and delete.

Get rid of Gem Grab with SpyHunter automatically.

 

Although you can delete Gem Grab with the above instructions, you cannot always clear all the useless and harmful files or software on your PC manually. So why not just give a try to use SpyHunter? SpyHunter can help you get rid of all the detrimental components on your computer completely and permanently. Detailed instructions are given below.
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1.    Then it will pop up “File Download-Security Warning” window, click on Run.


2.    When a window pops up, asking “Do you want to run this software?”. Again you choose to Run.

3.    Select your wanted language. Click OK.

4.    As the image shown below, click on the small circle before the right item. Then “INSTALL” it.

5.    Scan for the threats related to Gem Grab and clear up.

In summary, you will benefit a lot from SpyHunter with its usefulness. It is a powerful safeguard for your personal data and interests.


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