How to Remove "ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO" Virus (Easy Guide)

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What is ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO?

ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO is classified as Win32:PUP-gen (potentially unwanted program).

ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO detected as PUP.AD.BY.
What is PUP? PUP is crapware.
ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO have several types of unwanted behaviour:

Displaying popup ads.
Hijacking your browser.
Infecting your desktop shortcuts, etc.
Inserting ads to the web pages.

ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO can redirect your browser search, collect your personal information and sell it for advertising.
ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO is usually hard in removing. Some people could not find uninstall program for ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO in the Control Panel.
Sometimes ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO uninstaller does not work.

How ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO got on your computer?

Usually you got ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO with as part of a bundle with another tool you downloaded from the Internet. Since ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO manufacturer pays software developers for distributing ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO within their applications, ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO is often included as part of the installer.
Usually, you have not only one ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO problem, but a bunch of similar WIN32:PUPs.

You have 2 ways to remove ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

You know only one virus name: "ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
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Here’s how to remove ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO virus automatically:

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So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
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How to remove ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

check installed programs to uninstall

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove ADTRUSTMEDIA POWERED BY YAHOO from scheduled task list.