How to Remove Crimewatch PUP Completely?

What is Crimewatch?

Crimewatch is categorized as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) with adware capabilities to take control of almost all type of your web browsers and display numerous pop-ups and inline-text ads to promote advertisements and generate traffic for certain websites and products in order to gain pageviews and per-click revenue.

How Crimewatch comes into your PC?

Generally, this PUP comes into your computer unexpectedly without asking for your permission. It always make its way into your computer by the means of being bundled with free downloads, browsing suspicious websites, opening intrusive links, or clicking malicious pop-ups.

What can Crimewatch do to affect your PC and your online life?

Once installed, this program has the strong ability to attack your Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and more other web browsers. In details, it will firstly install itself as browser extension into all your web browsers and modify their settings. You browser default home page as well as the default search engine will be changed. Thus it is easier and more convenient to track your online searches, record your online activities, and collect your private information.

Every time you launch your web browser, it will generate millions of pop-ups according to your online searches and display them on each web page you are browsing to annoy you and trick you into clicking. Displaying the pop-up ads is a means for its developers to get pay-per-click revenue.

Its pop-up ads vary from fake update massages, recommended software, great deals, coupons and discounts. Usually most of those pop-ups contain some malicious infections like malware, ransomware, adware, spyware, Trojan horses and worms. Any clicking will redirect you to irrelevant web pages and download more unwanted infections to badly damage your computer.

Gradually, your computer will result in poor performance such as slow operating speed, taking a long time to turn on or shut down and even frequently getting the blue or black screen of death which can further damage the computer hardware.

In short, this Crimewatch is a PUP that can display endless pop-up ads and cause large amounts of problems. You should remove Crimewatch as soon as possible, and always pay attention when surfing the Internet because often, any careless networks includes optional installs, such as this Crimewatch PUP.

How to remove Crimewatch PUP effectively and completely?

Method A: Remove Crimewatch Manually
Method B: Remove Crimewatch Automatically

Method A: Remove Crimewatch Manually

Step 1. Stop Crimewatch running process in Windows Task Manager.

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button, type "Run" to select the option, type "taskmgr" and press OK > end Crimewatch running process.

Step 2. Uninstall Crimewatch program in Control Panel. 

Click Start button> Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find its associated program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program.

Step 3.  Reset your browsers to clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

Internet Explorer:
1) Open Internet Explorer, click the Gear icon or Tools > Internet options. 
2) Go to the Advanced tab, click the Reset button > Reset Internet Explorer settings > Delete personal settings > click on Reset option. 
3) Click Close and OK to save the changes.

Mozilla Firefox:
1) Open Mozilla Firefox, go to the Help section > Troubleshooting Information. 
2) Select Reset Firefox and click Finish.

Google Chrome:
1) Click the Chrome menu button, select Tools > Extensions, find unknown extension and remove them by clicking Recycle bin. 
2) Click Settings > Show Advanced settings > Reset browser settings and click Reset.

Step 4. Restart your computer to take effect. 

Method B: Remove Crimewatch Automatically

Step 1. Install SpyHunter.

1) Download SpyHunter-Installer.exe here, or or click the below button to download the file on your computer.

2)  Click Run to install SpyHunter and finish the installation step by step.

Step 2. Remove all the detected threats with SpyHunter. 

1) After the installation is complete, open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now! to start a scan on your computer.

Step Four: When the scan is done, you can see that all the threats including Crimewatch are detected successfully. Then click Fix Threats button to clean your computer.

Friendly Reminded:
Using reliable anti-malicious software is the most efficient way for the victims who have a little knowledge about computer or are afraid of using manual removals to remove Crimewatch pop-up ads. You can download SpyHunter here and it will help you to solve all the problems efficiently and permanently.

Step 3. Clean Out the Trash

If you want to clean out the trash produced by Crimewatch or uninstalling programs, manage your startup items and optimize your computer performance, it is recommended to apply RegCure Pro to help you. Here shows how it works.

1) Freely download RegCure Pro here, or click the below button to download the file.

2) Double click on its application and click the Yes button to install the program step by step.

3) After the installation is complete, open the program and scan your system for unnecessary files and invalid registry entries. That will take some time for the first scanning. Please wait while the program scans your system for performance problems.

4) When the System Scan is done, click Fix All button to correct all the security risks and potential causes of your computer slow performance.

Friendly Reminded:
Unless you know what you are doing, do not modify anything in the Registry Editor other than what is instructed here. Want to speed up computer as seen on TV? Just download and install RegCure Pro here, and it will do its best to help you speed up your computer performance.