What is Gem Grab?
Gem Grab is a free program that claims to enhance your browsing experience. As a matter of fact, it is an ad-supported program which is capable of generating numerous commercial ads in your most used web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
Gem Grab can be downloaded from its official site, but it often invades a computer in hidden form without users' permission. When installed, it plants a great deal of commercial ads flooding in your browser whether you want the ads or not. These ads by Gem Grab entice you to click on and may result in malicious infections. Besides, it may consume all resources making the system performance and internet connection extremely slow.
Even though Gem Grab is not a malware and doesn't damage the system directly, it creates lots of situations that increase your chances of getting infected and in general disturbs your work quite badly. If you want to get rid of Gem Grab but don't know how, follow the removal guide here.
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How to remove Gem Grab easily and completely?
Method A: Remove Gem Grab Manually
Step 1. Uninstall Gem Grab in Control Panel.
Click Start button> Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find suspicious program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program.
Step 2. Remove Gem Grab extension or add-ons from your browsers
Internet Explorer:
1) Start Internet Explorer and choose "Tools" >"Manage add-ons".
2) Choose "Toolbars and Extensions", then find and remove related programs.
3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.
Google Chrome:
1) Open Google Chrome, click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" icon in top right corner.
2) Select "Settings" > "Extensions", then find and delete add-ons.
3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.
Mozilla Firefox:
1) Start Firefox and choose "Tools" > "Add-ons"> "Extensions".
2) Search for related items and remove them.
3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.
Step 3. Delete all the infection associated files
1) Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you're in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick "Show hidden files and folders" and non-tick "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" and then press "OK".
2) All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>
Step 4. Remove all the infection registry entries
Hit Win+R keys, type "regedit" in Run box, and then click "OK" to open Registry Editor
Delete them all:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet
ExplorerMain “Default_Page_URL”
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[adware
name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware
name]
Step 5. Restart your computer to take effect.
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Method B: Remove Gem Grab Automatically
Step 1. Remove Gem Grab with SpyHunter
SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware,etc.
3) When the installation is complete, click the "Finish" button.
Step 2. Optimize your PC using RegCure Pro
RegCure Pro is an advanced optimizer which
is able to solve your computer system problems, remove your privacy items
produced by online searches, delete junk files, uninstall malware and fix
performance problems.
(Please be at ease for RegCure Pro, since it will never bundle with any programs and it can get along with existing security programs without any conflicts.)
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.
In Conclusion:
The longer Gem Grab stays on your PC, the more troubles it will cause. There is no better way than to prevent or remove Gem Grab immediately to guarantee that your PC may not engage to endless pop-up ads and other unwanted programs.
Download SpyHunter to remove Gem Grab quickly.
Download RegCure Pro to fix slow PC performance easily.
Note: The free version of SpyHunter/ RegCure Pro is only for detection. To remove the malicious threats/ junk files on your PC, you will need to purchase the removal tool.
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