Friends,
I want to share my experience with the adware “Context
Menu Platinum Unregistered version”.
Last week, I tried to open my Epson printer scan
program. I right clicked on the icon and selected “Run as administrator”. There
immediately appeared a box (image below). It has a countdown. Till it comes down
to 0, I couldn’t close it. It just stays on the screen.
It says to register now, when I clicked on it, it took
me to a website, which is not existing.
So apparently it was a virus, infecting my system.
I did the following to get rid of it.
1. Searched
for it in the programs and features, in an attempt to uninstall. But couldn’t
find any related item.
2. Deleted
all my temporary files.
3. Restrarted
the computer.
4. Did
a full scan with windows defender.
The problem persisted.
Then I searched google for any
related information. I learnt that the following programs are associated with the
malware. File Minimizer, EmlOpenView 2.3, and MovieSubtitleSearcher.
I didn’t have any of the above.
I then tried the following:
5. Run
Adwcleaner.
6. Run
Zemana antimalware
7. Run
Revo uninstaller.
8. Run
Special uninstaller.
All the above didn’t solve the problem.
At this point I decided to restore my laptop to a last
best working time. I restored my system to a date one month back. I expected that
the malware would have disappeared. But to my disappointment it still persisted.
Then I tried this software. “Adware Removal Tool by
TSA”
I ran the tool. It scanned the system and cleaned the
system. Out of many files it removed, the following, belonged to my criminal.
PUP.Search Manager ->> Folder ->>
C:\Users\ADMIN\Appdata\Local\chromium\User
Data\Default\Extensions\pilplloabdedfmialnfchjomjmpjcoej
Adware.Chromium ->> Folder ->>
C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Local\chromium.
After the scan. I restarted the system. And Oila. The virus
has disappeared.
I can’t guarantee that the same would work for
everyone with the above problem. I advise you to first do a full scan with your
antivirus, then uninstall the three programs mentioned earlier, if you have downloaded
any recently. Also uninstall any suspicious program installed recently.
Then you can use the third party tools like the one I used.
For me it worked. I am not sure, if it will work for others. But no harm in trying.
I hope this article would help you in
dealing with this adware.
Please comment if it’s of use to any one.
PS. I have no financial interest in any of the
softwares described in this blog.
