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Monday, March 9, 2015

Fixed! - How to Remove Useful Programs Easily?


About Useful Programs, something has to be said.


We've been reported with this annoying Useful Programs case. To tell you the truth, Useful Programs claims useful but it doesn't act as its name appears. Once it get attached onto your browser, you will be inundated with pop-ups by Useful Programs, which can't be closed. Once victim says that he couldn't find anything called Useful Programs in the control panel where they can be installed. You will be sorry for next story from this victim. He was also spammed by tivoli search and pckeeper. Though he was able to remove them but Useful Programs still remains in  his computer, launching stubborn ads when browser is active.

The professional description of Useful Programs.


Useful Programs is referred to an advertisement computer program, aiming at gaining profit via advertising sponsored products. As it's advertising function, you are forced to install it in the background during the process of your desirable freeware or shareware installation from the Internet, even without your awareness. Once it gets self-installed, it would be pretty difficult to unload it. In the background, it performs activities like collecting user privacy, launching up ads, consuming system resources, making the computer work slowly, ect.

These nuisances from Useful Programs would make you upset at least.


  • pop-up nuisance: as an active adware, there is no way that Useful Programs wouldn't inject ads to gain traffic for the sponsored on your browser. I swear that the Useful Programs victims must be helpless and insane with the unstoppable ads.
  • redirect nuisance: when you locate your mouse on the ads of Useful Programs and try to shut down, you may be redirected to advertising webpages.
  • trouble-never-come-alone nuisance: after the showing-up of Useful Programs, the system defense capability has been weaken. This terrible result leads to a consequence that other sorts of bugs like adware, browser hijacker and trojan could get on the poor computer easily.
  • privacy-stolen nuisance: we can tell whether Useful Programs is malicious or not. But if it is, your privacy information could be collected by hackers without difficulty. 
As we all know, getting rid of Useful Programs is the very necessary thing to do. You are kindly recommended to delete it at the very first time to avoid additional troubles.  



How to Remove Useful Programs Easily?


Option 1: Remove Useful Programs Manually from Your Computer


Before the removalyou need to go to end the running processes related to Useful Programs in the task manager: click Ctrl+Alt+Del together to get the task manager; search for the suspicious or unfamiliar processes to end. ( in case you will encounter the claiming that Useful Programs is running and you can't uninstall it.)



( considerate tip: manual removal requires expertise and consumes a lot of time. If you mean to make the Useful Programs removal simple and easy, you may consider downloading and installing the official version SpyHunter to get rid of Useful Programs. Just want to make sure you know you have a perfect choice.)


1. remove Useful Programs from the control panel

  • Click Start and then choose Control Panel.
  • Click Programs> Uninstall a program or Program and Features(for Windows 7,8, Vista)


  • search for the unwanted or unknown programs; right click it and then choose Uninstall.
2. Remove Useful Programs from the browsers.

2.1 Remove Useful Programs add-ons from Internet Explorer

  • Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “F10″ key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened
  • Click on Programs tab then click on Manage Add-ons, now you’ll get a window which have listed all the installed add-ons.
  • Now disable the Useful Programs add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from this list.


2.2 Reset Internet Explorer

  • Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
  • For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon  . Then click on tools.
  • Click on Advanced tab then click on RESET button.
  • Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that.
  • Now your Internet Explorer has been Restored to default settings.
  • Now you will appear a popup stated “complete all the tasks”. After completion click on close button.


2.3 Remove Useful Programs unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

  • Start Google Chrome, click on options icon  (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions
  • You will get a configuration page which have listed all the installed extensions, remove Useful Programs extension. Also remove all the unknown / unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon  (as shown on screenshot)

2.4: Reset Google Chrome – Restore to default setting.

  • Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon  and then click on settings 
  • Scroll down and click on “Show advanced settings…”option, after click on that you’ll appear some more options in bottom of the page. Now scroll down more and click on “Reset Browser setting” option.
  • Now, Close all Google Chrome browser’s window and reopen it again.


2.5 Remove Useful Programs add-ons from Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox and then go the Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar) click on Add-ons, you’ll get a page click on extensions from the left side pane. now look on right side pane you’ll get all the installed add-ons listed on there. Disable or Remove Useful Programs add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from there. 
2.6 Reset Mozilla Firefox
  • Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar)
  • Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information
  • You will get a page “Troubleshooting information” page, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
  • Click on Reset Firefox option and then follow their instructions to reset firefox.
  • Mozilla Firefox should be Restored.


3. To Remove Useful Programs from Startup

  • Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a msconfig window.

  • In the msconfig window click on Startup tab, here you’ll get all the startup entries, so look on the list and then do Un-check the entries which is contains Useful Programs. Also Un-check all the others entries which you found unwanted. then click on OK to apply all the changes


Option 2: in case you don't know how to remove Useful Programs manually, you are offered an automatic one.



  • There are 2 selections offered: click Save or Run to install the program. We recommend you to save it on the desktop if you choose Save for the reason that you can immediately start the free scan by using the desktop icon.
  • After downloading, double click the downloaded file and follow the prompts to install the removal tool.

2. Installing the professional tool to remove Useful Programs completely, start with clicking Run to give your permission.


Click Continue to get the Install option


Choose I accept the EULA and Privacy Policy and then click INSTALL.


A good gain consumes time. Please wait for the files downloading... 


Take the chance to remove Useful Programs. Click Start New Scan/ Scan Computer at once!


Standby and let it scan your PC. You can take a break for yourself since it will take a while.


You are close to get Useful Programs out of your PC permanently. Click Fix Threats.


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( Kris )

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