What Is alert-sercurity.fail?
alert-sercurity.fail is an extremely cunning webpage for its easily infected and cheating the window users in a detestable way. On one side, the malware alert-sercurity.fail enters into the computers in various ways, for example infected email, freeware, torrent files, fake software links and porn websites.
On the other side , most window users trust it when they see it at the first sight because it show people its hypocritical surface: when the computer users surf the websites, the alert-sercurity.fail popups a warning about system errors, corrupted system files or detected virus, such as: “Warning: Your Personal Financial Information is Not Safe”, like “Warning! System May Have Detected Viruses on Your Computer”, or “Warning: Your Computer May Be Infected: System Detected 2 Potentially Malicious Viruses”. And then the cunning alert-sercurity.fail asks the users to call this phone number 1-866-489-1206 for help, or remind the users to install rogue antivirus. You should never try these way because if you do so, you may fall into the trap the alert-sercurity.fail set.
Fake messages displayed by alert-security.fail
The page at alert-security.fail says:
IF YOU ARE A Centurylink CUSTOMER
READ BEFORE CONTINUEING TO
It appears that your Windows 7 computer has popup ads ENABLED.
Please call TOLL FREE to DISABLE popup ads not at
1-866-489-1206.
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS:
Before you use, it is strongly advised that you call to disable popup ads. You can do so by calling 1-866-489-1206.
What traps you may fall into if you were infected by the adware alert-sercurity.fail?
Firstly and the mostly terribly, you may suffer from huge financial loss. Once the computer was infected, the remote hacker installs spyware on the users’ web browsers and gather users’ system data, and you may be cheated to purchase its tech services or products.
Secondly, the alert-sercurity.fail can bring more computer virus, pop-ups harmful links and lead you to install many unwanted and unknown freeware and Trojan, which will slow down your system or make your system crash.
Besides, the infection of alert-sercurity.fail can reveal you private information, for instance your email, phone number, credit card number and ID number etc.
Therefore you need to remove the adware alert-sercurity.fail immediately if it infects you computer to avoid further hazards, but it’s not possible for users to get rid of it with the normal ways like browser uninstallation. You can try the special way as follow as soon as possible.
Solutions to Remove alert-sercurity.fail
Solution 2: Manually Remove alert-sercurity.fail by exactly following the steps
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Solution 1: Automatically Remove alert-sercurity.fail with Spyhunter (Effective and Popular)
2. Choose "I accept the EULA and Privacy Policy" to continue the installation
3. It will take a while to prepare the files and finish the installation. You can walk away to have a drink.
4. When the installation is complete, please click "Scan Computer Now" to search for alert-sercurity.fail and other threats. And then click "Fix" to completely remove alert-sercurity.fail as well as other threats.
5. When the removal is complete, you need to reboot your PC to take effect.
Solution 2: Manually Remove alert-sercurity.fail by exactly following the steps
Remove alert-sercurity.fail from Google Chrome:- Start Chrome, click chrome menu icon →More Tools → Extensions.
- In Extensions, find alert-sercurity.fail and the unwanted extensions and select chrome-trash-icon to remove them.
3. Then select Settings. Scroll down the page and click Show advanced settings.
4. Find the Reset browser settings section and click Reset browser settings button.
(Reminder: please backup your personal Google data like account usernames, passwords and bookmarks before you choose to reset your browser, or you may lose the data.)
5. select Manage Search Engines. Remove alert-sercurity.fail and others but the search engine you like.
Remove alert-sercurity.fail from Firefox- Open Firefox, click on Mozilla menu (top right) → Add-ons.
- Search for alert-sercurity.fail extension and the unwanted ones to enable.
Remove alert-sercurity.fail from Internet Explorer
1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to Tools → Manage Add-ons → Search Providers
2. Right click alert-sercurity.fail → click Disable suggestions → close the window
Step 2. Remove alert-sercurity.fail& other unwanted programs from Control Panel
You are suggested to use Windows utility to remove the unwanted application alert-sercurity.fail. Commonly, additional PUPs will come along with it. Search for alert-sercurity.fail as well as other unknown programs to remove them from Control panel. The way of accessing Control Panel is different on different Windows operating systems. Follow the steps below:
Windows 8
- right click Start ( which is on the left corner of your PC) > open Quick Access Menue
- select Control Panel > click Control Panel > click Uninstall a Program
- search for alert-sercurity.fail and other suspicious programs > click Remove to get rid of them
Windows 7
- click Start > Control Panel> Program and Features
- scroll through the program list and select alert-sercurity.fail ( and other junkware) > click Remove
Windows XP
- click Start > Control Panel > search for and double click Add/Remove Programs
- scroll through the program list and highlight alert-sercurity.fail application and the unwanted ones > click Remove
NOTE:
You need to search for other suspicious programs and uninstall them to avoid alert-sercurity.fail re-installation. If you are not so familiar with it, you can ask help from Spyhunter to fix all the issues for you, including removing alert-sercurity.fail and other crapware, fixing system loopholes and speeding up your PC.
Step 3. Remove alert-sercurity.fail registry
Press Win+R keys together > input 'regedit' > click 'OK'
Search for the registries below to remove:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
http://www.alert-sercurity.fail/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Documents and Settings\test\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.alert-sercurity.fail/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
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Correctly finishing all the steps above can help you remove alert-sercurity.fail completely. If you don't have the patience and courage to remove it all by yourself, you can choose the convenient method - the professional alert-sercurity.fail removal tool SpyHunter to help you remove it safely and easily. In addition, you can user SpyHunter to optimize your PC after the removal.
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