StartNow Description
StartNow is not a virus but an annoying adware, which is an advertisement platform created to displays ads, banners, coupons to make money. It attacks most popular browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.This nasty and mangy adware is most probably packed with free software. You may have upgraded your browser or downloaded and installed some free software with default installation. Here is the advice: always choose customize installation over default installation so that you can cancel some unwanted and malicious bundled program.Once infected, you must be pissed off. Every other website you go to is planted with StartNow ads. Whenever or whichever website you open, ads bomb you a lot. You may have gone to browser extension to check and then you thought you have removed them, however, it comes back every time you open and close your browser. You even did some registry thing, but nothing worked. Then you come to your antivirus program. You have upgraded it and done a few scannings, still, it didn’t work a bit.
Things you don’t know about StartNow:
1) The computer has been compromised by StartNow, therefore other sorts of malicious files have a better chance to sneak into your computer.2) Browser hijacker happens to the infected computer. Victims are always redirected to some unsafe and spam websites.
3) You browsing history may be logged.
4) The computer may be monitored by cyber criminals. And your private information would be leaked.
5) Computer can be largely decelerated, since StartNow eats up system resource. And the result is that your computer takes a much longer time to download a page or to run a program.
StartNow is a big threat to your computer, you are highly suggested remove it as soon as you can. The following is the manual removal solution for StartNow.
Efficient Removal Solution Details
Solution 1: Remove STARTNOW Manually
A: Go to Control Panel and delete StartNow from Add & Remove program
1. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
2. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
3. Click on Program
4. Click Add & Remove Program
5. Find StartNow list and select Remove
6. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.
B: Show all hidden files
1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
3. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
4. When the control panel opens click on the Appearance and Personalization link.
5. Under the Folder Options category, click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.
6. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.
C: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL combination to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the “Processes” tab, search StartNow then right-click it and select “End Process” key.
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D: Click “Start” button and selecting “Run.” Type “regedit” into the box and click “OK” to delete all StartNow registries
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “”
E: Remove all StartNow associated files
If you think the manual removal is a little complicated for you, you can be a lazy guy with the help of the most POWERFUL antivirus program Spyhunter. To be a lazy guy and watch STARTNOW being removed AUTOMATICALLY.
1. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
2. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
3. Click on Program
4. Click Add & Remove Program
5. Find StartNow list and select Remove
6. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.
B: Show all hidden files
1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
3. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
4. When the control panel opens click on the Appearance and Personalization link.
5. Under the Folder Options category, click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.
6. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.
C: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL combination to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the “Processes” tab, search StartNow then right-click it and select “End Process” key.
D: Click “Start” button and selecting “Run.” Type “regedit” into the box and click “OK” to delete all StartNow registries
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “”
E: Remove all StartNow associated files
%AllUsersProfile%\~
%AllUsersProfile%\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\
%AllUsersProfile%\.exe
F： Restart your computer to check if the virus in completely removed.%AllUsersProfile%\
%AllUsersProfile%\
%AllUsersProfile%\
Solution 2: Remove STARTNOW automatically (with SpyHunter)
Step A. Download removal tool SpyHunter
1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.
2) Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter
Step B. Run SpyHunter to block STARTNOW
Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.
Step C. Restart your computer to take effect.