Description of HD Quality:
HD Quality is reported as a piece of adware which interferes with users’ online activities. Your browser will suffer countless pop-up ads windows while going online after being infected. It will finish its installation without your notice together with the program or process that you have downloaded it from the unsafe sites.
Being an advertising stage, HD Quality seems to be harmless, but it is designed to serve advertisement to PC users by the third party programs. If unfortunately infected, the computer is probably full of various popups and unknown connections. Complex adware as HD Quality will do plenty of things to filch information from victims’ browser activities so as to make profits. If you see any service or product advertised by the adware, please do not click on them or use them.
How Does the Adware Enter Your PC?
Sometimes you may have this adware installed on the computer when you download and install a piece of freeware that is bundled with HD Quality, Language Learning, ClickDownload, DealFinder, Yontoo or FBPhotoZoom, etc. Any of those additional programs can bring about the annoying pop-up ads. Most of the time, you may just click Next, click Next, and click Next when installing an application, which allows the adware or other optional programs to get installed on your computer as well. It should be known that free applications available on the Internet are not 100% clean, and most of them have adware bundled. Once It is installed to the computer, all the browsers can be infected including IE, FF, or Chrome which makes it hard to be removed.
How to Remove HD Quality Completely?
HD Quality adware may pose a threat to your computer security and privacy security, so we highly recommend removing it from your machine promptly. In the following is the manual removal guide. Guides below will help you prevent from this threat and any other malicious programs.
Step 1: Remove the HD Quality adware related programs.
1. Click Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Click on Uninstall a program under the Programs category.
3. In the programs list find out any suspicious programs, and then click on the Uninstall.
4. Follow the wizard to accomplish the removal.
Step 2: Remove all unwanted extensions from the browsers.
Internet Explorer
1. Start the Internet Explorer, click on Tools, and select Manage Add-ons in the drop-down list.
2. Click on Toolbars and Extensions, find out and disable the add-ons related to HD Quality adware.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Run the Mozilla Firefox, click on Tools and choose Add-ons.
2. Click on Extensions, then select the unwanted add-ons in the list and click on Remove\Disable button.
3. Click Plugins, and remove\disable any unknown add-ons.
Google Chrome
1. Launch Google Chrome and click on the menu icon.
2. Click the Tools in the list then select Extensions.
3. Click on Extensions, then find out the HD Quality adware related add-ons and delete them.
Step 3: Remove all malicious files and registry entries.
1. In the local disk C, local the following folders:
%Temp%\
%Program Files%\
%UserProfile%\Desktop\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\
%Document and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\
2. In the above folders, find out and remove any malicious files.
3. Open the registry editor by following the steps: click Start menu, type “regedit” into the search box, and click “regedit.exe” from the results list.
4. In the registry editor, find out and delete any malicious registry entries from your PC.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe
HD Quality is a high-risk adware infection that can cause many problems on the infected computer. Accordingly, once your computer fails to stop it from infecting, use guides mentioned above to keep away from it without any delay. Moreover, do not forget to level up your computer defense to prevent infections.
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