Remove Awardhotspot.com-Stop Awardhotspot.com Pop up

Description on Awardhotspot.com:

Awardhotspot.com is one of the notorious computer infections which belongs to the adware family. Once invades into the target PC, Awardhotspot.com will undertakes the malicious tasks as below:

Awardhotspot.com adware will produce advertisements on the screen to block computer users to access to other application on the infected PC. Also, these ads pop up as soon as people open the browsers on the PC which definitely influence computer users to enjoy a wonderful online experience.

In order to spread and blossom quickly, Awardhotspot.com adware will alter some settings on the target PC without users’ permission. for instances, Awardhotspot.com virus may change the contents on the startup menu, as a result, it can get start automatically to carry out its malicious traits when people boot the infected PC.
Awardhotspot.com adware also change the browser settings on the target PC, like modifying the homepage and default search engines.

Besides the above vicious tasks, another harmful trait of Awardhotspot.com adware is its keylogger function. To help its creators or sponsors to promote the products, Awardhotspot.com keeps track of the browser history and collect search terms in the infected PC. And then send this information to the cyber crooks to analyze users’ demands. After that, they create the ads pop up to attract users’ attention. Therefore, if you find that those ads from Awardhotspot.com are so match to your interests, you should be careful and pay more attention to the confindential information in the infected PC.

Method one: Awardhotspot.com adware manual removal guide

Step 1: Launch your PC into Safe Mode with Networking.
 Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap "F8" key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then press ENTER.

Step2: Stop all processes that related to Awardhotspot.com
Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.

Terminate all the processes about Awardhotspot.com in the Window Task Manager.

Step3: show hidden files and folders and delete all the suspicious files.
Concrete steps
1).click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

2).in the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

3).delete all the files about Awardhotspot.com from computer drive

%AppData%\\.exe
%StartMenu%\Programs\ Awardhotspot.com \
%StartMenu%\Programs\ Awardhotspot.com support.url
%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
%Desktopdir%\Awardhotspot.com.lnk
%Programs%\Awardhotspot.com\Awardhotspot.com.lnk


Step 4: Delete malicious registry entries of Awardhotspot.com
Concrete steps
open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Awardhotspot.com\DisplayIcon %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe,0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Awardhotspot.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Awardhotspot.com\UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Awardhotspot.com\ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Awardhotspot.com\DisplayName Awardhotspot.com

Video on how to remove Awardhotspot.com adware:

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove Awardhotspot.com with Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and uninstall Awardhotspot.com

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of Awardhotspot.com, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing Awardhotspot.com and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove Awardhotspot.com automatically for you.