Easily Get Rid of Generic PUP.y Permanently - Step by Step Guide to Remove Generic PUP.y

Computer issues aroused by Generic PUP.y:

If you are getting message about Generic PUP.y when you operate your PC, your PC must be entangled with potential unwanted programs.After the presence of Generic PUP.y, a lot of computer issues may come out to interrupt people. The most obvious one is the running speed.Generic PUP.y runs in the background to eat up quite a lot of computer resources and CPU memories. Computer users have to spend a long time in running some useful software and waiting web pages loading. Sometimes, windows freeze when computer users are watching online videos. Moreover, Generic PUP.y also arouses system vulnerabilities by chiseling up back doors and loopholes in the background.

Many computer users have no idea how Generic PUP.y gets into their PC as they operate their PCs as usual. Generic PUP.y is so tricky that can use spam email attachments, malicious links, and freeware installation package to get into the target PC sneakily. To avoid being entangle with Generic PUP.y, you'd not open email from unknown people and choose customer installation when you install freeware, also you should keep you antivirus software up to date and scan your PC regularly.

Two methods to get rid of Generic PUP.y- Manual removal guide and Automatic scan

Method one: manually get rid of Generic PUP.y

Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the Processes tab, and search for Generic PUP.y process, then click End Process key. 

Step 2: Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about Generic PUP.y

Click the Start button choose Control Panel, find out Appearance and Personalization, and then click Folder Options and choose the View tab. Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

Clean all the malicious files about Generic PUP.y as below:

%AppData%\<random>.exe

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe

C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe

%temp%\<random>.exe

Step 3: Press Window+R keys together. In the dialogue box that pop-up, type into Regedit and press OK. Find out the malicious registry entries of Generic PUP.y in Registry Editor and delete all of them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

Video on how to remove Generic PUP.y:

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 one: Automatically remove Generic PUP.y 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 OffersWizard

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of Generic PUP.y, 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 Generic PUP.y and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove Generic PUP.y automatically for you.