How to Remove Sponsorship - Manual Removal Guide

Sponsorship Description 

Are you annoyed by Sponsorship? Sponsorship is a malware program which will annoy computer users with plenty of advertisements pop-ups. Once infected, Sponsorship will drop its own malicious files into your computer. Each time you open your browser, Sponsorship launches automatically. It pops up unwanted advertisements to you, and will not stop. Sponsorship will also take up your CPU usage and degrades your computer performance, slow down the running speed. You will get blue screen occasionally, and sometimes it will shut down and restart itself. What is more, Sponsorship will monitor your online activities and collect your private information such as bank account, codes, card number and so on. Sponsorship penetrates into your computer through many ways. It bundled with other programs. So when you down load or update free programs from the Internet, Sponsorship is installed. Sponsorship can also attach to the spam email attachments. If your computer is infected by Sponsorship, you are suggested to remove it as soon as possible.

Problems Caused by Sponsorship 

1. Sponsorship injects into the computer without your consent;

2. Sponsorship displays you plenty of advertisements;

3. Sponsorship causes blue screen, computer shut down and restart, and many other problems;

4. Sponsorship can monitor your online activities and collect your private information.

 Manual Steps to Remove Sponsorship 

Sponsorship is a new virus that is detected recently, and no anti-virus has been designed to remove this virus. If your computer is infected with Sponsorship, manual remove is the most effective way to get rid of it.

Step 1: Reset your IE. Open Internet Explorer. Click on the Tools menu and then select Internet Options. In the Internet Options window click on the Advanced tab. Then click on the Reset, check Delete personal settings. Then click Reset.

Step 2: Stop the process of Sponsorship from Task Manager. Open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc, choose Processes tab. Right-click the process of Sponsorship and end it.

Step 3: Search and delete the files related to Sponsorship.

%program files% Sponsorship
%documents and settings%\all users\Application Data\ Sponsorship
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\\[random string]tssd.exe

Step 4: Remove the registry entries of Sponsorship from the Registry Editor.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]“
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]“
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = “no”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = “1″

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