I wrote this article to help you remove ScreenUp Virus. This ScreenUp Virus removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Are you flooded with countless advertisements, sponsored by ScreenUp? If you are, we have bad news for you. You are currently hosting a nasty adware application and this is far from good. Adware parasites are extremely annoying but they are also dangerous. Because of ScreenUp, you are bombarded with commercials on daily basis. Your whole screen is covered with them. And, there are so many ads that you are no able to surf the web normally like you used to.

Banners, coupons, deals, offers, in-texts, pop-ups, pop-unders, etc. and etc. You probably noticed that all of the commercials don’t appear to be randomly selected. On the contrary. They all have something to do with your interests, likes, and hobbies. How is that possible? Let us explain.

Adware programs are used to generate web traffic to particular pages so the crooks behind them could gain profits via the pay-per-click method. This means that ScreenUp`s purpose is to make you click on as many commercials as possible. It even blocks ads by its competitors to increase the chance of you clicking. But how does it know what you like? It spies on you. The adware knows you much better that you think. From the moment in enters, it starts monitoring your every online move. It knows your favorite websites. It knows what you have searched for. It knows what you bookmarked. It has access to everything and it uses this information to generate ads that you will find appealing. This way you will be at least tempted to click. Pretty sneaky, isn’t it?

Then, with each one of your clicks, hackers make money at your expense. If you don’t want to be crooks` sponsor, you have to take measures now. The longer the adware stays, the more ads you are going to see. As a result, your machine will start underperforming as well. After all, ScreenUp is running on your CPU and uses RAM. Your machine will get slower and slower with every single day. Don’t hesitate and don’t wait until your predicament worsens. Find where the adware is hiding and delete it immediately.

Aside from ruining your browser experience and making you a sponsor of hackers, ScreenUp also exposes you to malware and security risk. Most of these ads you are bombarded with are not safe. In fact, a single click on the wrong ad and you automatically download more malware on your computer. There is no way of telling the safe ads apart from the corrupted ads. Not unless you click but then it may be too late.

Also, as we said, ScreenUp is spying on you and collects information. However, the data it gathers is not related only to your likes and preferences. The pest has access to your IPs, emails addresses, usernames, and passwords. It may even get its hand to your personally identifiable and financial credentials. Imagine what could happen if this sensitive data ends up in hackers` hands. You could become victim to a financial fraud or even identity theft. Don’t hesitate. Use our removal guide at the end of this article and delete ScreenUp from your machine once and for all.

Once you do, make sure to better protect your PC in the future. Adware pieces, as well as other infections, rely on trickery and deceit to enter victims` systems. They turn to the old but golf means of infiltration like freeware bundles, spam emails, compromised links/pages/torrents, bogus program updates, malicious third-party ads, etc. However, what all pests pray for the most is victims` haste, distraction, and carelessness. Without them, none of the above-mentioned tactics would work.

Infections are programs which need users` permission to enter. Of course, if they ask straightforwardly, they would never get it. That’s why they use these tricks. They rely on your negligence to sneak in. Don’t grant it. Be more careful. It is much easier to prevent an intruder from entering that to deal with it later on.

ScreenUp Virus Uninstall

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must perform to remove the hijacker from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove ScreenUp Virus from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.