How Do You Get PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo Virus?

PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo is not only a Potentially Unwanted Program but also a Trojan horse virus which endangers the target computers terribly once it is downloaded. Malicious web sites, illegal software downloads and unsecured file-sharing networks are the main distribution channel for this Trojan. Being as a Trojan virus, it is capable of allowing a remote attacker to access the infected computer and gain control of it. It can even access the computer directly by taking advantage of weakness in Internet browser and security. Once downloaded, it changes all your settings on the computer, including system or browser settings, thus, your computer will act weirdly. You may receive a lot of pop-ups and advertisements while you are searching information on internet. And your browser keeps redirecting to other pages that you don’t want at all. More than that, this virus creates numerous junk files into the legitimate folder without users’ awareness so that it is hard for antivirus to detect all its contents.

In order to run itself on every start-up of Windows, PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo will add some malicious entries to corrupt your registry. It can conceal its presence of the compromised computer by showing only legitimate process running on the system. Even if Avast can detect this virus but it won’t help to get rid of it completely. When the virus runs itself in the background, it can collect user’s online account, password information or even system information and finally send them to a predefined remote IP address. Under such circumstance, your security and privacy will be compromised without your knowledge. And you may get system crash and computer freeze problems occur randomly.
To avoid further damages, it is suggested users to get rid of PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo Virus as soon as it is found.

How Do You Get PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo Virus?

From malicious drive-by-download scripts from corrupted porn and shareware / freeware websites.
Through spam email attachments, media downloads and social networks.
When clicking suspicious pop-ups or malicious links.
Open unknown email or download media files that contain the activation code of the virus.

Note: No matter how does the virus access your PC, users should know that there are no tools can remove this pesky Trojan automatically at this moment, it is suggested users not spend much time in downloading or paying any security software which claims can delete this stubborn virus. It is totally useless. To completely get rid of PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo virus, professional manual guide is needed.

About PUP.Optional.WebSearchInfo Virus Removal:

This is a tricky virus and it is able to disable antivirus programs so that it cannot even be detected or removed by antivirus programs, you need to manually remove it out of the computer. And in case that any mistake might occur and cause unpredictable damages, please spend some time in making a backup beforehand. Then follow these steps given as below: