Remove LolliScan

LolliScan Additional Offers is and adware, which means it’s an advertising software showing customized ads in each computer where it may be installed. This kind of software can quickly become a good source of income, specially if thousands of users get infected with it; this is why they normally hide their installation among those of free software.

It’s common for users to click away without really noticing what they’re doing when installing a new software, going from “next” to “next” as quickly as possible. Adwares trust this is exactly what will happen, to achieve dozens of installs quickly enough. For the user however is not such a happy notion, and it quickly becomes torture, even more so when trying to remove it, because this kind of adwares are developed in a way that makes this task almost impossible. Here’s an example of LolliScan being discretely installed:

lolliscan

In this particular case besides installing LolliScan you would also be installing, Shopperz, My Best Offers Today, and VuuPC.

If you do a quick web search you might find a lot of blogs explaining how to remove LolliScan, however they also ask you to pay for some software to do it, don’t trust too much in those solutions. There are free ways to remove LolliScan, and we show you how here:

For your information please know that LolliScan is considered as a parasite by 19 anti-viruses.
File information
File name:
LolliScan.exe

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\Lolliscan\LolliScan.exe

Analysis date:
5 March 2015

Scanner detections:
19 / 54

Scan engine
Detection
BitDefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.175923
Symantec
Trojan.Gen.2
Avira
TR/Graftor.518144.1
MicroWorld-eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.175923
ALYac
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.175923
Norman
Suspicious_Gen4.HZLDQ
TrendMicro-HouseCall
TROJ_GEN.R000C0EBS15
Avast
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.175923
F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor
VIPRE
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
TrendMicro
TROJ_GEN.R000C0EBS15
McAfee-GW-Edition
BehavesLike.Win32.BadFile.hh
Emsisoft
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.175923 (B)
Antiy-AVL
Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
GData
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.175923
McAfee
Artemis!344778A155AE
AVware
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Ikarus
Win32.SuspectCrc

Show the other 15 anti-virus detections


How to remove LolliScan ?

This is a detailed manual to eliminate LolliScan from your system. Please perform all the procedures in the correct order. All the software offered in this removal guide is free and known to clean and optimize your computer.

Remove LolliScan with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a very useful tool developed to eliminate undesired toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no installation and can be ran in a instantaneous to scan your system.

  • Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
    Download AdwCleaner
  • Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
  • Click on the Scan button.
  • After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
  • Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.

Remove LolliScan with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like LolliScan.

Remove LolliScan with malwarebytes anti-malware

  • Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
    Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
  • Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for LolliScan.
  • When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
  • Reboot your computer if prompted.

Remove LolliScan with HitmanPro

HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner, designed to rescue your computer from malware. HitmanPro is designed to work alongside existing security programs without any conflicts. HitmanPro offers you a Free Scan for a second opinion.

Remove LolliScan with HitmanPro

  • You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
    Download HitmanPro
  • Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
  • Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
  • HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for LolliScan malicious files.
  • When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove LolliScan virus.
Your machine should now be free of LolliScan. If you are still experiencing problems while trying to remove LolliScan from your machine, please start a new thread in our support page. Someone will give you free assistance very fast !
Click here to go to our support page.

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