Remove Ads by Gem Grab from Chrome/ IE/ Firefox Easily

When you notice that lots of ads by Gem Grab pop up in your browser pages, it only means that your PC is attacked by adware. If you are looking for an effective solution, please read more details here.

What is Gem Grab?

Gem Grab is a free program that claims to enhance your browsing experience. As a matter of fact, it is an ad-supported program which is capable of generating numerous commercial ads in your most used web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Gem Grab can be downloaded from its official site, but it often invades a computer in hidden form without users' permission. When installed, it plants a great deal of commercial ads flooding in your browser whether you want the ads or not. These ads by Gem Grab entice you to click on and may result in malicious infections. Besides, it may consume all resources making the system performance and internet connection extremely slow.

Even though Gem Grab is not a malware and doesn't damage the system directly, it creates lots of situations that increase your chances of getting infected and in general disturbs your work quite badly. If you want to get rid of Gem Grab but don't know how, follow the removal guide here.

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How to remove Gem Grab easily and completely?

Method A: Remove Gem Grab Manually

Step 1. Uninstall Gem Grab in Control Panel. 

Click Start button> Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find suspicious program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program.

Step 2. Remove Gem Grab extension or add-ons from your browsers

Internet Explorer:
1) Start Internet Explorer and choose "Tools" >"Manage add-ons".
2) Choose "Toolbars and Extensions", then find and remove related programs.
3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.

Google Chrome:
1) Open Google Chrome, click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" icon in top right corner.
2) Select "Settings" > "Extensions", then find and delete add-ons.
3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.

Mozilla Firefox:
1) Start Firefox and choose "Tools" > "Add-ons"> "Extensions".
2) Search for related items and remove them.
3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.

Step 3. Delete all the infection associated files

1) Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you're in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick "Show hidden files and folders" and non-tick "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" and then press "OK".

2) All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 4. Remove all the infection registry entries

Hit Win+R keys, type "regedit" in Run box, and then click "OK" to open Registry Editor

Delete them all： 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain “Default_Page_URL”

HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[adware name]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]

Step 5. Restart your computer to take effect. 

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Method B: Remove Gem Grab Automatically

Step 1. Remove Gem Grab with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware,etc.

1) Click the below button to download SpyHunter.

2) Double click on its file and then click the "Run" button to enter the installation procedure.

3) When the installation is complete, click the "Finish" button.

4) Open SpyHunter and click "Scan Computer Now!" to start scan your computer.

5) When the SpyHunter scan is completed, you can see that it detects all the threats in your PC. Then click "Fix Threats" button to make your computer clean.



Step 2. Optimize your PC using RegCure Pro

RegCure Pro is an advanced optimizer which is able to solve your computer system problems, remove your privacy items produced by online searches, delete junk files, uninstall malware and fix performance problems.

(Please be at ease for RegCure Pro, since it will never bundle with any programs and it can get along with existing security programs without any conflicts.)

1) Click the below button to download RegCure Pro.

2) Double click on its application and click the "Yes" button to install the program step by step.

3) After the installation is complete, open the program and scan your system for unnecessary files and invalid registry entries. That will take some time for the first scanning. Please wait while the program scans your system for performance problems.

4) When the System Scan is done, click "Fix All" button to correct all the security risks and potential causes of your computer slow performance.

In Conclusion:

The longer Gem Grab stays on your PC, the more troubles it will cause. There is no better way than to prevent or remove Gem Grab immediately to guarantee that your PC may not engage to endless pop-up ads and other unwanted programs.

Download SpyHunter to remove Gem Grab quickly.

Download RegCure Pro to fix slow PC performance easily.

Note: The free version of SpyHunter/ RegCure Pro is only for detection. To remove the malicious threats/ junk files on your PC, you will need to purchase the removal tool.