How do I Get Rid of PUP.Optional.Conduit.A / Conduit Search Completely

You have been running in circles with PUP.Optional.Conduit.A / Conduit Search?

You have discovered your system became infected with the PUP.Optional.Conduit.A? You find Conduit Search toolbar and Conduit Safe Search is affecting your browsers? You'd performed a number of steps to try to eradicate PUP.Optional.Conduit.A? Even though you have run and re-run AntiMalwareBytes or other security tools, but this infection keeps coming back? You feel very annoying and tired?  At the same time, you can read more about the following post which tell you how to remove PUP.Optional.Conduit.A or Conduit Search completely.

PUP.Optional.Conduit.A is indentified as a hazardous PUP adware that can give great hit on the target machines. It is a very annoying application that may be able to do a lot of activities on the installed computers. the most obvious features of this adware is trying to alter system configurations, DNS settings, registry settings, web browser settings and others to manipulate PC to the fullest and instantiate automatically whenever PC starts. So many attackers may discover their system have been taken controlled by Conduit Search, Conduit Search toolbar. As long as they open their browsers, http://search.conduit.com/ and Conduit SafeSearch will effect with their default web browsers.

PUP.Optional.Conduit.A this potentially unwanted program can be detected by Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as well as other antivirus programs, but once it has been deleted, another time you start your computer, PUP.Optional.Conduit.A keeps coming back. Even though you re-run the Anti-Malware again, this infection makes you run into a circles. This malware can install other applications onto your system and help remote hackers to track down your confidential data like bank account details, credit card information, passwords etc. and steal them to fulfill their monetary needs by selling them to any third party or so.

 

Multiply suspicious behaviors by PUP.Optional.Conduit.A / Conduit Search

1.       PUP.Optional.Conduit.A also is reported as a potentially unwanted program which can attack the system seriously.

2.       This is a specific infection which can be detected by Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as well as other antivirus programs.

3.       It is a very nasty infection that keeps coming back.

4.       It can install other applications or other threats onto the infected system.

5.       It can make changes of the web browser settings and change the homepage and search into http://search.conduit.com/ and Conduit SafeSearch.

6.       This malware helps remote hackers to track down your confidential data like bank account details, credit card information, passwords etc.

How do I remove PUP.Optional.Conduit.A / Conduit Search?

Step 1, to stop all PUP.Optional.Conduit.A related processes, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the “Processes” tab, search PUP.Optional.Conduit.A then right-click it and select “End Process” key.

Step 2, Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer:

1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;

2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;

3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;

4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.

Google Chrome

1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;

2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;

3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;

4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;

5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.   

Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;

2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;

3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;

Step 3, Go to Control Panel and delete search.conduit.com from Add & Remove program.

1. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.

2. Click on the Control Panel menu option.

3. Click on Program

4. Click Add & Remove Program

5. Find search.conduit.com list and select Remove

6. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.

Step 4, Disable proxy

1. Click on Tools on the menu bar

2. Select Internet options

3. Go to Connections tab

4. Select LAN settings at the bottom of the dialog

5. Under the Proxy sever, untick 'use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).'

6. Click OK

Step 5, clear up all browsing history and remove all temp files.

 How to Remove PUP.Optional.Conduit.A with Removal - SpyHunter

1. Click here to download Spyhunter.

2. Follow the installation of the Spyhunter guide to finish the installation.

3. Start a scan on your computer.

4. Remove all related infections.

In a word: PUP.Optional.Conduit.A is a very annoying adware that sneaks into the target computer without user’s consent. This program will show up a bunch of pop-up ads on the webpage which you are browsing. If you have discovered PUP.Optional.Conduit.A installed on your system, you should try to uninstall it from your infected browser before it does terrible things.