How to Uninstall ADWARE/Bryte.Gen?

Is your computer infected with ADWARE/Bryte.Gen? Do you receive constant pop-up ads when using computer? If so, read on and follow the guide below to get rid of the annoying adware from your PC fully.

Description of ADWARE/Bryte.Gen
ADWARE/Bryte.Gen, as its name suggests, is an adware program which displays a lot of advertisements on the target computers. It often runs in the background and occupies plenty of your system resources. It also affects your web browser and spies on your browsing activity so as to display advertisements according to your interest. This threat is created by cyber criminals to display advertising and promote products. It is not suggested that you leave it on the computer if it is found.

This adware is also bundled with other applications and installed on the same machine silently. It modifies the registry entries and creates new files on the computer during installation. In this way, it is able to automatically run every time your computer starts up or you open specific programs such as IE or other browsers. It may download and install additional malicious toolbars or extensions on your browsers, further affecting your online activities. It can use cookies to track your browsing histories and know which websites you visit, how long you stay there, what you search for and what you have saved in browsers, etc. In this case, your private information, such as login accounts and passwords of many websites, ID number, phone number and even online banking details, may be stolen by evil attackers.

Since the adware is so dangerous, you should take effective measures immediately to delete ADWARE/Bryte.Gen before severe problems occur.

Note: If you want to quickly get rid of the annoying pop-up ads by this adware, you can use a professional malware removal tool – SpyHunter to remove it. It can quickly detect all components of the adware and erase them.

How does ADWARE/Bryte.Gen spread and how to prevent it?
In fact, the adware can be distributed via e-mail attachments, malicious or hacked Web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) as well as peer-to-peer networks. Evil hijackers may implant this malicious file into several executable files that appears beneficial or harmless. For example, when you download and install a game from the Internet, then lots of unwanted ads may appear on your PC when you play the game. It is very likely that the game has been bundled with the adware.

Therefore, to prevent being infected by such adware, please pay more attention when surfing the Internet, especially downloading and installing third party free applications. Don’t click on the links or files that sent by strangers when you chat online or check emails. It is also important to install an advanced antivirus program on the computer to protect your machine from various cyber attacks.

How to get rid of ADWARE/Bryte.Gen from your computer?
There are two ways for you to delete this adware from the computer completely – either using SpyHunter to automatically clear the threat or manually removing the components of the adware. If you don’t know much about computer and find it hard to delete the files and registry entries of the adware program on your own, please follow the guide below to quickly delete the threat.

Method1. Use SpyHunter to remove ADWARE/Bryte.Gen rapidly
SpyHunter is antispyware software published by Enigma Software. It can help remove stubborn spyware and malware from your computer completely with advanced techniques and quick updated virus database. If the regular security tools on your PC cannot delete the threat, please use SpHunter to deal with it.

Step1. Download SpyHunter on your PC.
Step2: Save the file to a proper location on the computer.
Step3: Run the file to install it.
Step4. When the file is installed successfully, click Finish button.
Step5. Click Scan computer now to scan your computer.
Step6. Click Remove to delete all the threats found.

Method2. Manually remove ADWARE/Bryte.Gen
Step1: Remove the adware from Control Panel.

Windows 7/Vista: You can click Start, go to Control Panel, click Uninstall a Program under Programs. Highlight the adware program and uninstall it.

Windows XP: Click Start, go to Control Panel and click on Add/Remove Programs. Select the target program and click Remove button.

Windows 8: Move the cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Charms bar and click Settings, go to Control Panel and click Uninstall a program. Remove the unwanted program and other unknown programs from your computer.

Step2. Delete the unnecessary add-ons from web browsers.

Internet Explorer

Open IE, click Tools and click Manager Add-ons. Choose the malicious add-ons and disable them.

Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox, click on Tools and click on Add-on Manager. Select the add-ons strange to you and click Remove to get rid of them.

Google Chrome

Open Chrome, click 3-bars and click Tools. Click “Extensions” and choose the unwanted extensions and click the trash box ext to it to remove it.

Step3. Remove malicious files of ADWARE/Bryte.Gen.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab, and then you should select “Show hidden files and folders” in the list. If you are trying to get into the Windows directories, you might want to also remove the checkbox from “Hide protected operating system files” as well.

Search for the following file and have it eliminated.

%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\[random numbers and letters].dll

%APPDATA%\MicroLab\MyEngin\Common\Uninstall\uninstall.dat

%TEMP%\[messy code]temp_0\[random letters]setup.exe

%APPDATA%\MicroLab\MyEngin\Common\DeleteSetup.exe

%APPDATA%\MicroLab\MyEngin\Common\Uninstall\uninstall.xml

%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\msinet.oc

Step4. Delete the registry entries created by the adware.

To open Windows registry, click Start, go to Run, type regedit in the box and click OK.
regedit
In the Windows Registry, locate to the following registry entries created by the threat and delete them.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{random numbers}\IMPLEMENTED CATEGORIES\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{random numbers}\INPROCSERVER32\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\INTERFACE\{random numbers}\PROXYSTUBCLSID\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\TYPELIB\{random numbers}\1.0\0\WIN32\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\TYPELIB\{random numbers}\1.0\FLAGS\

Suggestion:

As what has mentioned above clearly that ADWARE/Bryte.Gen is an adware application that displays unwanted ads and interferes with your browsing activities. Moreover, it may allow other cyber threat from the Internet and steal your confidential information. You have to remove it from the computer as quickly as you can.

You can choose one of the ways mentioned in this post to get rid of ADWARE/Bryte.Gen. If you want to stop the threat from reoccurring again, we highly recommend you to download and install SpyHunter on the PC to safeguard your computer against the cyber infection.