The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "AdRoarPlugin" manually.
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Threat Details:

Categories:
  • spyware

Description:
AdRoarPlugin connects to the internet without user consent showing popup windows.
Supposed Functionality:
Avatar Resources, owned by QTech, Ltd., an Anguilla corporation, is a marketing implementation provider and partner. It provides targeted rich-media advertising to website publishers.
Privacy Statement:
Our Commitment to Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. In order to insure your privacy we are providing this notice to explain our information collection practices

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Avatar Resources website and the Avatar Resources contextual marketing platform. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:

IP address
URLs visited

How We Use Information

This information is only used to track website usage and target advertisements.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers.

In order to offer our advertisers targeted advertising we need to show them the sites in the category of their target audience. No other personal information is shared.

Please note: Our site may contain links to other web sites. Avatar Resources is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Our Commitment to Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
Removal Instructions:

Autorun:

Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
  • Entries named "wast".
  • Entries named "AdRoarUpdate" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\ARUpdate.exe".
  • Entries named "WAST" and pointing to "WAST".
  • Entries named "Wast" and pointing to "<$WINDIR>\wast2.exe*".

Installed Software List:

You can try to uninstall products with the names listed below; for items identified by other properties or to avoid malware getting active again on uninstallation, use Spybot-S&D or RunAlyzer to locate and get rid of these entries.
  • Products that have a key or property named "WAST".
  • Products that have a key or property named "WCPR".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\AdRoar.dll".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\artmmp.ini".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\wast2.exe".
  • A file with an unknown location named "wast2.exe".
  • A file with an unknown location named "DR_S.EXE".
  • A file with an unknown location named "WAST.EXE".
  • A file with an unknown location named "ARUpdate.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\AdRoar.dll".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\ARUpdate.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\at.aut".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\cpr_bw.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\cpruninst.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\ast_5_main.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\at.aut".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\cpruninst.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\wast2.exe".
  • The file at "<$WINDIR>\TEMP\cpr_bw.exe".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If AdRoarPlugin uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
  • Delete the registry key "{91D91D21-8008-429D-821C-7266AAC84A9F}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
  • Delete the registry key "{ACE8D3BA-7742-44C4-920D-FD25BD1E8245}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\".
  • Delete the registry key "Wast" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\".
  • Delete the registry key "AdRoarPlugin" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
  • A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "AdRoar.Band", plus associated values.
  • A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "AdRoar.Band.1", plus associated values.
  • Delete the registry key "{BDF6CE3D-F5C5-4462-9814-3C8EAC330CA8}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
If AdRoarPlugin uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
  1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
  2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.