Remove Generic.TMH From Your Infected PC

What is Generic.TMH? What trouble will it bring to you? How can you effectively get rid of this threat? If you want to know the answers to these questions, please read more.

Generic.TMH is a type of adware used by cyber hackers to promote certain products or services. Similar to other types of adware like Adware.WindowLivePot.A and BrowseBit adware, it is written to infect users’ computers and show them tons of annoying ads, coupons, sponsored links, discount offers and deals according to their interests or habits. Why we say “according to their interests or habits”? You may wonder. Actually, once this adware gets installed on users’ computers, it can monitor their online activities, traces their browser cookies, in order to collect their personal information such as IP address, email address, search terms and even website usernames and passwords. After that, it will “package” the information it has collected and send it to the remote cyber hackers by using the network connections of the users. That information collected may be analyzed and sold to some advertisers who will deliver tons of ads to the users based on their habits or interests. So, you can see that Generic.TMH could result in personal information exposure.

Besides, the adware can make some changes on users’ computers. It may delete files from the hard drives, modify system settings, disable important programs and corrupts system utilities, which would lead to various unwanted problems and even cause some irremediable damage. In addition, this adware will changes the browser settings and host file, in order to redirect users’ search results to certain websites and thus to boost traffic and make great profits. Usually, the websites that users are forced to visit will promote some products which look cheap and attractive. Actually, those products are not reliable and worth buying. So, if you are redirected to those misleading websites, you shouldn’t believe in and purchase those attractive but fake products. To prevent unnecessary damage and loss, it is better for you to get rid of Generic.TMH immediately.

Tips: Adware often sneaks onto users’ machines through spam email attachments, infected media or USB devices, freeware, shareware, unsafe websites, instant messaging, suspicious links, etc. So, to avoid encountering this adware again, you should keep the rules in mind: don’t open email attachments sent by unknown people; scan for malware before installing a removable device on your computer; avoid download free software from trustless sources; don’t click on pop-ups or sponsored links in unsafe websites; don’t receive files sent from an unknown person while using the instant messaging applications; read carefully the terms and agreements before installing an application onto your computer.

How to Manually Remove Generic.TMH

Step 1: End the Malicious Processes.

Press the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys together to start the Windows task manager. Then click on the “Processes” tab and kill the following malicious processes associated with the adware.

%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

Step 2: Remove the malicious components related to Generic.TMH.

In the local hard disk C, find out and remove the following files.

%Desktopdir%\[adware name].lnk
%Programs%\[adware name]\[adware name].lnk
%Program Files%\[adware name]

Click the Start menu, in the search box type “regedit” and click “regedit” from the result list. After the registry editor is opened, you need to remove the following the adware associated registry entries.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]\DisplayIcon %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe,0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]\UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]\DisplayName [adware name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]\ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u

Step 3: Remove the add-onss related to Generic.TMH from the affected browsers.

Internet Explorer:
1. Launch the IE browser.
2. Click on “Tools” and select “Manage add-ons” from the drop-down menu.
3. Click on “Toolbars and Extensions”, find out and disable the unknown add-ons.

Google Chrome:
1. Run the Chrome browser.
2. Click on the Wrench icon or 3-bar icon.
3. From the drop-down list, click on “Tools” and click on “Extensions”.
4. On “Extensions” tab, find out and remove the unknown extensions from the browser.

Mozilla Firefox:
1. Open the Firefox browser.
2. Click the “Tools” and select “Add-ons” from the drop-down menu.
3. On “Extensions” and “Plugins” tabs, find out and remove/disable the add-ons.

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