What is MacITHappen pop-ups - How to remove the MacITHappen pop-ups

Cannot stop MacITHappen pop-ups showing up on IE/Firefox/Chrome? How can it come inside silently? This post shows how to delete it from the PC easily.
More Information about MacITHappen
MacITHappen is an unwanted adware application that usually may come bundled with freeware and shareware programs and get installed inside without your permission and consent. Attacked by this malware, every time you surf on the web, you may encounter pop-ups, flyers, and banners spreading all over the browser. If you incautiously click on the ads, you may be taken to other malicious websites without notice. It is how various victims of MacITHappen pick up more infections like Tuvaro, Search.speedial.com, fast clean pro and start sweetpacks .com at the end.

Dangerously, this malware gets installed onto your system secretly and you are not informed about the coming application. Once you try to eradicate this pest you may soon find it hard to wipe this adware out since it drops various files in many different places. All installed Internet browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox will fall victim to this MacITHappen gradually. Slow web page loading issues, browser hangs and breakdown problems and constant unstable network connection will occur from time to time. All in all, it is absolutely necessary for you to eliminate this pest from the PC and browser and stop its harmful campaign.
Note: The following removal needs certain computer skills. If you want to avoid any accident caused by wrong manual operation and save your time, It’is recommended to use this powerful Automatic Virus Removal Tool to save your time and trouble.

Manual Removal Guides:

The Trojan horse virus is an extremely dangerous threat on the infected computer. Registry and other system settings can be modified by it completely, that is the reason the nasty redirect virus can escape the tracking of the security tools like anti-virus program or firewall. It is strongly suggested that PC user should get rid of this Trojan horse virus in a manual way to remove it. Learn more from the manual removal guide below. 1. Safe Mode With Networking Before performing the manual removal of this virus, reboot your computer into "safe mode with networking" by constantly tapping F8 key before Windows is launched. It works for Windows 7, XP & Vista.

2. Press Ctrl+Shift+ESC keys together and stop virus process in the Windows Task Manager.

3. Access Windows Start Menu and navigate to the Control Panel.

4. Click Uninstall a program or Add and remove a program. 6. Go to “My Computer C”, if there is a “Smart Guard Protection ” file, you can delete it as well. 5. Delete all these associated files and registry entries with this Trojan virus from Registry Editor. The registry files are listed randomly. Besides, you need to delete the infection files of the redirect virus from your system files to prevent it from coming back. Those files are named randomly also but may be different on different operating systems. MacITHappen has typically the following processes in memory: %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe MacITHappen creates the following files in the system: %Desktopdir%\MacITHappen.lnk %Programs%\MacITHappen\MacITHappen.lnk MacITHappen creates the following registry entries: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MacITHappen\DisplayIcon %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe,0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MacITHappen HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MacITHappen\UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MacITHappen\ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MacITHappen\DisplayName MacITHappen

6. Manually remove added extensions and modified browser settings For IE (Internet Explorer) Remove Extensions or Add-ons Start IE and click on Tools or gear icon in IE 9 and navigate to Manage Add-ons. Select useless or unknown add-on entries related to MacITHappen pop-up and either Remove or Disable them. Restart IE, so that steps could take effect. Modify browser settings Start IE and click on Tools or gear icon in IE 9 and select to Internet Option. Now navigate to General tab > Change Search Defaults > Settings. Now select your favorite search provider from the list of preferred ones and click on Set as default. Restart IE, so that steps could take effect. For Google Chrome Remove Extensions or Add-ons Start Chrome and then click on Wrench or 3 Horizontal Bar icon at the top left corner of the browser. Next click Tools & then on Extensions. Now search for extension named MacITHappen pop-up or similar, select it and delete it by clicking Trash icon. Restart Chrome, so that steps could take effect. Modify browser settings Start Chrome and then click on Wrench or 3 Horizontal Bar icon at the top left corner of the browser. Next click on Settings > Search > Manage Search Engines. Now select your favorite search provider from the list of preferred ones and click on Make Default. You can also delete unwanted search engines from the list. Restart Chrome, so that steps could take effect. For Mozilla Firefox Remove Extensions or Add-ons Start Firefox and click on Tools from the top menu. As a next step select Add-ons > Extensions. Select useless or unknown extension from the list related to MacITHappen pop-up or similar and either Remove or Disable them. Restart Firefox, so that steps could take effect. Modify browser settings Start Firefox and on the address bar at the top type about:config and hit Enter. Now in the search box type browser.search.defaultenginename, once you find it, right click on it and select Modify. Reset it to your favorite search engine and save it. Next search for entry browser.search.selectedEngine and reset it to other than what is already set. As a last step, search for entry browser.newtab.url and modify it to about:newtab if your new tab doesn't open with your preferred site. Restart Firefox, so that steps could take effect.