What is Health Alert?
Health Alert – a browser extension that comes to your computer, complete with free programs without the agreement of the user. Health Alert is not a virus, but it refers to the number of potentially unwanted software. By promises of developers, Health Alert designed to find and offer the best offers online stores. Health Alert displays tons of banners and coupons with different content. In fact, these offers are not true. Developers are trying to get you to spend money. Health Alert can change the settings of your browser, your home page, and more. In addition, Health Alert may result in other malicious programs without your consent. We recommend that you remove Health Alert right now.
How Health Alert gets on your PC?
Malicious software infects a computer without the user’s consent. Usually, it comes with free applications and programs that you can download from popular free sites such as download.com, Softpedia, Freewarefiles, Shareware, Soft32 and many others. These sites tend to create their own download managers that implement a potentially unwanted program. Users are not attentive during installation, so the computer can be infected. Always follow the important rules. Read user agreement. Take your time. Do not press the “Next” button, if you are not sure that the program will not harm your computer. Select advanced installation type. Do not settle for questionable deals and carefully follow the installation process. If the malware has already penetrated to the PC, you can use our instructions to remove it immediately.
How to remove Health Alert from your computer?
To uninstall Health Alert remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Health Alert in their database. You can try to use them for removing Health Alert.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Health Alert – files, folders, registry keys.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Health Alert.
You can try both of these products to remove Health Alert
Or uninstall Health Alert manually.
Removing from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Health Alert.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Health Alert and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Health Alert, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
After that remove Health Alert from your browser.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Health Alert.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Health Alert.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable Health Alert.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Remove following registry entries:
no information
Then remove following files:
Health Alert.dll
And following folders
C:Program FilesHealth Alert
Written by Rami Douafi
It still won’t uninstall as when I click uninstall from the control panel it just loads and doesn’t do anything. Is there any other ways plz help?.
Try free Malwarebytes AntiMalware or Spyhunter (not free) – they both detect Health Alert as adware.