What is Eridanus?

Eridanus – it is a potentially unwanted program comes on your computer in the form of an extension to the browser without the user’s consent. Eridanus hijacks popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Eridanus is an advertising program. This program displays a huge amount of ads, banners and coupons. This ad can appear at any time during your browsing. Ads are signed as “Optimized by Eridanus”, “powered by Eridanus”, “brought by Eridanus”. These ads can be directed to various popular advertising sites. Also, Eridanus changing your browser options, change the homepage, and other computer settings. Eridanus significantly reduces the performance of your computer and increase traffic. After penetrating the computer, this program can install other malware on your PC without the user’s consent. Eridanus can redirect the user to other sites and replace the search results. If Eridanus already infected your PC, you will need to remove it immediately.

How Eridanus gets on your PC?

Similar programs belong to potentially unwanted programs. These programs come on a computer without the user’s consent, so you may have overlooked the penetration of this program. PUP is installed on PC bundled with freeware program such as archivers, download managers, players and so on. The user must be considerate during the installation process to prevent the penetration of unwanted programs. To do this, you need to read the user agreement. Do not agree to install unknown or suspicious programs. Not need to trust programs from unknown publishers. Always follow the installation process and do not rush to click “Next”. If your computer is already infected, you can use our instructions listed below to get rid of Eridanus.

How to remove Eridanus from your computer?

To uninstall Eridanus remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Eridanus in their database. You can try to use them for removing Eridanus.

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You can try both of these products to remove Eridanus

Or uninstall Eridanus manually.

Step 1: Remove Eridanus from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Eridanus.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Eridanus and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Eridanus, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Eridanus and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Eridanus from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Eridanus from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Eridanus.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Eridanus.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Eridanus.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Eridanus:

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi