What is ScreenShared?

ScreenShared – an adware that gets into PC without user consent, bundled with freeware’s downloaders and web-clients. According to the developers, ScreenShared created in order to help the user to share screenshots with others. In fact, ScreenShared is a malicious program that can harm your personal data. ScreenShared can change the settings of your browser, collect personal information, analyze all your actions and send it to third parties without your consent. In addition, ScreenShared can bring other malicious software. This adware displays a lot of ads (banners, coupons, pop-ups and more). If you found ScreenShared on your computer, we recommend you to remove it immediately.

How ScreenShared gets on your PC?

Programs, that are among the potentially unwanted programs come bundled with free software. Typically, such programs penetrate the PC without the user’s consent. Because of this, many users do not realize that a computer is infected with malware and the PC is at great risk. However, it is worth noting that the main reason for such penetrations – carelessness user. People do not read the terms and conditions during the installation of free software. It was there that may contain the consent to install PUP. Also, during the installation, ensure that the installer did not offer you a third-party software. To prevent such problems, you should always follow the installation process, read the terms and conditions, do not agree to install additional software, and select the Advanced type of installation. If ScreenShared has already penetrated into your computer, you can use the instructions below.

How to remove ScreenShared from your computer?

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

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

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You can try both of these products to remove ScreenShared

Or uninstall ScreenShared manually.

Step 1: Remove ScreenShared from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find ScreenShared.
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 ScreenShared 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 ScreenShared, 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 ScreenShared 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 ScreenShared from your browser.

Step 2: Remove ScreenShared from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find ScreenShared.
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 ScreenShared.
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 ScreenShared.
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 ScreenShared:

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi