Remove Sonic Train Ads from Firefox/Chrome/IE

How to Remove Sonic Train ads from Chrome, Firefox or IE in several easy steps? Follow the Ads by Sonic Train removal instructions and you will stop the virus.

Sonic Train is an adware application, and it exhibits all the characteristics of one. Naturally, the never-ending pop-up ads are the most powerful and most infuriating aspect of getting stuck with this potentially unwanted program. And, you better get used to seeing these pop-ups incessantly as they’ll quickly become a part of your everyday life. Oh, yes. They’ll be your constant companion every time you try to use your browser and will mess up your online experience continuously. Once the ads start to appear, they will never go away unless you get rid of the application altogether. That’s the only way to cease this obnoxious and harmful bombardment. What’s more, Sonic Train keeps track of your browsing activities, of all of the pages you visit, and floods you with pop-up ads specific to your preferences. This is an extremely hazardous infection, and you shouldn’t underestimate the amount of damages it will cause you if you allow it to stay on your PC. It’s advised to delete the Sonic Train program as soon as you find out it has invaded your system. That way, you’ll save yourself a ton of problems and grievances, and your future self will thank you for it.

Where does this comes from?

Sonic Train is one of those applications that you cannot directly download. You might find yourself wondering how you got stuck with such an intrusive and annoying program. Surely, you haven’t given your permission to its installation. Right? You couldn’t have. Or is that so? Think about it. After all, Sonic Train is bound to seek your approval before it installs itself on your computer, so at some point you must have agreed and allowed it in. But don’t beat yourself up too hard. Adware programs tend to use every trick in the book so as to dupe users into approving them in. The most common method of infection is through freeware. Sonic Train has the habit of attaching itself to such free programs and using them as a shield to hide behind, and basically parades in through the front door without you even realizing it. If you’re not careful enough when familiarizing yourself with the terms and conditions of what you agree to install, you can easily end up giving the green light to all kinds of dangerous tools. Be more attentive! A little extra attention goes a long way.

Is this dangerous?

Even though Sonic Train isn’t technically a virus, some users have branded it as one. It’s not particularly hard to accept their opinion as the tool can indeed pass as a virus because it acts like one. One day it just appears seemingly out of the blue and starts wreaking all sorts of havoc around your computer. The application bombards you with a never-ending waterfall of pop-ups, which even further damage your system. Oh, yes. Their incessant appearance leads to frequent system crashes and a slower computer performance. Furthermore, as the pop-ups are extremely unreliable, if you’re not careful enough, you’ll end up installing malware. A single click on a single ad, by choice or accident, inevitably results in you unwillingly approving the installation of more unwanted malware tools. But that’s not even the worst part of having Sonic Train as a guest. The program jeopardizes your personal and financial information as it spies on you. It starts keeping a thorough record of your every move immediately after infiltration. When it determines it has enough data from you, it hands it to the people behind it. That means strangers will have access to your private life. Do you think that’s a good idea? Save yourself the time and energy of dealing with this program, and avoid all of the problems it WILL cause you. Delete Sonic Train as soon as you first become aware of its existence, before it crosses the line between “frustrating” to “hazardous”.

Attention! You should be aware that all of your accounts and passwords were likely compromised. Viruses are designed to collect every piece of private information. We advise you to change all your passwords, once you clean your computer, especially if you make online banking or shopping.

How Can I Remove Sonic Train Ads?

Compatible with Microsoft

SpyHunter is the recommended removal tool for Sonic Train Virus. You can use the free scanner to detect the parasite, however if you want to delete it automatically you need to register the antimalware program.
What if SpyHunter failed to Detect or Remove the infection? – Find out here how to use the FREE Support.

Remove Sonic Train infection Manually

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Sonic Train infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. you may want to print this guide or look at it in another computer.

STEP 1: Remove Sonic Train from IE, Chrome or Firefox

STEP 2: Uninstall Sonic Train from your Add/Remove programs list

STEP 3: Delete Sonic Train Windows Registry Traces

STEP 1: Remove Sonic Train from IE, Chrome or Firefox

Sonic Train Ads will infect every browser you have. You need to do the steps one by one.

Remove From Internet Explorer

• Open Internet Explorer
• Up to the Right Click on the Gear Icon
  
• Go to Toolbars and Extensions
• Disable the ads by Sonic Train extension.
• If the button is not active, you need to go to your Windows Registry and delete the corresponding CLSID
• Then go back to the Gear Icon.
• Click on Internet options

• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.

• Check the “Delete Personal Settings Tab” and then Reset

• Restart IE

to make sure nothing is interfering with your browser, right click on the shortcut target and click properties

• In the target field you need to have the following command parameter: “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”
• if you have something else, just delete it and replace it.
• simultaneously press the windows start button and “R”
• in the opened dialog box type “regedit“
• Once the windows registry editor opens navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main:Start Page
• Modify the starting page with a value so that it corresponds to the webpage you want.
• click OK and IE should be cleaned.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox

• Open Mozilla Firefox
• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Carefully review all add-ons and disable the unknowns
• Open the Firefox’s Help Menu

 

• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Refresh Firefox

Remove from Google Chrome

• Open Google Chrome
• On the upper right corner click the Chrome menu Icon (looks like three dashes)
• Hover Over More tools, then Extensions
• in the extensions windows disable all unknown extensions
• On the upper right corner click the again the Chrome menu Icon (looks like three dashes)
• Click on Settings, Show Advanced Settings then Reset

STEP 2 : Uninstall Sonic Train from Your Computer

• Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and “R” to open the Run Command
• In the open dialog box type “Appwiz.cpl“
• Locate the Sonic Train program and click on uninstall/change.
• Also, be warned that viruses always want to trick you into installing more crap. If you see a screen like this when you click Uninstall, Click NO!

STEP 3 : Delete Sonic Train Windows Registry Traces

These are the places in the windows registry where viruses inject their malicious payload. If you want to be 100% sure that nothing is hooking your system, check these locations. However, be very careful when editing the windows registry, because you can render your system unbootable.

• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• HKLM \System\CurrentControlSet\Services
• HKLM \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
• HKLM \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit
• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\\Shell
• HKLM \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\\Shell
• HKLM \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
• HKLM \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\load
• HKLM \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
• HKLM \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SharedTaskScheduler

Where HKCU stands for HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Where HKLM stands for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

• Check these folders for corruption as well.

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\user\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup