Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!”

About this infection

The reason you are seeing “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam ads is because of an adware infection. The main goal of these bogus alerts is to trick users into dialing supposed tech-support who would first ask for remote access to your computer, and then install overpriced, possibly useless software. If you are dealing with adware , the advertisements will be very invasive. You could have ran into the adware contamination if you didn’t pay attention during freeware installation. You just need to not fall for these scams, the alerts are not dangerous themselves. However, if you did call them, scammers would attempt to fool you into giving a lot of money for a service you have no need for, or they would install some kind of spying malicious software, and that may lead to stolen personal details. Keep in mind that before you authorize anyone to have remote access to your OS, you must check them and make sure they are who they say they are. And when it comes to this warning, don’t pay any attention to it, it is not legitimate. In order to make the advertisements no longer appear, all you need to do is erase  “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam.

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Why are the pop-ups appearing

Since no one would voluntarily install adware, it is generally distributed via free programs. If some kind of item travels along with the freeware, you should uncheck it, and it can’t be done in Default mode. Only in Advanced or Custom settings will you be able to deselect everything so opting for those settings is encouraged. If you come across any additional offers, uncheck them. And while those items might not necessarily bring about harm, if they didn’t inform you about their installation properly, they shouldn’t be allowed to install. If you want to avoid having to eliminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam and similar over and over again, be more attentive about how you install software.

The bogus warnings aim to deceive people into believing that their device has came across some kind of problem. Con artists will come up with all kinds scenarios, such as malware, licensing or system issues. The alert will also caution you about leaked or lost data because this urges less computer savvy users. So as to prevent those data loss scenarios, the user is required to call scammers who are pretending to be tech-support. No trustworthy company will ever ask you to call them, so remember that. For example, if Apple or Microsoft is asking you to call them, it’s certainly a scam attempt. Con artists on the other side of the line would claim that the problem needs to be dealt with immediately but that would cost you a lot of money. Tech-support scams are quite transparent but because less-computer savvy people have not ran into them before, they might fall for them. Even if you dismiss the first pop-up, it would pop-up again and again later on, so people falling for such a scam is not a scenario that is hard to imagine. But you could easily find out whether it is a scam by using a search engine to check it out. Most results will include comments from users advising to be cautious of these con artists. Now that it’s been confirmed to be a scam, you can ignore the warning without worrying about some type of malicious program on your computer, and can deal with the actual issue. If the pop-ups are showing up constantly, you will need to locate and uninstall “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam adware.

Ways to terminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam

You should be able to take care of “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam termination without issues. You may opt to eliminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam by hand or automatically, depending on how much experience you have with computers. Choosing the manual way means you will have to locate the infection yourself but you will see instructions to aid you below this article. Using spyware removal utility to uninstall “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam could take much less time so you ought to consider acquiring it. The pop-ups should stop appearing if the infection was removed fully.

Learn how to remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from your computer

• Step 1. How to delete “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Windows?
• Step 2. How to remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from web browsers?
• Step 3. How to reset your web browsers?

Step 1. How to delete “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Windows?

• a) Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related application from Windows XP
• b) Uninstall “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related program from Windows 7 and Vista
• c) Delete “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related application from Windows 8
• d) Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Mac OS X system

a) Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related application from Windows XP

1. Click on Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Choose Add or remove programs
4. Click on “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related software
5. Click Remove

b) Uninstall “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related program from Windows 7 and Vista

1. Open Start menu
2. Click on Control Panel
3. Go to Uninstall a program
4. 
5. Select “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related application
6. Click Uninstall

c) Delete “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related application from Windows 8

1. Press Win+C to open Charm bar
2. Select Settings and open Control Panel
3. Choose Uninstall a program
4. Select “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam related program
5. Click Uninstall

d) Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Mac OS X system

1. Select Applications from the Go menu.
2. In Application, you need to find all suspicious programs, including “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam. Right-click on them and select Move to Trash. You can also drag them to the Trash icon on your Dock.

Step 2. How to remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from web browsers?

• a) Erase “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Internet Explorer
• b) Eliminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Mozilla Firefox
• c) Delete “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Google Chrome
• d) Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Edge

a) Erase “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Internet Explorer

1. Open your browser and press Alt+X
2. Click on Manage add-ons
3. Select Toolbars and Extensions
4. Delete unwanted extensions
5. Go to Search Providers
6. Erase “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam and choose a new engine
7. Press Alt+x once again and click on Internet Options
8. Change your home page on the General tab
9. Click OK to save made changes

b) Eliminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Mozilla and click on the menu
2. Select Add-ons and move to Extensions
3. Choose and remove unwanted extensions
4. Click on the menu again and select Options
5. On the General tab replace your home page
6. Go to Search tab and eliminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam
7. Select your new default search provider

c) Delete “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Google Chrome

1. Launch Google Chrome and open the menu
2. Choose More Tools and go to Extensions
3. Terminate unwanted browser extensions
4. Move to Settings (under Extensions)
5. Click Set page in the On startup section
6. Replace your home page
7. Go to Search section and click Manage search engines
8. Terminate “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam and choose a new provider

d) Remove “Dear Facebook User, Congratulations!” scam from Edge

1. Launch Microsoft Edge and select More (the three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
2. Settings → Choose what to clear (located under the Clear browsing data option)
3. Select everything you want to get rid of and press Clear.
4. Right-click on the Start button and select Task Manager.
5. Find Microsoft Edge in the Processes tab.
6. Right-click on it and select Go to details.
7. Look for all Microsoft Edge related entries, right-click on them and select End Task.

Step 3. How to reset your web browsers?

• a) Reset Internet Explorer
• b) Reset Mozilla Firefox
• c) Reset Google Chrome
• d) Reset Safari

a) Reset Internet Explorer

1. Open your browser and click on the Gear icon
2. Select Internet Options
3. Move to Advanced tab and click Reset
4. Enable Delete personal settings
5. Click Reset
6. Restart Internet Explorer

b) Reset Mozilla Firefox

1. Launch Mozilla and open the menu
2. Click on Help (the question mark)
3. Choose Troubleshooting Information
4. Click on the Refresh Firefox button
5. Select Refresh Firefox

c) Reset Google Chrome

1. Open Chrome and click on the menu
2. Choose Settings and click Show advanced settings
3. Click on Reset settings
4. Select Reset

d) Reset Safari

1. Launch Safari browser
2. Click on Safari settings (top-right corner)
3. Select Reset Safari...
4. A dialog with pre-selected items will pop-up
5. Make sure that all items you need to delete are selected
6. Click on Reset
7. Safari will restart automatically

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