Diet Interactive Removal Guide

Adware developers are on the offensive once again with their newest ad-supported application known as Diet Interactive. It is one of the most annoying malware you can encounter, so we propose that you remove it if your computer has become infected with it. Failure to do so may result in undesirable consequences, such as your computer becoming infected with more malware since this program is capable of advertising downloads of other malware. Your computer’s performance may be reduced, and it might also start having errors and stability issues as a direct consequence of it becoming infected with malware. Furthermore, Diet Interactive might also promote malware that will spy on you and use various methods to extort money from you. So we invite you to read this whole description if you want to know more about this infection.

Diet Interactive is by no means a unique adware-type application, as we have encountered numerous identical programs in the recent past. After testing it, we have concluded that it is identical to BuiltMoneyMaker, Diet Bright, and MultiSurveys, among other adware. Apparently, this application comes from an established group of malware developers that rebrand their adware and rerelease it once cyber security companies find about its existence and configure their antimalware tools to delete it.

Like its counterparts, Diet Interactive is promoted via various browser hijackers that include a link to Dietinteractive.com in their search results. As far as we know, Dietinteractive.com is this adware’s primary source from which it is distributed, and it comes in a software Installer called InstallCore. This is also for installing the previously mentioned clones. We find this fact significant because InstallCore is usually bundled with potentially unwanted programs and browser hijackers, such as MyPcBackup, System Healer, Yoursearching.com, and so on. Thus, in addition to Diet Interactive, you will also get other undesirable software which is not a trait of a legitimate software-developing company.

When you install this adware, the installer will force open you default browser and load a certain web address (Interest6.valuedinformation.com/numbers/?t=5&c1=UAOCD%3A%3A.) This is the only time this site will be loaded. Nevertheless, Diet Interactive has more tricks up its sleeve. This program will run in the background constantly and occasionally open its GUI window that will load a web address called Webmd.com. In addition to its dedicated advertising window, this adware should also force open Internet Explorer and load various promoted websites, some of which may be malicious and infect your computer with malware. This particular adware differs from the rest of the pack because its advertisements are not region-specific, meaning that all users around the world will be subjected to the same promotions. But, nevertheless, its developers can configure and modify the advertising campaign.

Even though the ads are not region-dependent, this adware will, by default, collect certain information about you which includes your Internet Protocol address, Internet Service Provider, system information, device information, and so on. We would also like to mention that the accompanying browser hijackers will also collect similar information about you in addition to your browsing and search history which is used to tailor the ads.

Before we conclude our description, we would like to go over the changes that this program is configured to make to your system. This program ads three registry keys to Internet Explorer to force open it to load the promoted pages. These registry keys include the following:

• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\dietinteractive.com
• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.dietinteractive.com
• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{B9737004-F82D-425F-BE51-9FDEC2E36800}_is1

Note that you will have to delete manually the first two registry keys since uninstalling Diet Interactive via Control Panel leaves them behind. Apart from the keys above this program’s uninstaller will remove all of the files.

We hope that this short description was useful, and you now know that Diet Interactive is much more than just a pesky ad-supported program. It comes bundled with additional browser hijackers and potentially unwanted programs and is capable of promoting similar undesirable applications. So do not waste your time closing this program’s advertising windows and remove this adware once and for all using our instructions.

How to uninstall this adware

Windows 10

1. Right-click on the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and go to Uninstall a program.
3. Find the software and Uninstall it.

Windows 8 & 8.1

1. Right-click on the Start screen and click Programs and Features.
2. Find the unwanted application and click the Uninstall button.

Windows 7 & Vista

1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and Select Uninstall a program.
3. Find the adware right-click on it.
4. Uninstall.

Windows XP

1. Click the Start button.
2. Go to Control Panel and click Add or Remove Program.
3. Find the application and click the Remove button.

Delete the registry keys

1. Press the Windows+R keys, enter regedit and click OK.
2. Locate and Delete the following keys.

• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\dietinteractive.com
• HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.dietinteractive.com