How to Get Rid of WalletBee

When WalletBee gets into your PC, you will be constantly received a lot of pop-up ads. Sometimes these ads may show up frequently while you are browsing the internet, sometimes they pop up straightly as soon as you boot the target computer. Moreover, WalletBee adware uses browser extensions to highlight some words on the web pages that people are visiting and transform them into hyperlinks. Once computer users rolls the mouse over the link, an affiliate revenue may be produced for the cyber crooks. Due to these harmful tasks, WalletBee is identified as adware by computer experts.

Whiles, not only creating annoying pop-ups, WalletBee  also perform other tasks in the target system. The long you keep WalletBee, the more you would suffer. WalletBee has the ability to have changes on the compromised system and it aims to steal your private information for illegal use, which you need to be aware of it. Besides, the adware would decrease computer performance ability and installs additional viruses to cause improper internet work.

Moreover, WalletBee may steal data and gather personal secret data, which turn out to be often of a financial nature from the affected systems. Collected data may include credit card numbers, tax returns, login credentials or any other informed deemed to be of interest to the attacker.

How to Remove WalletBee?

Method one: Manually Remove WalletBee

Method two: Automatically Get Rid of WalletBee with Spyhunter

Choose one of the methods to remove WalletBee permanently from your PC, please perform all the steps in correct order.

Method one: Manually Remove WalletBee

Step 1- Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):
Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.

Step 2- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 3- Show all hidden files
Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 4- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%Public%\Documents\*.*
%ProgramData%\*.*
%Temp%\[random] WalletBee.exe
%StartupFolder%\wpbt0.dll
Step 5- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.
Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”

Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”

Method two: Automatically Get Rid of WalletBee

SpyHunter is designed as a simple way for the average computer user to protect their PC from online threats. It is automatically configured to give you the best protection. It provides reliable protection against all kinds of malicious threats including spyware, adware, hijackers, rootkits, and more. You can follow the instructions provided below to download and install SpyHunter successfully, and enjoy the immediate and ongoing protection.

1. Download SpyHunter by clicking the following download link:
2. Double-click on the downloaded file. If asked to allow program to make changes to this computer, click “Yes” button.
3. In this step, please accept the Licence Agreement and click “Next >” button.
4. After the definition database is downloaded, system scan will automatically start.
5. Remove all the threats.


Kindly reminder: WalletBee will make more damages as time goes by, you should take action to remove it as soon as possible. As manual removal is very complicated, you must be very prudent during the whole removal process. If you are not familiar with the deletion of harmful files, processes, dll files and registry entries, it is suggested that you use automatic removal method. Download and install Spyhunter which is designed specifically to deal with WalletBee here to regain a fast, clean and safe PC now.