Category: Adware

Articles about removing adware: browser extensions generating ads, pop-ups and banners.

How to Remove MPC Cleaner and Search.mpc.am Homepage

How to stop ads by MPC Cleaner

What Is MPC Cleaner? Is It Safe?

MPC Cleaner (or More Powerfull Cleaner) by DotCash Limited is a system optimizer that may have installed on your computer without your participation. MPC Cleaner is supposed to clear your PC of junk and make it run faster. In practice, the computer will become even slower; also, to save system resources, MPC Cleaner may close some applications you work at and cause you to lose important data. This program generates various advertisements in browser windows when you surf the web, while MPC Safe Navigation extension may set your homepage and default search to http://search.mpc.am. You can use this removal guide to get rid of MPC Cleaner and its components. READ MORE

How to Remove KNCTR Ads

How to stop ads by KNCTR

What Is KNCTR?

KNCTR from Itibity Inc. is advertised as handy software that allows users to call mobile and landline phones and to access their Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as RSS feeds, from inside the program’s window. The downside of using this utility though is constant ads pestering users as they browse the Internet. In addition to that, KNCTR can be harder to delete than most programs, as it launches on start-up and runs in the background – and you cannot uninstall a running program. In truth, removing KNCTR from your computer is not that complicated; you can follow this guide to do it. READ MORE

How to Remove Wajam Ads

How to stop ads by Wajam

What Is Wajam?

Wajam is a browser extension that may end up on your PC after you download an app from the Internet for free. Wajam is supposed to enhance your search results by searching also through your friends’ recommendations on social media sites. Being an adware program, however, Wajam injects advertisements in pages you visit; it can disable some of the browser add-ons you have installed, like ad-blockers. Wajam reconfigures your Internet settings to use a proxy server, so any data that transfers to or from your computer is not safe and can potentially be stolen. Please, read this page if you want to remove Wajam and its ads from your PC. READ MORE

How to Remove Hp.myway.com and Int.search.myway.com

How to stop hp.myway.com and int.search.myway.com redirects

What Is Hp.myway.com Hijacker?

If opening homepage or a new tab in your browser brings you to http://hp.myway.com/quickphotoedit/ttab02/index.html, while entering search queries into search bar or omnibar brings you results from http://int.search.myway.com, that means a browser hijacker got control of your browser settings. This hijacker is on of the programs installed on your PC. The culprits is probably QuickPhotoEdit, or it may be some other application by Mindspark Interactive Network. Other then redirecting you to hp.myway.com and int.search.myway.com, QuickPhotoEdit makes you watch video ads, turns random text into advertising links and display other types of ad materials. You may follow this removal guide to get rid of hp.myway.com and int.search.myway.com redirects. READ MORE

How to Remove Crvlck.com redirects

How to stop Crvlck.com error messages

What Is Crvlck.com?

You click on a link and see an error message, the URL of which starts with http://crvlck.com. You might be asked for your login and password or other sensitive information. As you probably realized already, the message doesn’t originate from the site you were going to visit and this is in fact an attempt to steal your personal data. You can use instructions on this page to get rid of Crvlck.com redirects. READ MORE

How to Remove Ads by Advertiser

How to stop ads by Advertiser

What Are Ads by Advertiser?

Ads by Advertiser might pop-up in your browser when you visit shopping sites, and offer items similar to those you look at, from other online stores. The ads could take various forms, for example, a bar at the top of the page. These advertisements don’t come from the site you are on and instead are generated by an adware program installed on your computer. Apart from being an annoyance, adware can gather information about you that it uses to customize ads and can share with third party companies. This removal guide will help you to get rid of Ads by Advertiser. READ MORE

How to Remove Mokiray Ads

How to stop ads by Mokiray

What Is Mokiray?

Mokiray is supposed to be a handy app for people who likes to shop online. While some of its features may indeed be useful, Mokiray is an adware program and it displays all kinds of ads when the user surfs the Internet. What’s more, Mokiray collects information about the user: ID address, hardware and software data, sites visited, mouse clicks made, things searched for online, items added to shopping carts and so on. If you are conscious of your privacy and don’t have much patience for intrusive advertising, you’d better remove Mokiray app from your PC. READ MORE

How to Remove “Hello, New User” Pop-ups

How to stop “Hello, New User” notifications

What Is “Hello, New User” Adware?

“Hello, New User” messages might pop up on random sites when you browse the Internet and not let you do anything on the page until the message is closed. In some cases you may not be able to stay on the page and are redirected instead to advertising websites. Your browsers might become slow or unresponsive. All that would mean that your computer is infected with adware. This removal guide will tell you how to get rid of “Hello, New User” adware and stop the pop-ups. READ MORE

How to Remove LuDaShi (鲁大师)

How to stop LuDaShi ads and pop-ups

What Is LuDaShi?

LuDaShi (鲁大师) is a system optimization tool by a Chinese company Qilu Technology Co., Ltd. LuDaShi doesn’t seem very useful for anyone who doesn’t speak Chinese though, as this is the only language the app supports. As it is an ad-supported program, LuDaShi displays numerous ads and pop-ups on the infected computer. You shouldn’t click on these ads (or, ideally, on any ads at all) as doing it might bring you to suspicious or malicious sites and, in the worst case, lead to malware infection. If you got ads by LuDaShi on your PC and want to uninstall LuDaShi software, please follow the removal guide below. READ MORE

How to Remove Toppypop Ads

How to stop ads by Toppypop

What Is Toppypop?

Toppypop is advertised as an extension that allows users to navigate pages easier and move to the top from any part of the page with one click. This doesn’t seem as a particularly useful function, and if you consider that Toppypop generates ads of various types when the users browse the web, keeping this program is not worth the trouble. Ads by Toppypop might prompt users to leave their contact information and receive special offers and discounts; doing that may lead, in the best case, to the users getting spam. Toppypop also keeps records of the users’ Internet activity: pages viewed, search queries entered, software installed and so on. If you wish to delete Toppypop from your PC, please read the instructions below. READ MORE

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