How do we get rid of "viruses", ie adware?

Hi friends, today we will see how we get rid of "viruses", as people call them, in fact this epidemic is called Adware and it has certainly affected or affects many users of computers or mobile devices.
Adware is a program that installs or more bundled with software that we want to install it usually comes with free software. During installation routine adware installation steps are very well hidden and users who are not careful, installs and adware in addition to the desired software.
This is not a recent practice of the invention is present for a long time in the software world. If you remember the toolbar is installed with Yahoo Messenger is a famous example. But before Adware was not so annoying and dangerous and the installation can not be done accidentally.
Today I turned into a guinea pig, to see live what happens when I install "blindfolded" in the next-next-next mode.
I must say that does not happen every time, other programs can be more aggressive and difficult to get rid of them. I escaped cheap today.
How to get rid of Adware and Toolbars?
1. Stop all browsers
2. Stop all running in tray (bottom right in the taskbar)
3. Uninstall all suspicious applications
4. Soateti all plug-ins in browsers
5. Change your browser home page
6. Change the default search engine
If you want to change the search engine home page and search engine's address bar of Firefox, watch this tutorial:
How to change the search engine in the address bar in Firefox
Or maybe you want to change the search engine Bing Internet Explorer from Google:
How to change the search engine in Internet Explorer from Bing Google
If you do not handle it, write on the comments section details what happened to you and how it looks and what do you adware.
In future I will upload the tutorial to find tools that make cleaning automatically for you. If you want it, please write me on the comments section.
Careful:
Antivirus software can stop the installation because they have your permission.


Cristian Cismaru: I like everything related to IT&C, I like to share the experience and information I accumulate every day. I'm learning to teach you!

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      • Hello crystals can show if the ecranl computer, Windows Explorer does not work and can not open any program?

      • Hi, can you tell me why I don't delete those applications that installed themselves? I delete them manually (there are about 2 applications, there are not many). After I restart, I'm still there ... why?

    • Hello Mircea.
      It's a very good program, in my opinion. I use it with confidence and I recommend it. :)

    • The problem may be forced to get them up and remove registry to delete files created (installed outside) through program files and sistem32. I had to deal with it, and I can say that it took me approximately 2 hours to give him head. Be careful what download, you install, use reliable sites that do not include such add-ons in installed. Use youtube, you can help! Cristi doing a good job!

  • the easiest way to get rid of viruses and adware and other nonsense is to use linux which is known to be superior to windows in all respects and runs much faster and immune to viruses and you do not need optimization or defragmentation programs that it slows down the windows system more than it helps. if linux is easy then if it's free and asfle get rid of pirated windows and cracked programs etc

    • and I would have a suggestion for cristi and adrian to promote more linux in the sense of urging people to use it as this "promotion" is really worth it

      • Calin is right, Linux distributions should be promoted such as Ubuntu or Linux Mint the latter I use it with pleasure Cinamon 17.1 lam cusomized you almost realize it's Winows 8 or 7, the system has in addition to high performance games what has windows to audio: audacious, clementine, qmmp, xix player, rhythmbox, vlc photo: gwenview, gimp, inkscape, gThumb, mirage, FFMulticonverter, audiorecorder (recording on sound card) very good TV Maxe (a Romanian software Ovidiu Niţan ) watching TV programs almost everything we have on cable, Minitube, Pymaxe, easy-tag, a lot of converters very useful applications all with up-to-date updates with using ppa, even antivirus Comodo one of them (if you would be useful) and these all for free with the operating system that you can customize to your liking even manually easily. Too bad, in the past I saw a little more progress for promoting Linux but unfortunately I noticed that you abandoned tutorials like this, Windows believe me it is nothing superior to Linux, in many places I can say that it is ancient. as a "drug" this Linux while you try it do not give up doing it by the image and likeness of each, try to use it each and you will not be less sorry for children who are su games

      • You can not ask utlilizatorilor of another operating system to use a little more difficult (as a concept not like running). There would certainly linux viruses and if they had a beach as wide as it has windows.
        PS: I used and still use Linux, several distributions

    • by 2004-2006 there was internet cafe with windows and broken programs. If it was with linux ... today I would use linux.
      (Linux as Linux, earlier I put on a live cd, I started, I did not understand anything, I removed the CD and bye-bye. But Mac do not even know what it looks like, for they are too expensive and must be licensed. I want Windows to download most of the RCS to install many programs as possible to watch the windows and see what awesome looks like nothing we have not given 13mil. from EMAG get bored when reinstalling Windows.)

      • You saw here is "hiba" the comfort of man: "I do not understand I do not learn!" then I don't understand why you look at tutorials if not for the purpose of learning !!!!! Windows and its software will give you a hard time on the chain: viruses, spyware, addware and other such nonsense then wait, and wait, and wait indefinitely to eat your nerves time and even money for what ......... I ask you? This is how the man is generally made if the neighbor has a Mercedes and I have to take it, if the neighbor has Windows 10 and I have to have it, then what makes you unique if we do everything like the neighbor?

        • You already tried Linux for two minutes and that's it, just believe me I was comfortable 10 years ago I threw a CD with Linux so I don't see it again then after 2 years I tried again for 8 years I use Linux Ubuntu 10.04 which has a little more , about a month and does not receive an update and parallel Linux Mint Cinamon 17.1 and I will not give up even if you give me a truck with Windows licenses or whatever.

    • Hi ... I've been struggling with adware for 15 years:) ... I don't complicate it anymore ... when the pc starts to malfunction I reinstall SO ... let's be honest ... it's the sure solution ... hah. ..about linux ... that he would be immune to viruses ... he was the best driver in the world ... well ... that's how he knew :)

      • you usually have a custom install ... the thing with IObit is relative ... if you have money you buy it ... I had it broken and it was really annoying ... yahoo toolbar and ask search engine as well. ..and many more ... you know :)

        • see this is the problem for people and Romanians in particular than to put linux better to install windows every 2 3 6 months and prefer to load their pcu with all kinds of "optimization" programs and after a few days it starts to slow down the system and then he gets a lot of nerves. and in addition it also infects viruses from cracks and uses a broken and vulnerable system. you put it on linux once more and you forget when you put it on and it will always work the same way. and compared to 10 years ago, linux evolved, it's no longer so technical, it has become more friendly with the common man. and in addition there are so many tutorials and forums that explain step by step even here in the linux section. 10 years ago and better not everyone could put linux because it was not very with the graphical interface. but now it is very easy to use and install. a tip change your mindset and use free operating systems that are superior to windows. what you do on windows you do on linux except for some rare programs and games but you can use dualboot and when you play enter windows. Once again I hope that cristi and adrian will promote more linux and make more tutorials even open a linux forum section. my opinion and I'm sure many would be interested

          • but to sit crooked judge as
            you think this tutorial is against Windows? I do not think
            do not be so sure that Linux is perfect! it's not
            viruses and it is no problem
            then if it comes pre-installed with something like that when it is downloaded I don't know what user (who knows what it does - knows linux but is malicious) how is it?

          • not all linuxes come with this and say on official sites why it comes with the user and the default password .. and in addition it comes with the user and the default password some but you can change it when you want the password and the user. and where do the viruses come from? when you download them from the official sites that it is not windows, you have to take them from all kinds of unofficial sites. and for linux there are about 400 viruses 500 and anyway they are hard to be functional on linux because it is of that nature and for windows it crashes. and linux is not perfect but compared to windows it is much superior. and in addition, problems detected on linux appear much faster update than on windows, if you ever update that windows as most of those who broke it have an update off on linux, you don't have to stop updating etc. and I didn't say anywhere that this tutorial is against windows. I say try linux before you hear. But it is not typical for Romanians to come from what they heard from xy without testing. install linux and you will feel the difference from all points of view

    • Easier piano on scări.Absolut everything you said about linux is no longer available astăzi.Merg two systems in parallel and know what vorbesc.Din unfortunately right now I discovered a vulnerability in Kubuntu.Instalează recent updates without asking root password and only because I changed the initial update utility's Ubuntu.Sa greatly reduced the gap between systems but is a little recovered.

  • I have been using iobituninstaller for a long time, I like it, it is very easy to use and after uninstalling it also cleans all the garbage from the registers, after it there is a total cleaning, I highly recommend it.

    • Radu.
      It's just your opinion that it does total registry cleaning. Cristi once said that no quaternary software completely cleans the registry. They must be cleaned manually. But that's a more sophisticated thing. I suggest in this way the video tutorial team to make a tutorial in which to show how to manually clean the registry of the "garbage" left after uninstalling a software.

  • I think 60-70% of regular users when they install something do not know or do not know what happens to them during installation giving next next next.without knowing.When you look at their PCs are full of such adware I met cases when the adware was so aggressive (it was a browser that had changed its search engine) that I failed to set another engine until I uninstalled the browser and put it back, .. When uninstalling I only use revouninstaler on my PC, otherwise I am careful when installing software so as not to get rid of this crap. I know there is an adware installer but I don't know what to call it.

    • It's Unchecky which we already have a video tutorial on our site. I find using the search box top right of the website.

  • I use "Unchecky"
    Uncheck all programs that come bundled with software
    It is made and recommended for "non-professionals", children and the elderly.

  • My opinion is that you should continue this series of tutorials. But I think you should present something that automatically removes all this crap. I agree, the manual method is the best. But I tell you from my own experience ... an inexperienced, unfamiliar user will not be able to handle the manual method. How many times have I tried to explain these things to various people or friends ... to no avail. After a while, their home page, search engine changed and they woke up with all sorts of "optimizers" in the startup. The problem is that about 75-80% of all free software comes bundled with such nonsense. You don't have much to do ... than to create an avoidance behavior ... to "vaccinate" yourself and to read better what is written there. This even happens to me sometimes, under certain circumstances. For example when I have to reinstall the operating system for someone, drivers plus various additional software. There are times when I don't feel like it ... I hurry up and become careless. How come there is a hell of a lot of this. Okay, I'll fire her later. Once I was trying to uninstall such a thing, it made me enter a captcha code in a field. Obviously those captcha codes were written with the feet. You could barely understand what it says ... the developer of that shit was practically making fun of me :)

      • I think the problem with the texts themselves too long to be seen from another point of view. Vali writing as he considers necessary to be as fully in explanation. Mmg1818 did read that than to circumvent such explanations. You are not required to read and write any one who is not obliged to write for those too lazy to read them.

  • Hello
    excuse me you may be very busy but I want to ask you if you met mystartsearch because it has been installed for me and I can't really get rid of it ... maybe you have a solution thank you

  • To protect the browser home page or preventing a change in this or other sensitive areas of the operating system can also be used WinPatrol also presented a tutorial on our website can be found by using the search box top right.

    • Thanks for the suggestion, I will test it in the next few days in a virtual car to see what it's all about ...

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