Free program and malware
I quickly figured out why I needed an adware removal tool.
Without thinking, I downloaded a free program.
• After that had malware on my computer
• On my website certain words had been changed to upper case blue
• Hovered over it, an ad showed up.
• Watch the short video below where I described my problem.
The term malware includes computer viruses, ransomware, worms, trojan horses, rootkits, keyloggers, dialers, spyware, adware, malicious BHOs, rogue security software and other malicious programs that you may have on the computer. Signs that you’re infected with malware:
♦ A little box repeatedly comes up in the upper right-hand corner. It tries to sell you something such as a computer cleaner.
♦ Receive an error Internet Explorer could not display the page when attempting to access certain websites.
♦ Your web browser (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome) freezes, hangs or is unresponsive.
♦ Your web browser’s default homepage is changed.
♦ Access to security related websites is blocked.
♦ You get redirected to web pages other than the one to which you intended to go.
How you get infected
One of the videos below says that you can get infected by downloading free software from unreputable websites. However, I even got adware from the official GIMP website. (If you really want GIMP, I recommend paying your $47 and get an ad-free download. Besides that, the $47 version comes with lots & lots of tutorials.)
Adware removal tool for Mac
The video below is by Nerdify. He says: Here is a great product that will get rid of ADWARE on your on you Macbook! I had a terrible outbreak of POP Ups, Glittery ADs on all my browser search results and just an overall ADWARE onslaught that I wouldn’t have been able to fight without this tool! link is provided. It is very very simple and free.
Another free adware removal tool for a Mac is Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac.
Adware removal tool for a PC
The Bliig website says: Does your computer suddenly showing an annoying pop-up advertisement after you installing a free software that you download from the internet? If yes, then most likely you get that problem from a software that you just installed. While you don’t realize that you have been asked to approve the advertisement which is distributed when installing advertising-supported software, because many free software uses various advertisement method to monetize their software.
Check out the 5 different ad removal tools on their website.
To find more information about Adware removal, download a free copy of CurationSoft. Then enter Adware removal tool into the search box. If you will upgrade from your lite (free) version of CurationSoft, you can become an affiliate and sell the software from your website. You will get a commission every time someone upgrades from the lite version to the paid version.
Peter Enns has been developing websites since 1996. He is a social media blogger and author of the free YouTube video-creation tutorial called 7 Day YouTube.
