AdWare Removal – Your Ultimate Guide
AdWare, those malicious programs intent on manipulating your computer experience so that you see the ads the program author desires (whether through software popup windows or browser Popups/redirection), can prove a nuisance, to say the least. I personally recommend the programs Spybot and Ad-Aware for the removal of AdWare.
Both award-winning programs will scan your computer for Spyware and AdWare, removing what they find, and Spybot will additionally create a firewall preventing programs from creating the unwanted registry changes by which such malicious software can get established.
However, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right? Even if you have AdWare on your computer, the AdWare will be severely hampered if you have a good program regulating what advertisements can be shown during your browsing. For this reason, FireFox, and its handy Add-on, Ad-Block Plus, are invaluable. It is with good reason that Ad-Block Plus has been installed by 45 million users.
The handy little Add-on can instantly change anyone’s browsing experience, for it stops ads – all ads – dead in their tracks. No Popups, no text ads, not even ads inside the main browser windows themselves! However, it does not affect installed programs on the computer itself.
Often, AdWare originates from a program you have installed. Wikipedia provides a handy list of programs associated with AdWare, so if you are experiencing AdWare on your computer, you may wish to simply try uninstalling these programs. After uninstalling programs by Viewpoint, RealPlayer, Kazaa, or AOL Instant Messenger, you may find yourself AdWare free. For this reason, your computer’s Add-Removal Programs/Uninstall feature may prove one of the most useful software programs for removing AdWare you will find.