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Quickly remove toolbars, adware and browser hijackers from your PC with AdwCleaner

Posted on June 20, 2018

Have you noticed that your computer has been running slower, displaying pop-up ads or exhibiting other strange behavior of late?

If so, the reason could be “junkware” such as toolbars, adware, browser hijackers and/or other malware items have infected your PC with their digital crud.

While most high-quality anti-malware programs will detect and remove some of the most common junkware programs, they typically won’t catch them all.

But an awesome free tool called AdwCleaner (from the folks at Malwarebytes) will find and remove virtually all of the junkware that’s currently out there with just a couple of clicks!  [Read more…]

Great news (sort of): The ‘Ask Toolbar’ will no longer change your Home Page or Default Search Engine

Posted on June 13, 2015

no-ask-toolbarIf you have been using computers for any length of time, you have probably had some run-ins with the irritating Ask Toolbar.

Without your explicit permission, it probably installed itself along with some other program you downloaded and then took it upon itself to change your Home Page and Default Search Engine, leaving you wondering what in the world had just happened.

Well, I have some good news to report about the Ask Toolbar: The way it stealthily makes unwanted changes to your computer have finally prompted Microsoft to classify the Ask Toolbar as malware and add it to the list of programs that will automatically be removed by Microsoft’s security tools.  [Read more…]




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