This tool, suitable for both home users and technicians, will help you remove these types of programs. It also features an anti-adware host that will help prevent advertising software from installing on your machine.Ī common tactic among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with adware and PUPs in order to earn revenue. Using innovative technology, it’s able to detect Adware (ads software), PUP/LPI (Potentially Unwanted Programs), Intrusive Toolbars, Hijacker (Hijack of the browser’s homepage) and other junkware. Check its report carefully before you delete anything.AdwCleaner is a free anti-adware tool for Windows that will scan your computer and efficiently remove obnoxious programs that slow and impede your computer’s performance. Verdict:ĪdwCleaner did a good job of detecting and removing adware for us, but be careful, it can highlight legitimate programs too. That might be a little inconvenient, but it's the best course of action, and you can always hit Cancel if you change your mind.ĪdwCleaner successfully cleaned our test system, and if it's not quite enough for you then the program can optionally reset a range of Windows settings: proxies, winsock, TCP/IP, firewall, IPsec, BITS, IE and Chrome policies. (Although everything is marked as 'Delete' initially, and there's no 'Clear all' option, so if you only want to delete one out of 20 items then you'll need to clear all the others manually.)Ĭhoose the Cleaning option, and the program warns you that it'll have to close everything and restart your PC to remove the chosen items.

It also did a good job of detecting more dubious files, though, and you can always tell the program you'd like to keep something. Click 'Scan' and in a minute or so the program displays everything it's found, organising the report into several tabs: Services, Folders, Files, Shortcuts, Scheduled Tasks, Registry, Firefox, Chrome.ĪdwCleaner was quite aggressive on our test PC, highlighting some applications we'd consider safe.

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner is a compact and portable tool which can help you to remove toolbars, adware and similar browser-based pests.

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