How To Remove Ad-free.info Pop-ups

Users should be safe against Ad-free.info adware

There’s probably something wrong with your computer or device if you are being constantly redirected to pages like Ad-free.info. All it indicates an adware or browser redirect virus installed on system. This kind of objects are basically developed and marketed by cyber crime master minds with sole intention to promote vicious online promotions and earn commissions from their advertisers. However, surfing the web sessions become quite terrible due to such pop up eruptions, and thus removal of such traits are highly necessary. To learn more about Ad-free.info, read through this article.

Threat Summary

Name: Ad-free.info
Type: Browser hijacker, Redirect virus, Pop up virus
Symptoms: Changed homepage, new tab, search engine, proxy, etc
Distribution: Bundled software distribution, malicious links or advert campaigns, spam email campaigns, etc.
Removal: It’s suggested to do a deep scan and clean all identified threats from computer to assure your web sessions to be smoother once again.

What is Ad-free.info?

Ad-free.info is one of the deceptive computer infection that experts have discovered recently and classified it into redirect virus or browser hijacker family. Looking through it for the first time, this threat can easily be believed to be a true element to offer real promises, but it’s just a malicious domain customized by online hackers to lure and cheat innocent users drastically. This kind of hacker applications are used by cyber crooks to redirect web traffic to low quality ot malicious websites from where they can earn commissions from such website owners.

This kind of infectious object is powered to infect any Windows based computers and immediately and target preinstalled main browsers at first to modify its default settings. Later on, the said hijacker program will even contaminate other web browsers as well. As a result, whenever you try to surf the web safely, you will be forced to visit third party malicious websites without your intentions. The same can also open a number of commercial pop ups or banners on screen to annoy your complete online sessions.

Security experts say this browser hijacker domain called Ad-free.info is really very harmful and may lead you to suffer high end issues further. Officially, a hijacker infection is not much powered to damage computer functions and behaviors because its intended aspects to make money is also dependent on the same machine. But, the whole online sessions of a user becomes drastic and terrible as well because other malicious websites where Ad-free.info usually redirect the victims may malicious or phishing ones. This can inject more malicious codes inside system without any prior notice that can damage the system to throw more errors.

Why Ad-free.info ads are visible on screen?

Talking about this fact, most of the malware intrusions usually happens through free downloads, spam email attachments, suspicious websites, torrent file downloads, and many more other tricky methods as well. In the same manner, the source codes of Ad-free.info is also first bundled with a plenty of free objects which seems helpful in initial or are real freebies as well. But, once they are downloaded and installed on a machine having already present vulnerabilities, Ad-free.info gets secretly executed then takes over browser settings to disrupt overall system performance in no time. And this further turns the web sessions to be terrible for users.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Ad-free.info:

Remove the related items of Ad-free.info using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Ad-free.info issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Ad-free.info) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Ad-free.info removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Ad-free.info still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Ad-free.info plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Ad-free.info removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Ad-free.info (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.