How To Remove Ads by PC Cleaner From PC

Ads by PC Cleaner: Simple Delete Process

Ads by PC Cleaner usually appear on your system screen when the device is infected with an adware infection. PC Cleaner is presented as a useful tool that cleans the operating system and enhances overall PC performance. However, it’s indeed a potentially unwanted program (PUP) which upon getting into the targeted computers, starts running intrusive advertisement campaigns. This nasty adware delivers an excessive amount of unreliable and even malevolent ads and interrupts users’ web sessions badly. People hardly ever install such browser-based intruders deliberately. In most cases, they are spread with the help of deceptive techniques like software bundling.

Ads by PC Cleaner Come In Various Forms:

Ads by PC Cleaner keep showing up on each web page users visit and could be in multiple forms e.g., pop-ups, banners, coupons, deals, offers, discounts, surveys, etc. They are designed to generate pay-per-click revenues, so the more people click on these adverts, the more income the creators of this adware make. These ads overlay the webpage content, downgrade the browsing speed, and completely diminish the online experience. Moreover, they put compromised device’s security at high risk as they may take victims to potentially dangerous websites filled with spiteful material.

Due to interacting with Ads by PC Cleaner, you might be redirected to web portals that may contain malware, push notification viruses, PUPs, porn, gambling, tech support scam, and so forth. Visiting on such precarious domains may result in personal data exposure, system infections, and other unkind issues. Furthermore, these intrusive advertisements can stealthily download and install malicious software upon clicked by running certain scripts. And thus, stay away from them no matter how attractive or useful they seem at the first glance.

Ads by PC Cleaner are indeed very eye-catching as they are based on users’ online activities. PC Cleaner inserts various spying cookies on Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and other browsers and constantly monitors victims’ actions whatever they do online. It collects several browsing-related data such as sites visited, links clicked, search queries typed, IP addresses, geolocations, and even personal information like credit card and banking details. Afterwards, the gathered data is sold to third-parties for monetary purposes and is utilized for customizing advertisements, making fraudulent transactions, and so on. Therefore, this notorious parasite may lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft and significant financial losses. So, a quick Ads by PC Cleaner virus removal is strongly recommended.

How Does This PUP Enter Your System?

At most of the times, potentially unwanted programs are distributed via downloaders/installers of other free applications. This illusive marketing method of pre-packing regular software with unwanted or malevolent additions is known as “bundling”. This occurs when people download a freeware from free file-hosting site like cnet.com, soft32.com, softonic.com, download.com, etc. and then perform careless installation process (ignoring terms, skipping steps and sections, using pre-set options, etc.).

The Quick or Recommended configuration settings usually don’t reveal the contents added to the software package. On the other hand, the Custom or Advanced options show all the apps and objects added to the software package. So, this is the installation settings that should be chosen to opt-out the components that rise suspicion or you don’t want to be installed. Moreover, rely only on official providers, trustworthy channels, and use direct download links for your software and products, and avoid using unreliable and free file-hosting sources, Peer-to-peer networks, and other third-party downloaders. But at the moment, you must remove Ads by PC Cleaner PUP from the machine as soon as possible.

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 Ads by PC Cleaner:

Remove the related items of Ads by PC Cleaner 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 Ads by PC Cleaner 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 (Ads by PC Cleaner) 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 Ads by PC Cleaner 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 Ads by PC Cleaner 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 Ads by PC Cleaner 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 Ads by PC Cleaner 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 Ads by PC Cleaner (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.