How To Remove ePedia Adware From PC

ePedia: Complete Uninstall Steps

ePedia is a malicious piece of software endorsed as a useful tool, providing easy access to Wikipedia. Which means users can access to Wikipedia- a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia, directly from the desktop. Unfortunately, the service that it offers is not worth encountering multiple issues and troubles that it may additionally cause during your online sessions. Security experts have categorized it as an adware and a potentially unwanted program (PUP), which basically means that it may infiltrate your targeted PC systems secretly bundled with other freeware applications and start displaying sponsored advertisements.

ePedia Shows Ads In Various Formats:

If you interact with a bundled freeware and unintentionally install ePedia along with all attachments, first of all, it may hijack your web browsers (Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and browsers) and start displaying banner ads, pop-up ads, in-text links, full-page ads, and other intrusive forms of advertisements informing about various coupons, deals, discounts, and other shopping-related things. Each of these commercial material poses a risk to your system’s security That’s because it’s not clear which of them are connected with trustworthy pages and which contain third-party links to suspicious or even malicious websites.

Therefore, it’s better that you avoid all ePedia redirects by ignoring advertisements without any resulting in other malware infections, causing slowdowns and similar issues. Nonetheless, none of the users is aware of the fact that this unwanted program may also collect personally non-identifiable information (search queries, websites visited, links clicked, geolocation, IP address, clicks, etc.) in order to adjust search results and ads according to your interests. These details are shared with third-parties who can use it for marketing and other means. Moreover, if scammers could get access to your personal data like credit card and banking information, they can misuse those details for making deceptive purchases and transactions.

ePedia alters the settings of Windows registries by making vicious entries in it which allows the PUP to get automatically activated with each system reboot. It may trigger many other spiteful issues in your work-station like hard drive crash, software failure, data loss, boot errors, application malfunctioning and so on. This notorious adware keeps performing evil deeds in the background all the time which consume enormous amount of memory resources and drag down the overall PC performance severely. And hence, an instant ePedia removal is highly required.

How Does ePedia Intrude Your System?

While installing free applications, you might notice suggestions to install recommended programs alongside. Such components are usually shown in an unclear way or hidden so that user’s do not notice them. Typically, they appear somewhere in the bottom of the check box and are written in a very small font. Additionally, note that check boxes that offer to install add-ons, plug-ins, toolbars, or extensions are always pre-selected. Hence, if you do not pay close attention to the installation process of free applications, you can miss such propositions and carelessly install this and similar-type programs.

You should beware that Quick or Recommended installation mode does not reveal a presence of attachments at all. So if possible, you should always opt for Advanced or Custom installation and follow the complete installation process cautiously in order to opt-out unwanted additions. Otherwise, you may start noticing pop-up ads, unwanted redirects, and other things that may interrupt your browsing sessions and pose harm to your system. If it has already taken over your web browsers, you should follow instructions below and remove ePedia from the system as early 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 ePedia:

Remove the related items of ePedia 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 ePedia 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 (ePedia) 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 ePedia 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 ePedia 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 ePedia 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 ePedia 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 ePedia (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.