How To Remove NoteIt Adware From PC

NoteIt: Step-by-step Delete Guide

Developers of NoteIt advertise it as an application that allows users to create self-destructing notes. It may sound like a useful tool, but in reality, it’s not as good as it is promoted. It is indeed a potentially unwanted program (PUP) categorized as an adware. It means that you should better stay away from this browser extension due to the fact that it seeks to perform several malicious activities, which typically serve for affiliate marketing. It promotes sponsored webpages, displays commercial contents, trigger intrusive redirects, accumulate some information about your web browsing habits, and so forth.

NoteIt Displays Annoying Adverts:

Although the creators of NoteIt claim that it’s a useful application, you should not believe that as it’s just a way to trick you into installing it. The majority of users who reported about questionable activities that this PUP implements complained that they have started obtaining “ads by NoteIt” after as soon as they installed other freewares, for instance, video streaming software or download manager. Soon after getting into the PC systems, this nasty adware initiates showing pop-ups, banners, offers, discounts, and other commercial advertisements just to get as many clicks on them as possible and earn maximum revenues for the creators via pay-per-click method.

Be very careful while having NoteIt in your work-station, as it gathers your web browsing history, IP addresses, geolocations, search queries, pages viewed, websites accessed, data entered, etc. It constantly sends the gathered information to third-party advertisers who generate personalized ads. As a consequence, you may receive multiple ads that are related to your recent searches and you may feel lured to click on them. Nonetheless, we strongly advise against interacting with NoteIt ads as you may be exposed to unknown online shopping sites or other malicious webpages.

Furthermore, data collected by this PUP may also include your personal info like credit card and banking details that can be misused by the scammers for making fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases and other deceptive purposes. And thus, presence of this notorious adware in your computer may lead to severe privacy issues, significant monetary losses, and even identity theft. Moreover, all the spiteful deeds carried out by this parasite consume too much amount of memory resources and drag down the overall PC performance severely. So, to avoid all these happenings, an instant NoteIt removal must be performed from the device.

Ways To Spread PUPs:

Software bundling is the method that adware and other unwanted apps developers mostly use to spread their malicious products. Freeware developers add additional programs in the installer of their applications in order to earn pay-per-install profits. While installing a program using the Quick or Recommended mode set after downloading it from popular site like soft32.com, download.com,. cnet.com, softonic.com, etc., users often find that several PUPs have been installed alongside the main software.

To avoid this happening, it’s very important to install free software carefully. Every time when you install free programs, select Advanced or Custom installation option and monitor the complete process cautiously. Make sure that you opt out of check boxes claiming that you accept to install add-ons or toolbars. Or else, you may be negatively surprised by a PUP and various inconveniences that it causes. But at the moment, you must remove NoteIt from the computer without wasting any time.

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 NoteIt :

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