Remove One Click Privacy Adware From PC

Easy Steps To Delete One Click Privacy

One Click Privacy is promoted a useful tool that helps users to keep their online privacy secure. However, it is indeed a potentially unwanted program that should not be trusted. Once this nasty PUP successfully gets into the targeted computers, it starts serving annoying advertisements and interrupts victims’ web browsing sessions badly. It tries to gain users’ attention by displaying eye-catching offers, banners, deals, discounts, coupons etc. These ads are based on pay-per-click mechanism and earn profits for the developers with each click users make on them. The more number of hits PUP creators get on these adverts, the more income they generate.

Depth Analysis of One Click Privacy:

One Click Privacy allows people to scan their devices for malicious objects which may affect their privacy. Nonetheless, users will have to first purchase its licensed version to allow it remove any of the found items. It’s not a free program. You will have to pay money for its registration. Even if you purchase the licensed version, the program will not detect any real issues. It only produces fake scan results to deceive people into installing recommended application that could be other PUP or more dangerous malware.

Ads by One Click Privacy often include sponsored links and redirect users to third-party websites that are trying to increase their popularity and gain more visits. With each redirection, it makes commission for the developers. However, it’s not necessary that all these sites are harmless and safe to visit. You might be also taken to web pages that are filled with malicious contents and end up with getting more notorious parasites in the machine. At some domains, you are presented with fake security alerts, error messages, update notifications etc. and then tricked into installing rogue software.

One Click Privacy PUP has ability to track users’ web activities such as pages they visit, links they click, search queries they type etc. It gathers all their personal and confidential data relating to banking and credit card details and exposes those stuffs to cyber criminals for evil motives. Your sensitive information could be misused by the scammers for deceptive transactions or purchases that might lead to huge financial loss for you. And hence, a quick One Click Privacy removal is highly required.

Threat Summary

Name: One Click Privacy

Type: Adware, Potentially unwanted program, Push notification virus

Short Description: Displays annoying pop-ups ads, makes changes to default browser’s settings, Redirects users to affiliated domains, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online revenues for the creators.

Symptoms: Numerous annoying pop-up ads, pop-up messages, identity theft. Users are enforced to visit hijacker’s website and search the Internet using their search engines, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), Deceptive emails, malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool is recommended.

Infiltration of One Click Privacy:

The main method that PUP developers use for the distribution of their malevolent apps is the software bundling. In this technique, multiple components are added in a single package all together, so users get the whole package installed when they don’t pay enough attention to details. The ‘Quick’ or ‘Recommended’ configuration settings don’t reveal the objects that are included to the package which also manage to intrude the device along with the carrier program. When you download software via untrustworthy sites and third-party installers and then install it using these options, you may end up with infecting your system with PUP.

How To Prevent Adware Intrusion?

It is highly important to be very careful while surfing the web to avoid unwanted installations. You can control such behavior by opting for the source of freeware more wisely and selecting the Advanced or Custom installation settings during any download from the internet. This is how you unpack the bundle and can be sure that suspicious, useless tools are not installed automatically. Moreover, you should never click on any suspicious ad or hyperlink as they may take you to potentially infectious domains that host malware. But at the moment, you must remove One Click Privacy from the device 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 One Click Privacy:

Remove the related items of One Click Privacy 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 One Click Privacy 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 (One Click Privacy) 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 One Click Privacy 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 One Click Privacy 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 One Click Privacy 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 One Click Privacy 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 One Click Privacy (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.