PCfeeds.com

What is Adware? Adware is a computer program which automatically play the advertisement. The advertisement can be played in a pop up window, on the browser, or special toolbar. In fact, the adware is harmless for your computer, but we still don’t want to see many advertisement while running program.

There’s a question: we don’t download any adware software, why does it exist on our computer? You may download the adware without knowing it. The adware may be packaged with other free software. So when you download other software, the adware is still downloaded by you. It is installed automatically while you run other program. Adware can gather infomation about users’ habits and interest and send it out through a background internet connection. Though the adware is not dangerous, users still want to remove it.

To remove the adware, you can use some anti-adware software. It is easy. Some users decide to remove it manually. Deleting adware manually can be very simple, just follow these steps.

1  From the “Start” menu, select “Settings” and then “Control Panel.”

2 Double-click the “Add/Remove Programs” option.

3 Select the adware program and click “Remove.”

4 Restart your computer to allow all changes to take effect.

5 Press Ctrl and Alt together and then Del to bring up the Task Manager window if the Control Panel procedure in the preceding steps does not successfully remove the adware from your computer.

6 Select the “Processes” tab.

7 Scan the list of processes that are running on your computer to identify any adware. “System” and “System Idle Process” are not programs that you need to worry about as being adware. To find out whether a process is adware or not, determine what the process does by looking it up in a process library such as the Uniblue webpage listed in the Resources section.

8 Select each adware process and click “End Process.”

9 From the “Start” menu, select “Search,” “Files or Folders” and “All Files and Folders.” Enter the name of the adware file, which will usually be an EXE or COM file, exactly as it was listed in the Task Manager window.

10 Delete the file or files returned by the search.

11  Restart your computer for all changes to take effect.