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How to remove Ads By Awesome-Promos virus

Myantispyware team September 28, 2015    

Ads By Awesome-Promos is a new adware that some antispyware software detected as Win32:PUP. As well as other unwanted programs this adware modifies your personal settings such as browser’s home page and default search engine.

Ads By Awesome-Promos

In addition, “Ads By Awesome-Promos” adware installs malicious add-on that will display various advertisements all the time while you are using the Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Common symptom of Ads By Awesome-Promos infection:

  • excessive pop-up ads on your screen that signed with Ads By Awesome-Promos
  • ads on sites where it has never been;
  • Internet may be slow;
  • antivirus detects infections that are signed with PUP.

How does a computer get infected with Ads By Awesome-Promos adware

Most likely, you’ve recently downloaded some free software, a link to which you found through a search engine. In fact, you have not downloaded the program itself, but its installation package. The Ads By Awesome-Promos adware is a part of it. So, read term of use and user agreement very carefully before installing any software or otherwise you can end up with a Ads By Awesome-Promos or other adware software on your PC.

How to remove Ads By Awesome-Promos ads and popups

Step 1. Uninstall Ads By Awesome-Promos.
Step 2. Remove Ads By Awesome-Promos adware with AdwCleaner.
Step 3. Scan your computer with Malwarebytes Anti-malware to remove Ads By Awesome-Promos associated files and registry keys.

Step 1. Uninstall Ads By Awesome-Promos.

Click Start button windows start buttton then Click Control Panel.

You will see a window like below.

windows control panel.jpg

 

Click Uninstall a program ControlPanel Uninstall

It will open a list of all programs. Scroll down, select Awesome-Promos and click Uninstall. Most important, scroll through the all list, and uninstall any unknown programs.

termcoach uninstall

Follow the prompts.

Step 2. Remove Ads By Awesome-Promos adware with AdwCleaner.

Download ADWCleaner from here and Save it to desktop. Once finished, you will see a icon like below.

adwcleaner icon

Double click the ADWCleaner desktop icon. Once this tool is started, you will see a screen like below.

adwcleaner screen

Press Scan button to perform a system scan. Once ADWCleaner has finished, it will open a scan report as shown below.

AdwCleaner

Review the report and then click Cleaning button. It will display a prompt.

adwcleaner prompt

Click OK. When the cleaning process is finished, ADWCleaner may ask you to reboot your computer.

adwcleaner reboot

When your PC is started, you will see an ADWCleaner log.

adwcleaner report

Step 3. Scan your computer with Malwarebytes Anti-malware to remove Ads By Awesome-Promos associated files and registry keys.

Download MalwareBytes Anti-malware (MBAM). Once downloaded, close all programs and windows on your computer.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware setup file  icon

Double-click on the icon on your desktop named mbam-setup.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware installation
This will start the installation of MalwareBytes Anti-malware onto your computer. Once installation is complete, you will see window similar to the one below.

Malwarebytes scan now

Now click on the Scan Now button to start scanning your computer. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.

mbam

When the scan is finished, make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click Remove Selected button. When disinfection is completed, you may be prompted to Restart.

Your system should now be free of the Ads By Awesome-Promos adware. If you need help with the instructions, then post your questions in our Spyware Removal forum.

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