What should I do if advertising starts when the browser starts?

The modern Runet increasingly begins to resemble the bench of some oriental merchant, to which a potential buyer is often pulled against his will by persistent barkers. On each page, a dozen banner banners are flickering and pouring a minimum, and to find useful and informative articles in which there would be no advertising links, and at all practically not real.

But all this is trivial in comparison with the situation when the launch of the browser opens ads. Instead of the usual start page, you will have to contemplate a bunch of advertising waste paper, which does not bear any meaningful weight. What is the reason for this, how can this be overcome?

Causes of appearance

Typically, such an attack overtakes users who like to install free and shareware programs without looking at the "Next" button. In this case, they are almost guaranteed to receive in the load some kind of advertising module from Mail.ru or "Iambler".

In addition, if in your browser there are no toolbars from these "wonderful" companies, but the browser still opens any "left" page, this may indicate the infection of the computer by some trojan or similar "evil spirits".

What to do, if the launch of the browser opens ads? First of all - do not panic! All this can be eliminated.

Looking for the culprit

To accustom the browser to an adequate appearance, you will have to find the root of all troubles. Consider this for the example of Firefox and Google Chrome, as they are currently the most common.

So, in the "Flamel" you should click on the settings button located in the upper left part of the monitor. A working window opens, in which there is an item "Add-ons". Click on it with the left mouse button, then you will see a list of all plug-ins installed in the browser. Look for something suspicious among them.

Since we already talked about the advertising modules from Mail.ru and Yambler, first try to find any items in which these names are found. However, look at the start page itself: if the Yandex advertisement is launched when the browser starts, look for its plugin.

To delete them, you need to click on the icon with the garbage bin icon. After that, restart your browser. Then you need to go to "Settings / Basic" by clicking on the same button. In the last tab ("Basic") there is an "Start" item. With it, you can easily register the address of the page that you really want to see when you start the browser.

Often when you run Firefox, you open an advertisement after you accidentally click on the button "Make a startup" on some questionable site. Typically, the usual change of this page in the settings is quite enough, since additional modules such portals are installed infrequently.

Google Chrome

In this program, everything is almost the same. Only to go to the settings you need to click on the button located in the upper right corner. Go to Tools / Extensions. Similarly, find and remove all the more or less suspicious plugins and restart the browser.

To change the start page, go to the "Settings" tab, where there is an "Initial group" item. Using its settings, you can also change the browser settings to normal.

We continue cleaning

If even after all the activities carried out when the browser starts advertising, there is a clear infection of the machine with malicious Adware. To cope with it, the manual mode is no longer enough.

In the case when there is no normal antivirus on your computer, it's time to install it. To avoid possible infection already at the stage of installing security software, we recommend that you scan the computer beforehand using the Dr.Web utility.

Is there still a spontaneous launch of a browser with advertising? In this case, you can recommend completely uninstalling the program using the utility Revo Uninstaller Pro. Using the "Delete" button and the "Advanced Scanning" mode, you can completely eliminate the browser with all "prizhivalam".

After that, you download the installation kit from the official website of the manufacturer and completely re-install the program. Important note! If you own several computers and Chrome synchronizes between them, be sure to perform this operation with each of them, otherwise the advertising modules will appear again.

How to avoid the appearance of garbage?

As you know, the best treatment is always and in all cases is prevention. To prevent the fouling of your browser advertising junk, you must follow some simple rules.

First, always use the antivirus, unless you are running from under the Linux operating system. Secondly, to visit the sites, install the WOT extension, since it will immediately indicate the reputation of the resource, warning at its low status.

Finally, when installing any program, use the "Advanced Mode", as it will avoid the installation of advertising junk.

So you also found out why advertising appears!