Ad Choices is adware program designed for displaying advertisements illegally in victim’s computer. Ad Choices is able to be installed into your computer with some other free downloads, shared files, or other unfamiliar software on the Internet. Usually, when you get some program installed into your computer, you generally do not pay attention to each step of the process, and just skip all over it. Besides, hackers can put some malicious links on websites like pornographic sites, fishing sites and other unsafe websites. As long as you click the link, lots of malicious programs including Ad Choices will be downloaded into your machine.
Without your authorization, Ad Choices can randomly add lots of applications, plug-ins, and other things into your browser, popping up annoying information in front of your computer when you start a new tab. Besides, if you unconsciously click the ads displayed by Ad Choices on your computer, your browser will be redirected to another immediately. Meanwhile, this Ad Choices can also affect the performance of your computer. The longer Ad Choices stays in your computer, the slower your computer perform speed will be.
So, there has no reason to hesitate. You should get start and take efficient measure immediately to kick this program out of your computer as quickly as possible. Follow my post, and I will show you a detailed instruction about how to manually remove Ad Choices step by step.
Ad Choices removal instruction:
Before performing the manual removal of Ad Choices, reboot your computer and before Windows interface loads, press F8 key constantly. Choose "Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.
1. Launch the Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time, search for Ad Choices processes and right-click to end them.
2. Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.
3. Tap Windows+R keys together to pop up the Run box, type in regedit and hit OK to open Registry Editor; then find out the following Ad Choices registry entries and delete:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Search_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Search Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
4. Get rid of the listed files created by Ad Choices:
%AppData%\<random>.exe
Suggestions for your to prevent virus infections in the Future:
1. Pay attentions to those free programs on the Internet;
2. Do not visit those dubious websites;
3. Remove malware programs from your computer;
4. Clean up those spam emails in your email inbox;
5. Do not insert any suspicious removable drive into your computer.
Video guide on adware removal issue:
Note: Ad Choices is really malicious which should be removed from your computer as soon as possible. After reading this post, if you still can not handle this issue alone, you can contact our Tee Support experts 24/7 online.
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