Melondrea - How to remove

Melondrea is a really annoying adware that once installed starts to display tons of advertisements. Designers of Melondrea promise that this program will enhance your web browsing experience by simplifying navigation on various websites. Well, this is not true and all that you will get instead of a better browsing is ads that will be irritating you. In addition to that, your personal data like browsing history, search queries, IP address, approximate location and similar info will be recorded by the application. This info can be transferred to the third parties later on in order to improve the relevance of their ads and make them more engaging to you. And this is the formula how Melondrea makes money – it generates traffic and collects sales leads. If you see ads displayed by Melondrea, do not click on any of  them because they will redirect you to the third parties websites which may be infected. These ads can come in a lot of various forms, such as in-text, interstitial, transitional, search-related, and pop-up ads. The tool is listed as a PUP (potentially unwanted program) and can be detected by most anti-malware programs. I think this is heavy-weight facts why you should not consider keeping it on your computer.

It’s not surprising that this program is very sneaky and can get onto your system bundled with other software. In this case, you need to be especially careful when installing something downloaded from the Internet for free. Always opt out for a custom or advanced install mode and do not skip any steps as this could lead to installing unwanted applications. If your computer is already infected with Melondrea and you would like to get rid of it, we recommend scanning your PC with a trustworthy anti-malware like Spyhunter or malwarebytes which remove this malicious app automatically. In case you would like to perform this manually, try to follow our removal guide given below.

Using Control Panel to remove the main Melondrea components and installers

1. Go to Control Panel. On Windows XP/Vista/7 open Start -> Control Panel , Add/Remove Programs or Uninstall . On Windows 8 enter Control Panel in the search box, then look for Uninstall a program. You may need to confirm that you are the administrator on this PC, in both cases.
2. Look for Melondrea and /or similar looking items on the list of programs. By default, I recommend removing Yontoo, WebCake, anything “savings” or “coupon” related. Scanning with Anti-Malware programs like Spyhunter or Stopzilla might give a good idea of what programs you should remove from there as well.
3. Close Control Panel.

Removing Melondrea from Internet Explorer

1. Press on the Wench icon->Manage Add-ons.
2. Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Melondrea and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
3. Close the Options.

Removing Melondrea from Firefox

1. Enter about:addons in URL field.
2. Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything %NAME% related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe probably you do not need it.
3. Optionally, reset Firefox: go to Firefox ->Help (Help in menu for OSX users) -> Troubleshooting Information. Then Reset Firefox.

Removing Melondrea from Chrome

1. Enter chrome://extensions in url field.
2. Go through extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Melondrea. If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
3. Restart Chrome.
4. Optionally, you can enter chrome://settings in URL bar, press Advanced settings, scroll to the bottom of the list and press Reset browser settings.

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