Openadserving.com - How to remove

Openadserving.com is an advertising platform that is responsible for displaying numerous ads in computer while users are browsing the Internet. The program can affect these major browsers – Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you have noticed any popups that say they are brought by Openadserving.com, it means your system has been infected.

The program is installed to browsers by Trojan viruses, using most common malware distribution channels, such as spam emails with infected attachments, bundling the application to freeware, employing social engineering techniques where the end user is tricked she gets a legitimate software or an update, etc.   As the rule of thumb, the application gets inside system without a user’s knowledge. The purpose of Openadserving.com is to make money by generating traffic to affiliate websites and advertise specific products or pages. It causes tons of redirects which are not only annoying but they can also take you to infected or corrupted websites where you can get a malware or other dangerous threat.

Although Openadserving.com is not a virus itself, security experts advise removing it from your system as soon as you detect any of its ads. Go to Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstall it from there. Scan with Spyhunter as it identifies such programs quite well. You should also check browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you do not see Openadserving.com listed, you should use antimalware tools like SpyHunter and scan your computer with it. Uninstalling the program from your computer doesn’t change your search providers, it only stops ads appearing on your computer. You will have to do it manually by yourself. Depending on the browser you are using, follow the instructions below:

On Internet explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box.
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search Providers, on IE7 click Change Search Defaults.
3. Remove Openadserving.com from the list.

On Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page.
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.

On Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from list.
5. Go back to Settings. On Startup choose Open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too)

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