Top10answers.com Ads - How to remove

Top10answers.com is a small search engine. It is not dangerous, however, it is also unhelpful and can expose you to ads for adware and browser hijackers. Seeing ads for Top10answers.com is a symptom of an adware infection, probably a browser extension. To stop the Top10answers.com ads, you just need to find the browser extension that’s responsible for injecting ads into your webpages or messing with your browser.

In short about Top10answers.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Top10answers.com ads work	Ads for Top10answers.com show up in internet search results, many ads lead to other adware sites.
How adware gets installed	Bundled with free programs, advertised online.
How to stop ads for Top10answers.com	Uninstall suspicious programs and browser extensions, look for malware with an anti-malware program (Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others).

Problems with Top10answers.com

Search engines are websites that search the internet and return relevant results according to your query, with Google and Bing being the most popular ones. Top10answers.com is a functional search engine, although it does lack a lot of essential features, such as date and result type filtering.

The problem with Top10answers.com is not just that it lacks many important features. On top of that, Top10answers.com advertises and is advertised by adware, browser hijackers, and other dubious search engines. Seeing Top10answers.com regularly is a symptom of an adware program being installed on the browser or the computer.

Top10answers.com’s ads link to the search results of other search engines, like Pricesnow.com, Answersite.com, Kensaq.com, Zapmeta.com, Info.com, Ask.com, and many others. Those search results are either for a different version of your search query, or something completely unrelated, even nonsensical. Each of the linked results page is filled with more advertisements. In fact, Top10answers.com regularly shows more ads than search results (10 results, 11 ads, with the ads taking up more space and using bigger font size).

In other words, ads on Top10answers.com lead to sites that show more ads that lead to sites that show more ads. This is an advertising scheme that is controversial and has been banned by multiple reputable advertising companies (for example, Google considers that sort of thing to be “abusing the ad network:). It’s a waste of time and screen space.

Top10answers.com is made by Ask Media Group, the company behind Ask.com, a search engine that used to be pretty popular. Also, this company is closely related to Mindspark, the company behind all the Myway.com browser hijackers. So it’s not out of character for Ask to show advertisements in a potentially unethical way.

How adware works

Seeing Top10answers.com on your screen regularly is a symptom of adware. It could be that you installed a browser that uses shady monetization tactics and injects ads into your webpages. Or maybe you installed an adware program that changes the settings in your web browsers.

A browser extension is a very likely culprit. One way to check an extension is to read all of its permissions. For the browser extensions to show ads for Top10answers.com, here are the permissions that they might use:

• Read and change your data on Google.com, Bing.com, or all websites. This would allow a browser extension to show their own ads with your internet search results.
• Change your default search engine. This allows browser extensions to control what happens when you search the internet from your address bar.
• Change your new tab page. A lot of people use their new tab page to search the internet, so some browser hijackers try to replace it.

Some other ways that adware can be installed is by being bundled with free programs or advertised online.

How to stop Top10answers.com ads

You need to open your browser settings and carefully review your list of installed browser extensions. Do not ignore any of them just because you trust them. It is common enough for good-quality browser add-ons to be transformed into adware once they gather enough users. You can always disable an extension temporarily and then check if the Top10answers.com ads go away. If they do, the extension that you just disabled must have been responsible.

Besides reviewing your programs and browser extensions manually, you can also scan them with an anti-malware tool, like Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, or another program that you trust. Browser hijackers are usually recognized by these programs as Adware and PUPs.

To remove them, uninstall the extensions yourself or use the anti-malware program.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving Top10answers.com Ads from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Top10answers.com Ads. Click on the trash bin icon next to Top10answers.com Ads or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Top10answers.com Ads, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Top10answers.com Ads from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Top10answers.com Ads 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 then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Top10answers.com Ads, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Top10answers.com Ads from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Top10answers.com Ads. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Top10answers.com Ads or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.