Web Shield - How to remove

Web Shield is an adware program that is known to infiltrate into computers bundled with a number of freeware applications, without asking users’ permission. It is a tool that says to enhance your browsing experience, but the truth is it seeks to get information about users’ browsing habits and, according to that, promote various commercial websites.

About Web Shield

Web Shield affects all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Once inside, it starts displaying various ads when you surf the Internet, especially when you visit shopping related websites, for example, Amazon or Ebay. The messages contain deals and offers to get discounts for the items you have been browsing about recently. Although this might look quite a useful service, soon you will notice that Web Shield ads get very intrusive and they disturb your browsing. What is more, once the adware is installed to your computer, it can spy on your browsing history and search queries. Tracking this information violates your privacy and it only means it can involve you into other marketing related activities.

Web Shield might be advertised as a program which will secure your online browsing, but actually, it won’t do it the way you would expect it. Since this is a free-of-charge program, it means that financial funds for this application to survive have to come from different places than users. For this matter, free software very frequently chooses to incorporate third-party advertisements into its deal. Unfortunately, such facilities sometimes distribute material that is not the most reliable. To speak more clearly, adware applications are not malicious on their own, but the external links and advertisements that they spread on the Internet might be contaminated with malicious codes.

If you notice that your browsing is interrupted by Ads by Web Shield, then there is a possibility that your device has been strongly influenced by an adware parasite. For the removal of such unwanted programs we offer to try to find in accordingly to our constructed manual guidelines or use an anti-malware tool to automatically detect Web Shield and remove it. Furthermore, such tools will find all of the threats that might jeopardizing your computer system.

Distribution Methods of Web Shield

To avoid ads by Web Shield, you should be more careful with your downloads from the Internet, as usually this adware comes together with free players, PDF creators etc. Some of the applications known to install this adware are DVDX Player 3.2, Fast Free Converter, Youtube Downloader HD, etc. Make sure you always follow the installation steps of new downloads and see what you are agreeing on before clicking the Next button. Reading Terms and Agreements also helps to find out what exactly you are going to get by installing one or another application.

Remove Web Shield from your computer as soon as you detect its ads on your system. You have to delete everything related to this adware from Control Panel first and then restore your browser settings. Below it is explained how to do it. Spyhunter is a tool which can help you get rid of malware and parasites like Web Shield and regain the control of your device.

Manual removal instructions of Web Shield

Using Control Panel to remove the main Web Shield 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 Web Shield 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 Web Shield from Internet Explorer

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

Removing Web Shield from Firefox

1. Enter about:addons in URL field.
2. Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Web Shield 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 Web Shield from Chrome

1. Enter chrome://extensions in url field.
2. Go through extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Web Shield. 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.

NOTE:

1. If you found an extension that can’t be removed from the browser, it has either to be removed from Control Panel or with antimalware programs (like Spyhunter, malwarebytes) or program uninstallers  (like RevoUninstaller).

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