Zwangi - How to remove

Zwangi is and adware that changes your browser’s performance by displaying tons of annoying pop ups and ads, interrupting your normal activity. The applications gets into computers bundled with freeware and shareware applications. It is rarely seen by the user before the installation. This happens because the users don’t always pay enough attention to the installation steps when downloading various programs. Zwangi is downloaded automatically together with the program it is bundled with.

The first symptoms warning that you have got this adware on your computer are constant ads related to a variety of things displayed on your computer. In addition, Zwangi installs a browser helper object to your browser which enables the program to record the information about your browsing habits and send it to the remote server where this data is used to bring various targeted ads and marketing purposes. Finally, the program alters your homepage and default search engine without your permission.

You should remove Zwangi from your computer immediately after its detection on your system. Go to Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstall it from there. You should also check browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and remove it from there. If you do not see Zwangi listed, you should use antimalware tools like Spyhunter and scan your computer with it. If you had redirecting issues, you might need to reset your home page and search engine to the one you used before:

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 Zwangi 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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