Note that many websites have their own advertising, unrelated to adware.
Adware is any software application in which advertising is displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen and sometimes through text links or in integrated search results. Adware may or may not track personal information. It may also gather information anonymously or in aggregate only. Users should check the EULA and Privacy policy to ensure if the adware on their machines conforms to their standards.
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This will also redirect your searches. Installs a toolbar with Internet Explorer.
Manual
removal:
After downloading, installing or using the Software, you may remove this application at any time from the computer on which the Software resides. Please see the application below that you are looking to remove and the corresponding uninstall directions:
Toolbar/Search Utility - Go to your computer?s "Control Panel" and open the "Add or Remove Programs", click on "Change or Remove Programs". Look for the name of the Toolbar or Search Utility that is located on your browser, then click on the program and then click the "Remove" button to remove the program.
WinDirect - Go to your computer?s "Control Panel" and open the "Add or Remove Programs", click on "Change or Remove Programs", clicking on the program called "WinDirect"**, and clicking the "Remove" button to remove the program. ** Please note that this program may be labeled as either "GSIM" or "GSIM Uninstaller" in your Control Panel.
eXpand Search - Go to your computer?s "Control Panel" and open the "Add or Remove Programs", click on "Change or Remove Programs", clicking on the program called "eXpand Search", and clicking the "Remove" button to remove the program.
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