Best Way to Remove Ghostify from Your PC

Ghostify claims that it is a useful tool that is able to provide users with the latest coupons, deals, bargains, discounts and other information associated with shopping when they visit shopping sites and enhance their browsing experience and save their both money and time. But in fact, it is an adware program or potentially unwanted program used to deliver many customized ads to you, so that it can help promote particular products and generate advertising revenue. As a result, concentrating on offering you various ads, this threat may try to your related information, such as search terms, URLs visited, clicks, data entered, and other non-personally identifiable data, etc. PC users should not click any sites provided by this adware since no one knows whether those sites are safe or not. As a result, PC users will be redirected to other malicious sites like game, porn, casino, shopping, or other unsafe sites frequently, PC users will be even cheated if they want to purchase something on those unsafe webpages. However, don¡¯t fall for its trap and take immediate and thorough action to remove Ghostify from your computer before further damage and data loss.

How Does Ghostify Arrive on Your PC?

Adware programs like Ghostify can infiltrate users¡¯ machines with ease, for they often hide in freeware and shareware that have been downloaded from the Internet. Users¡¯ carelessness during the installation of such freeware tends to open a door for the adware programs to get into their computers. It should be note that most adware programs are added into installation folder of freeware and take the chance to get installed on users¡¯ computer without any knowledge. It¡¯s not clever for you to bring in any program bundled with target freeware, therefore, here we offer you some help tips to clear them away. To begin with, you should carefully read the license agreement before installing a program on your computer. Then, you should select Advanced or Custom installation mode when asked to choose the installation modes you prefer. Furthermore, you should keep an eye on those dubious check boxes saying that you agree to install unknown plug-ins or applications. Or else, you may suffer from various problems caused by those unwanted programs.

How to Remove Ghostify Thoroughly?

Ghostify is a type of dangerous computer threat to your system. With its help, cyber criminals can filch your sensitive information easily. This guide will help you remove this malicious adware from your browser and computer completely.

Step 1: Remove the Ghostify related programs.

Windows XP
Go to Start, navigate to Settings and click on Control Panel, navigate to Add or Remove Programs, choose Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and hit Remove.

Windows 8
Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Settings on Charms bar and go to Control Panel. Select Uninstall a program and remove the adware related programs.

Windows 7/Vista
Go to Start, navigate to Control Panel, select Uninstall a program/Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and click on Uninstall.

Step 2: Remove the adware related add-ons from the browsers.

Internet Explorer
Open IE and go to Tools or gear icon in IE9 and then to Manage Add-ons.
Select add-ons related to Ghostify or other which you find is unknown to you and remove it.
Restart IE.

Mozilla Firefox
Open Mozilla Firefox & click on Tools from the top menu.
Now go to Add-ons and select the unknown extensions from the list related to the adware.
Remove them by selecting and clicking on Remove button.
Restart the browser.

Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome, click 3-Horizontal Bar icon at the top left corner.
Now go to Tools and then Extensions.
Search for extension exact or similar to the adware and delete it by selecting and clicking Trash icon next to it.
Restart the browser.

Step 3: Remove all Ghostify related files and registry entries.

Go to the Local Hard Disk C to find out and delete any adware related files from your computer.
Click the ¡°Start¡± button and choose the ¡°Run¡± option. Type ¡°regedit¡± in the ¡°Open¡± field and click the ¡°OK¡± button. Then the Registry Editor will open. Then, find out and delete the adware related registry entries.

How to Prevent Malware Infection?

It is strongly recommended that computer users should be extremely careful while installing something. Downloading target programs from their official sites is recommended. Once PC users have install the program, please check every items to avoid malware. And limit user privileges on the computer. Make sure that the software you are going to download is safe to download and install.