How to Get Rid of SecuriDex (Adware Removal Guide)

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Apr 22, 2016
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SecuriDex seems to be a useful application claiming to help enhance users’ browsing experience and save their time & money by offering lots of coupons, deals, offers, promotions, discounts and banner ads when they are browsing online shopping websites. But the true is, this is a adware, also called potential unwanted program, that aims at attacking your browsers installed on the computer and you may help it improve affiliate with no intention. For that reason, this malicious add-on will collect personal data from browser including history, favorite, or cookies to send related advertisement to the PC users. Be advised that no matter how attractive 'Ads by SecuriDex' may appear, do not click on them, because these ads may be utilized to promote safe websites or not. Thus, you not only may be redirected to all kinds of unrequested stores, some ministrant websites, gaming portals, casino and other dubious websites where they probably mislead you into adding doubtful applications, such as virus or malware, but also probably get into a cheat if you succeed in purchasing something from it. If you want to save trouble, immediate removal of SecuriDex is highly recommended.

How Does SecuriDex Get Into your computer?

In genera, Programs like SecuriDex easily comes bundled with some free items that computer users can easily download from the internet, such as PDF creators, media players, videos, images, games and so forth. 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. We are not suggesting that you install any program that carries another freeware, so for the sake of opting them out, we will give you some useful tips. Be similar to other adware, it is also an online advertising platform created by adware or other unknown program to boost traffic and generate pop-up ads in order to obtain illegal benefits. Moreover, PC users should select Advanced or Custom installation mode and check options on the installation. In addition, pay more attention to those dubious check boxes which tacitly claim you agree to bring in add-on of this threat or other suspicious program. In order to make sure you have normal browsing operations and stay away from annoying programs, you may care about advices mentioned above.

How to Get Rid of SecuriDex fully?

SecuriDex adware will bring other threat to your computer to cause chaos and damage. Follow the manual removal to delete SecuriDex completely from the affected computer. If you are looking for useful solution to remove it, follow this guide to assist you to remove it from your computer.

1. Remove all SecuriDex related add-ons and extensions.

Google Chrome: Wrench Icon > Tools > Extensions

Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Internet Explorer: Tools > Manage Add-ons

2. Open Control Panel from Start menu; then find Folder Options and under View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK.

3. Find out and delete the files related to the adware.

4. Press Windows + R keys to open the Run window and then type in regedit to open Registry Editor.

5. Delete any registry entries associated with the adware.

How to Protect the PC From Such Unwanted Programs?

It is strongly recommended that computer users should be extremely careful while installing something. The programs should be downloaded from its official site. Once PC users have install the program, please check every items to avoid malware. Please read the information carefully while downloading and installing. Make sure that the software you are going to download is safe to download and install. 

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