How to Remove High Stairs Adware From Your PC Easily?

Do you suffer ads on your browser provided by High Stairs adware? You cannot find out why your browser runs slowly? High Stairs adware should be the mail reason that causes these problems. PC users need to remove this adware completely to stop annoying ads. Don’t know how to do? Learn more from this post.

What is High Stairs?

High Stairs belongs to an adware program (also known as potentially unwanted program), which will be able to attack the browser when PC users download malicious programs or processes. The cyber criminals will spread out this virus infection by attaching to free programs so that PC users may be infected without their notice. In general, this adware will act as a useful program which can provide service to PC users. However, its real purpose is to display related ads and guide PC users to purchase something on its site. Once it is installed, it will modify settings on the targeted browsers immediately. It will display various types of ads like sponsored links, coupons, deals, banner ads, pop-unders or interstitial ads frequently while going online. Just like other kinds of adware, High Stairs also keeps collecting users’ information so as to serve more ads by their online activities. It will trace and track cookies, history, favorite and other personal data and send to the hijackers. Thus, this adware needs to be removed completely without any hesitation.

What Will High Stairs Do?

1. It will finish its installation without PC users’ notice.

2. It is able change your desktop icons and browser’ setting stealthy.

3. It shows a lot of ads and useless information on your PC.

4. It keeps redirecting PC users to visit other malicious sites or webpage.

5. It collects and sends personal data to the cyber criminals.

How to Remove High Stairs from Your Machine?

All you need to do is to remove this adware completely from your computer in order to stop those annoying pop-up ads and other threat. You can use a anti-virus program to fix this problem or follow the manual removal guide below.

Step 1: Launch Task Manager by pressing the keys CTRL + Shift + ESC at the same time. Click on “Processes” tab and start looking for processes related to High Stairs.  Select them one by one and clicking on the “End Process” button to stop them from running.

Step2. Remove High Stairs related program.

For Windows XP

Click on Start button > Select Control Panel > Click on Add/Remove Programs > locate any adware related program > Click on Remove button.

For Windows 7/Vista

Click on Start button > Select Control Panel > Click on Uninstall a Program / Programs and Features >Find any suspicious program > Click on Uninstall button.

For Windows 8

Move the mouse pointer to the right side corner > select Search > search for “control panel” to get Control Panel > click on Uninstall a Program > locate any unwanted program > click on Uninstall button.

Step 3: Remove add-ons related to the virus from the infected web browsers.

Internet Explorer

Click on “Tools” and then select “Manage add-ons”.

On Toolbars and Extensions, remove the adware from your browser.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on “Tools” and then select “Add-ons”.

On Extensions and Plug-ins, remove the adware from your browser.

Google Chrome

Click on the Wrench or 3-bar icon.

Click on “Tools” and select “Extensions”.

On Extensions tab, remove the adware from your browser.

How to Avoid Adware Infection?

In order to prevent your computer from being attacked, PC users should be cautions while installing unknown programs or executable processes. It is suggested that PC users should select Advanced or Custom installation option so that they can check every additional application during the installation process. Besides, PC users should not open any unknown E-mail attachment unless it is proved to be safe, for his adware infection can attack the infected computer by these attachments. What is more, PC users need to be careful when clicking links, or any other items that they are not familiar with.