How to Remove Serpens? - Adware Removal Guide

Description of Serpens

Serpens belongs to a potentially unwanted adware infection. It claims that it is a free tool that helps enhance your web browsing experience. Once this adware has been installed to your computer, Serpens will target on special offers and coupons, comparison shopping, and many other additional features for its malicious purpose.

Different kinds of browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will be infected by this adware while it can be added as a browser add-on. The time it enters your computer, your will receive a serious of pop ups related to the sites you are visiting. You may see the ads brought by the adware including banner ads, video ads, pop-up ads, sponsored links, pop-uders or interstitial ads, etc.

PC users may agree to give their consents to display all those third party ads and allow the third party to collect or use the personal information like cookies, history, or secret files if this adware keeps staying in the infected computer. Whenever you run your browser and start a new page, you will see various ads in the forms of photo, button, pop-up, e-mail and horizontal column.

Serpens shares victims' non-personally identifiable information with advertising partners to improve the performance and relevance of product. Serpens is created with advanced technology that is able to automatically update new functions and optimizations. It is not a malicious malware but PC users should remove the PUP completely from your computer to keep your machine safe.

How Did Serpens enter your PC?

Usually Serpens will come bundled with free programs from the internet such as media player, java and other applications. PC users may install those adware accidentally when they try to install the programs downloaded from Internet. Therefore, you should always keep an eye while download and install programs on your computer, and you should firstly choose the Advanced or Custom installation, or you will have other unknown programs installed on your computer system.

How to Remove Serpens from Computer Manually?

From the above we can see Serpens is a malicious application. If your computer has suffer this adware infection, It is suggested that you should wipe it out as soon as possible. You can follow elaborate guide below to get it off from your computer now.

Step1. Remove Serpens related programs.

For WindowsXP
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 >locate any suspicous 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 2. Remove unwanted add-ons added by Serpens.

Internet Explorer:
Start the IE browser.
Click on "Tools" and navigate to "Manage add-ons".
On "Toolbars and Extensions", find out and disable the questionable add-ons.

Mozilla Firefox:
Open the Firefox browser.
Click on "Tools" and select "Add-ons".
On "Extensions" and "Plugins", find out and remove/disable the suspicious add-ons.

Google Chrome:
Launch the Chrome browser.
Click on the Wrench icon, select "Tools" and go to "Extensions".
On "Extensions", find out and delete the unwanted extensions.

Note: Manual removal requires certain level of virus removal. We don't recommend using the manual removal method, if you are not experienced in computer operation. It is quite risky to delete the registry entries of the adware by hand and any mistake may lead to serious consequences to the system. If the files of the adware can't be eliminated fully, it may be able to come back over and over again. Thus, automatic removal tool will be safer for virus removal.

Guide to Automatically Remove Serpens

Here are many removal tools that can help you automatically remove Serpens as SpyHunter, STOPzilla, Malwarebytes Anti Malware.? A reliable removal tool is able to automatically detect and delete all traces of the adware from your computer within clicks of mouse.