How to Remove unTabs Thoroughly?

Posted by Emily B.
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Jun 22, 2017
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Do you often receive annoying ads from unTabs when you are online and take a long time to wait for your browser to respond? Don't know how to stop those ads from popping up on your browsers? You have come to the right place. This post will provide an efficient way to wipe out this adware problem completely.

unTabs is an adware program that belongs to PUP infection. It disguises itself as a useful application that can provide you with multiple services and products to help you improve your computer and save much time. This adware can be installed on many commonly-used web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as a browser add-on or extension. A variety of nettlesome ads, such as web banners, paid search, text ads, coupons and multi-media ads will occupy your screen. In addition, this adware has the ability to monitor web users browsing activities, track their browsing history, and even collect their precious data stored on the target computer. This involves the security of victims privacy and property. ?Furthermore, Clicking on these advertisements by mistakes will redirect you?to unfamiliar web pages which contains adware or malware infections.

How Did You Acquire the Malware?

Free online resources: You possibly get the adware via some freeware on the Internet since the adware or spyware can be contained inside the free programs. If you think all the online free applications are safe for use, you are likely to get the adware from the Internet.

Accessing malicious websites or the legitimate websites that have been compromised: If you visit unsafe websites or illegal sites, you may get Adware or PUP on your computer. Especial some porn or prohibited websites which you shouldn't visit.

Attacking PC users by using spam E-mail attachment: Adware or PUP process can be hidden in the attachment or links of the spam emails. If you don't pay attention to them, your computer may be infected once you click on those unknown attachments or links.

Using outmoded security software: If don't have your antivirus updated to the latest version, Adware or PUP can easily make inroads on your computer. Some other malware or viruses are able to invade to your computer with ease.

How to Remove the Adware from Your Computer?

We now all know that unTabs will display tons of pop-up ads on your browser to interfere your online surfing. Moreover, it may gather your personal data by tracking your browser cookies, so that it can deliver more customized ads to you. Therefore, we strongly suggest that you should delete this adware as soon as possible. You can refer to the instructions below to remove the adware manually.

Method1: Reset your browser settings to defaults.

For Internet Explorer
Click Tools-> Go to Internet Options-> Click Advanced tab-> Click on Reset button
For Mozilla Firefox
Click Firefox-> locate Help option-> Go to Troubleshooting Information-> Click Reset Firefox button
For Google Chrome
Click the wrench icon-> Click Settings-> Click Show Advanced Settings link-> Click Reset Browser Settings

Method2: Reset all Group Policy objects using Command Prompt.

Open the Command Prompt by pressing “Windows Key + X”, and click on “Command Prompt (Admin)” to open it in Administrator mode.

In the Command prompt type (or copy/paste) the following commands:
Type:
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
Press Enter.
Type:
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
Press Enter.
Type:
gpupdate /force
Press Enter.

The “Installed by enterprise policy” permissions will now be removed from Chrome, and you should be able to remove the unTabs extension.

Attention

unTabs is able to update itself and change its features, which make it not easy to delete its files completely in manual way. If you want to eliminate it for good, you'd better choose an automatic removal tool like SpyHunter to do a thorough scan for your computer and remove all threats completely.

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