Remove Adf.ly from Chrome/Firefox/IE – Best Guide to Get Rid of Adf.ly Hijacker

In the last few days, the Adf.ly redirect pop-up has appeared on my browser about 5 times. I use Chrome, but I also have IE, Firebox, and Safari installed. I have not used these other browsers frequently enough to know if Adf.ly has infected them too. I have run an AVG AntiVirus Free scan twice, and it has not caught Adf.ly. How do I remove it? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

Brief Introduction of Adf.ly

Once you find adf.ly keeps popping up to your browser, your computer might infect with an adware or potentially unwanted program. Actually Adf.ly is also deemed as an adware or a browser hijacker that is often used by the cyber criminals to generate web traffic or earn money from computer users. It is often distributed via infected software, hacked or corrupted websites, or other malware. Once infiltrated, it will bring you a series of troubles.

Commonly, Adf.ly can affect many popular web browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. It can redirect your browser to its sponsored websites or other suspected websites. Besides, it will even change a lot of your browser settings, leaving your browser homepage changed without your permission. What’s worse, adf.ly will even cause other serious problems, such as poor PC performance, blue screen of death, system crash, financial loss or even identity theft etc.

Effective Guide to Remove Adf.ly from Chrome/Firefox/IE

The appearance of Adf.ly indicates a series of troubles to your computer. The following page will offer some guides to help you remove all of the troubles.

Method 1: Manually Remove Adf.ly
Method 2: Automatically Get Rid of Adf.ly with SpyHunter

Method 1: Manually Remove Adf.ly

Step 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together and stop Adf.ly or browser processes in the Windows Task Manager.



Step 2. Uninstall Adf.ly from Control Panel

For Windows Vista and Windows 7

1. Press the “Start” button.
2. Select “Control Panel” from the menu.
3. Choose “Programs & Features”.
4. Find “Adf.ly” in the list of installed programs.
5. Select it and press “Uninstall” or right-click the program and select Uninstall.

For Windows XP and other Windows operating systems

1. Press the “Start” button.
2. Select “Control Panel” from the menu.
3. In the Control Panel, select “Add/Remove Programs”.
4. Find “Adf.ly” in the list of installed programs.
5. Select it and press “Uninstall”.

 (Optional Step) Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):

Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.

Step 3. Remove unwanted add-ons from web browser.

Internet Explorer

Go to Tools >> Manage add-ons >> Toolbars and Extensions >> Remove items related to Adf.ly.
Move to Search Providers >> select  items related to Adf.ly and remove it.

Google Chrome

Go to Customize and control Google Chrome (top right menu) >> Tools/Settings >> Extension >> Remove suspicious extensions

 

Reset your settings on On startup >> Set pages, Appearance >> Change, and Search >> Manage search engines...

 

 Mozilla Firefox

Open menu >> Add-on >> remove items related to Adf.ly

 

From Menu >> Option >> General. You can rewrite your home page URL or Restore to Default

Step 4. Restore home page and clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

• Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options"
• Click the "Under the Bonnet" tab, locate the "Privacy" section and Click the "Clear browsing data" button.
• Select "Delete cookies and other site data" and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

• Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
• Click "Remove individual cookies"
• In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"
• To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie button"
• To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies button"

Internet Explorer:

• Open Internet explorer window
• Click the "Tools" button
• Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"
• Tick the "cookies" box and then click “delete”
  

Step 5. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.



(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).



(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below (search command by Run).

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step 6. Delete related malicious registry entries.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )



Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

 Method 2: Get Rid of  Adf.ly with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is powerful anti-spyware/malware application. It is created to help inexperience computer users to get rid of nasty and stubborn malware including adware, browser hijacker, trojan, worm and may other viruses. There are many features in SpyHunter. You will never regret to remove malware and protect your PC with this application.

You can click the icon below to get SpyHunter.

 

This real-time malware protection and removal tool offers free malware scanner. You can buy the removal service to get rid of all the PC threats detected by it. It has powerful features that other free antivirus cannot offer. 

 

 

 

Optional Suggestion: Regcure Pro - a wonderful Registry Cleaner

If you find some registry errors, such as dll file errors in your computer, Regcure Pro will be a good choice to quickly and powerfully clean your windows registry and protect your system files.

(Reference) Watch Relevant Video to Remove Adf.ly 

 
 

Final Tip：

Adf.ly can cause a lot of troubles. Usually, the manual tips above may help your get rid of it. But if you fail, you can download powerful remover to get rid of it.