Eliminate Ad by Advertise Permanently – How to Get Rid of Ad by Advertise from Chrome/FF/IE?

Hi there, I seem to have some sort of MALWARE (Ad by Advertise) that I just cannot get rid of. It only seems to be affecting Chrome as best I can tell. I have tried Avast, Malware Bytes, AdAware, ADW, Chrome Clean-up Tool & totally uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome....At this point I am at a bit of a loss on how to fix this. Malware Bytes is blocking whatever (sometimes bdt.femurssculler) it is from opening ads in new tabs now, but I don’t seem to find the root of the problem...

What is Ad by Advertise?

Ad by Advertise is an adware program that is usually injected onto the compromised web browsers and showing up like this:

This kind of adware often claims to improve its users’ online experience but actually causes interruptions by displaying a lot of tricky pop-up ads, banners, or in-text ads with the byline “Advertise Ad”, “Brought by Advertise”, “Ad by Advertise”, or “Powered by Advertise”. These ads are created to generate web traffic for its sponsored websites or gain pay-per-click revenue. Please don’t click these ads otherwise you will get some annoying rediections or download unwanted or even malicious programs to your computer.

This kind of troublesome adware is often distributed via free downloads. Once installed, it may add some suspected extensions to your browsers or add ad-support programs to your Programs. If you want to get rid of this adware, you should clear away them completely. However, according to the feedback of some users, there is nothing standing out in the programs and processes. In this case, you might do more steps to complete the removal or just use a powerful anti-malware program to fix all the issues.

How to Remove Ad by Advertise from Chrome/FF/IE?

Method 1: Manually Remove Ad by Advertise Step by Step
Method 2: Automatically Get Rid of  Ad by Advertise with SpyHunter
Optional Method: Optimize Your PC with RegCure Pro

Method 1: Manually Remove Ad by Advertise Step by Step

Step 1: Reboot your PC into Safe Mode with Networking

Restart your computer and keep pressing F8. Select Safe Mode with Networking by using the up and down arrow key in your keyboard.



Step 2: Delete suspicious or malicious process related to Ad by Advertise.



Step 3: Remove suspected programs from Control Panel.

Press Win & R on your keyboard to open Run. Type in "control" to open control panel and then select Uninstall a program/Program and Features. Search PUP/Malware from the list and remove it.

 

Step 4. Remove unwanted add-ons from web browsers.

Internet Explorer

Go to Tools >> Manage add-ons >> Toolbars and Extensions >> Remove unwanted suspected items
Move to Search Providers >> select unwanted suspected items 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 unwanted suspected items

 

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

Step 5. 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 6: Show hidden folder.

Go to control panel >> Appearance and Personalization >> Folder Options



Tick "show hidden files, folders and drives" like the picture below.




Delete from local disk.

%AppData%\<random>.exe
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe

Step 7: Delete infected or additional registry entries.

Press Win & R  to open Run, type in "regedit" and hit enter. Click Edit >> Find... to search unwanted keys

Method 2: Automatically Get Rid of  Ad by Advertise 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 Method: Optimize Your PC with RegCure Pro

RegCure Pro's malware scanner finds active malware and kicks it off your machine. If you also 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.

Final Tip：

Ad by Advertise 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.