Detailed
Description of Gifter
Gifter belongs to a potentially unwanted adware
infection. Usually, it gives you a false impression that it is a useful
application that helps enhance your browsing experience. Once this adware has
been installed to your computer, Gifter will target on special offers and coupons,
comparison shopping, and many other additional features for its malicious
purpose. This threat tends to be treated as a browser add-on to be introduced into your computer, especially your web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Once installed this adware will create countless ads based on the website PC users are visiting. Now this malicious adware program will display sponsored links, coupons, video related ads, banner ads, or others.
If you let this Gifter program on your computer and use it, you may agree to give your consent to display all those third party ads, and give access to third party to monitor your online browsing activities and gather your precious data stored on the browser. If you don’t remove this adware from your computer, you will keep receiving all sorts of needless ads almost on every webpage that you browse.
Gifter is able to collect your personal online data and share them with the advertisers, and that is the reason why you always receive so many ads matching your interests. It is created with advanced technology that is able to automatically update new functions and optimizations. Though it is not kind of virus, it still does harm to your computer so it should be delete from your PC.
How
can This Adware Attack Your PC?
Gifter comes into
your computer by bundled with applications that you can free download from the
Internet; for examples, video players, download managers, and system utilities.
If you download and install online software on your computer, the adware may be
downloaded and installed in the same time. For example, when you download and
install these free programs from Internet PC users may get Gifter adware and
other unknown processes installed together if they just keep click on the I
Agree or Accept button during the whole installation setup.
How
to Erase Gifter Manually?
As we mentioned
above, Gifter belongs to a high-risk PUP program. You’d better erase it without
any delay once the computer is attacked by this adware. Here is the manual
guide that you can follow.
1. Remove the
related program.
For Windows
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.
2. Remove the
related add-ons from your PC.
Internet Explorer:
Find and click
Tools in your browser, then select Manage add-ons.
Click Toolbars and
Extensions.
Find the adware
related add-ons in the list and select Disable.
Google Chrome:
Open your browser,
type chrome://extensions/ in the address bar of your browser and press Enter.
Find the unwanted
add-ons in the list and delete them.
Mozilla Firefox:
Open your browser.
Find Tools button
and click on it, then click Add-ons.
Find the unwanted
add-ons in the list and disable/remove them.
3. Find out and
remove the files associated with the adware.
4. Open registry
editor: Click “Start” menu, hit “Run”, then type “regedit”, click “OK”. When
Registry Editor open, search and delete registry entries related to the adware.
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