I wrote this article to help you remove Comumx.site. This Comumx.site removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

If you are experiencing redirects through the domain Comumx.site, your PC is under attack. This website is used by an adware program. The shady tool takes people to sponsored platforms. This is done for a monetary purpose. The owners of the supported websites pay for the promotional service. This online mediation concept is called the pay-per-click system. The practice is legal, given that certain rules and regulations are taken into account. The developers of the Comumx.site adware have failed to take the required security measures. The rogue tool does not scan the web pages it links to. Users are therefore exposed to security risks. Upon further inspection, IT experts have found that the Comumx.site adware poses a threat of its own. It breaches people’s online privacy.

The redirects can happen at any given point. The Comumx.site adware can break the connection with the sites you are viewing and redirect you to other domains. Another possible occurrence is for the covert program to show you advertisements. This will happen on a continuous basis. Ads will appear during all your browsing sessions. You will have to deal with constant interruptions and a delayed system performance. The process of generating the ad windows uses up a lot of CPU. This will cause your machine to slow down. It may become unable to process large data requests.

The inconvenience of working on a slow computer will be the least of your problems. The security issues will outweigh the minor annoyances by a long stretch. At first, you may not realize what the agenda of the Comumx.site adware is. You may not be aware where the ads are coming from. The furtive program will try to shift your focus to their contents, rather than the details surrounding them. The adware makes the ads stand out. It decorates them with flash animations, bright colors, cursive fonts, and other special effects. They will not have a stated source. These characteristics can help you distinguish them from the reliable advertising content you often come across on the web.

The Comumx.site adware displays different kinds of ads. The pop-ups are the most noticeable of the bunch. They are also the most intrusive. As their name suggests, pop-ups appear on top of the active browser windows. It is possible to click on them by accident. The other ad formats are more subtle. Interstitial, contextual, and inline ads resemble solicited content from licensed advertisers. These are the formats which reliable advertisers implement. As already stated, the difference is the lack of a source site. The more intrusive formats are floating and transitional ads. They cover part of the web page and follow the user’s scrolls. The Comumx.site adware attempts to acquire people’s interest with bargain offers for high quality goods. The proposed deals may be enticing, but they are not confirmed to be real. It is best not to follow them.

The other activity the Comumx.site adware conducts is to collect information on users. The covert program monitors people’s sessions and records data from their web browser. The information the Comumx.site adware can obtain includes your browsing history, tracking cookies, keystrokes, IP address, email, telephone number, geographic location, zip code, user names, passwords, and online account details. The owners of the rogue tool can sell your input on dark markets without asking for your permission. Your sensitive data can fall into the hands of cyber criminals.

We advise users to be cautious when working on their computer. In particular, when they use the Internet. Prevention is the best measure against malware you can take. The Comumx.site adware is distributed in a couple of ways. The predominant distribution technique is bundling. The secluded program can travel in a merged setup file with another application. The usual hosts are freeware, shareware, and pirated utilities. Traveling with another piece of software allows the Comumx.site adware to get installed without running its own setup wizard. This makes for a seamless install. To prevent the shady program from getting added to your system, you have to find the option for it. Be sure to read the terms and conditions of the programs you install to your computer.

The other way for the Comumx.site adware to gain access to your machine is through a spam email. The sender will make the bogus letter appear genuine. He will write a meaningful message on an important topic. There will be an attachment to the email, listed as a document. As you may have guessed, the file is the host for the Comumx.site adware. Filtering spam from genuine messages may require doing research. In many instances, spammers use the names of legitimate entities. They create fake accounts to lead people astray. The only way to be certain about the reliability of a given email is by checking the contacts.

Comumx.site Uninstall

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must perform to remove the hijacker from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Comumx.site from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.