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

Traffic.getmyads.com is an advertising network, as the URL address hints. If you are expecting to browse through an archive of ads when you visit the website, you will be disappointed. The domain will return a 404 page not found error. There is some shady business around Traffic.getmyads.com. Security experts have managed to unravel the scheme. The domain was revealed to be a pawn of an adware program. The shady tool has an agenda and it will not hesitate to exploit you to fulfill it. The purpose of the adware is to make proceeds. This is the goal of the unnamed developers. They do not take users’ best interests into consideration. The rogue utility could breach your security.

As we alluded to, the creators of the adware behind Traffic.getmyads.com are unknown. They are keeping their identity a secret for a good reason. Since the website does not list an end user license agreement, a privacy policy, or any other binding terms, they are not legally responsible for users’ security. This means that the entire burden of the risk falls on your shoulders. You will have to cope with the problems on your own. The best course of action is to have the adware removed from your computer.

You can spare yourself the potential dangers if you take measures to block the covert program from entering your system. The Traffic.getmyads.com adware often travels merged with unlicensed tools, like freeware, shareware, and pirated copies of paid applications. The clandestine program will be included with the main utility as a bonus. If you skip through the installation steps in haste, you will allow the adware into your system without realizing it. It is best to avoid unconfirmed sources, like peer-to-peer networks, torrent clients, and unlicensed software distribution platforms.

The Traffic.getmyads.com adware also uses spam emails as a means of transportation. The sinister program can get transferred to your machine through a single click. The sender can automatize the transfer, using a code, a macro, or another technique. We advise you to proof the reliability of your messages before accessing attachments. Check the available contacts. Keep in mind that spammers often write on behalf of legitimate organizations, like the national post, courier firms, e-commerce platforms, social networks, banks, and government institutions. The letter may seem legitimate. The best clue for filtering spam from genuine notifications is the email address. A spammer would write from a fake account.

The Traffic.getmyads.com adware uses marketing tricks to attract users’ attention and acquire their interest. The shady tool generates advertisements in different formats, including banners, freebies, coupon boxes, in-text links, transitional, inline, contextual, floating, comparison, and interstitial ads. The adware decorates the windows with colorful patterns, cursive fonts, flash animations, and other special effects to make them more noticeable. The adverts promote bargain deals for miscellaneous products, like clothes, furniture, accessories, technological devices, decorations, sports gear, games, gardening equipment, and many others. Some of the proposed offers may coincide with your recent searches and your online purchases. This is because the insidious program spies on you.

The Traffic.getmyads.com adware can obtain various details through the web browser. This includes the user’s browsing history, IP address, geographic location, email, telephone number, demographic details, user names, passwords, and other sensitive data. The rogue tool uses the applicable input for marketing purposes. Be advised that the ads it displays come from unconfirmed sources. A click on a random pop-up could redirect you to a corrupted website and get your system infected with malware. Worse still, the owners of the Traffic.getmyads.com adware can sell your private information on dark markets. Your personal and financial details can fall into the hands of cyber criminals.

Traffic.getmyads.com Removal

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you know how to do this, 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.

Please, follow the steps precisely to remove Traffic.getmyads.com 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 Traffic.getmyads.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.