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

Ampxchange.com is an advertising platform. The website promises to connect Internet users to the products and services they are interested in. As disclosed on Ampxchange.com, the owners of the domain partner with publishers and advertisers to identify and market against user intent. The service the platform offers looks promising. Having a single website show you shopping listings for all your needs would facilitate your online purchases. As convenient as this may sound, there is a catch. The service is associated to an adware program.

The shady tool chooses which content will be brought to the user’s attention. Research has shown that the adware does not scan the web for the best offers, as stated. Rather, the program links to supported websites. Most importantly, the sponsored domains do not go through a security check. Visiting them could harm your system, if they happen to contain malware. This is not where the threats end, as the Ampxchange.com adware poses a personal security threat with another task it conducts. The sinister tool records data from web browsers. It will gather various input from all browsing clients you use.

The adware behind Ampxchange.com displays different types of ads. Some of them are more obvious than others. The intrusive pop-up windows are among the first signs that you have an infection on board. Other symptoms include a degrade in the computer’s performance speed, unresponsiveness, freezes and crashes. The ad formats encompass a wide range of pop-ups, pop-unders, in-text links, freebies, coupon boxes, floating, interstitial, contextual, transitional, inline and comparison ads. The intrusive content appears on top of the active browser windows and tabs. The embedded formats will cover the web pages you are viewing.

The Ampxchange.com adware is persistent to get people to follow the ads because just showing them does not suffice. The owners of the furtive tool only get paid when an ad scores a click. They use a monetizing technique called the pay-per-click system. Users’ activity is detrimental for their success. Since people do not pay to receive shopping offers, their security is not taken as a priority. The ads involve a potential danger. They could lead to websites which contain malware. The rogue tool does not scan the platforms it links to.

As we already mentioned, the adware behind Ampxchange.com has the ability to extort personal data from the web browser. The furtive program follows users’ browsing sessions, recording their history, keystrokes and tracking cookies. This enables it to obtain private details, like user names, passwords and financial credentials. In addition, the adware collects the information the web browser stores per default. It records the computer’s IP address and geographic location. The input you have disclosed through your online accounts, like your email, telephone number, residency, demographic profile, full name and other personal details will also be accessed by the adware.

The Ampxchange.com website is for a fact not used for spreading the clandestine program. Several dark patterns are used to distribute the adware. The most common method is bundling. The secluded program travels in bundles with freeware, shareware and pirated utilities. The download client will include the adware as a bonus tool. The option will be listed in its terms and conditions. If you skip reading them and accept the default settings, the unwanted tool will be given access to your system.

Spam emails are another common host for the adware behind Ampxchange.com. The payload of the insidious program gets packed into a file and sent per email. The spam message will describe the attachment as a document. In many cases, spammers write on behalf of legitimate entities to throw people off. You can proof the reliability of an electronic message by checking which email account it has been sent from. Be advised that opening the containing attachment is enough to get you infected. The same is true for corrupted websites and links. Entering a compromised domain is all it takes to have programs like the Ampxchange.com adware transferred to your system. You should be careful about your sources.

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