How to Remove Amulesw Adware (Chrome/Edge/Firefox)

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

If you feel that you are drowning in a sea of ads by Amulesw, you are not imagining it. You have adware on board. This malicious program is designed to bombard you with tons of ads, pop-ups and alerts. It starts as a minor issue which can be ignored, but given time, this application can cause some irreversible damage to your machine.

There is a potential danger in the ads displayed by the Amulesw adware. To gain revenue, the adware uses the so-called pay-per-click mechanism. Almost all big engines use such a method, however, unlike them, the Amulesw adware does not check what is being promoted. This means that anyone willing to pay can use the software to promote unlicensed or even illegal products and services. Furthermore, the Amulesw adware creates an ad-layer, which forces ads on websites that are ad-free. This layer can hide all competitors’ adverts. You won’t be able to see what else is being promoted. You will only see what the malicious program allows you to see.

Some of the ads displayed by the Amulesw adware may be malicious. Such ads can redirect you to infected websites. There, a drive-by download may distribute a virus to your computer. Such downloads execute without the user’s permission and are almost completely invisible. For those reasons, it is commonly used by cyber criminals for malware distribution. Don’t risk your computer’s security, delete this intruder ASAP!

Remove Amulesw Adware
The Amulesw Virus

You may think that if you don’t click on ads everything will be okay. Well, not clicking on ads may be harder than you think. The Amulesw adware will trick you into clicking on ads unintentionally. It will open pop-up windows right under the cursor of your mouse. Every time you open a link, one or more additional tabs will open in your browser. Pop-ups with fake close buttons will interrupt your normal browsing all the time. Eventually, you will click on an ad. Not to mention how unresponsive your computer will become. The adware works on your CPU and uses a lot of RAM. Not only will it slow your machine down to a crawl, it will cause your system to freeze and crash frequently.

Dealing with the Amulesw adware, you may have noticed that all displayed ads have something to do with your interests and needs. This is not a coincidence. The malicious utility is constantly spying on you. Yes, that’s right. It monitors your online activities and sends the data to its owners. Those people can do whatever they want with this information, including selling it to third parties. And anyone can be the buyer. It can be some desperate marketing agent or it can be a dangerous hacker. Don’t forget that the Amulesw utility monitors everything you do. Your credit card details, user names and passwords can be a part of the data. Can you imagine what a capable hacker can do with such information? Therefore, if you suspect that your computer is infected with adware, track it down and delete it on the spot!

You must be wondering how did the Amulesw adware infect your machine. It tricked you into installing it. Yes, you did it. These types of applications need the user’s permission to operate. However, developers have found ways to mislead the user into giving such permissions. They would hide the adware in the installation file of some legit freeware or shareware. The user can find it if they choose the advanced installation method. The deception starts here. The developers would describe this type of installation as suitable for IT experts only. While in reality, it is suitable for everyone. There is nothing advanced in the custom method. The only difference between it and the suggested standard installation is that only under it can the user see all extra apps and deny their installation.

Other distribution methods are spam emails, torrents and corrupted ads and links. Scammers are very imaginative nowadays. They tend to write emails on behalf of some popular organizations. Our advice to you is to make sure you know who the sender is before opening the letter. If you received an email from an organization, go to their official website. Find the contact section and compare the email address written there with the one you have received a letter from. If they don’t match, delete the email immediately.

Amulesw Adware Removal

STEP-1 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.
Safe Mode with Networking
For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌
Windows 8 Safe Mode with Network
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.
win10 safemode 1
While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.
win10 safemode 2

STEP-2Here 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.
firefox extensions
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).
chrome extensions

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.
ie gear
Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

STEP-3

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

ff shortcut

STEP-4

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

appwiz

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

STEP-5

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

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.

STEP-6

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

msconfig

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

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

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