How to Remove Advantage Adware

Media Advantage is an Adware program that comes bundled with other programs and does not advertise that it is installing itself on your computer. It monitors the programs you run and Internet searches you conduct, and then launches pop up ads to get you to buy products online. To remove the Media Advantage Adware program you first must prevent it from running on your computer and then find and delete all of the files it has installed in different locations on your hard drive.

Instructions

1. 

   Open your computer's task manager window by pressing the "Ctrl," Alt," and "Delete" keys at the exact same time and then click on "Open Control Manager." Click on the "Processes" tab at the top right corner of the window.

2. Arrange the list of programs that are running on your computer alphabetically by clicking on the "Image Name" button. Look through the list of programs and find the one labeled as "Media.AdVantage." Click on the entry and then click on "End Process" button to stop the Media Advantage program from running in the background.

3. 

   Open the Start menu and then click on the search box. Type in the phrase "advuninst.exe" and then hit the Enter button to run the search. Wait for the file to appear in the list of search results and right-click on it. Choose the "Delete" command from the menu that will pop up to the right of the entry.

4. Perform a new search for the file "ffext.mod" and delete it. Repeat the process for the other Media Advantage files which are named "advantage.exe," advantage.html," "advantage.cch," and "advantage.db."

5. Return to the search box and type in the word "Regedit." Double-click the name of the Regedit program when it appears in the search results area. Wait for a new window to appear on the screen and then bring up the Find box by pressing the "Ctrl" and "F" buttons.

6. 

   Type in the phrase "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\appid\{69e0089f-28bc-4bb5-862b-e2b07c3b83c6}" in the Find box and hit the Enter key. Right-click the registry entry when it appears and choose the Delete option.

7. Repeat the registry file deletion process for the entries named "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{602d9049-b4ac-4a25-bf75-a9b54d747cba}," "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{5ac3a9ef-c0f8-41d4-b4e2-b7cebb794151}," "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{f6e4845d-1d13-4bc0-942d-b9191524cc48}," "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{862def42-89aa-49fa-ae1f-8a84b1b08a17}," "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{dabf362d-d442-4402-9208-ca9ed70dd01e} ," "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\advantage," "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run advantage," and finally "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run advantage."

Tips & Warnings

• If you don't close the Media Advantage program in the Task Manager, you won't be able to delete its associated files.

• Registry files are critical to the operation of your computer's operating system, so make sure to make back ups of all of your important files before deleting any of the registry entries in case you delete the wrong one.

Resources

• Microsoft Registry Changing Support Website