How to Get Rid of Adware Viruses

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Noah. And today I'm going to tell you about how to get rid of Adware viruses. If your computer is running a bit slowly. And you get lots of pop-up windows of advertisements. When you're surfing the Internet. Chances are, you're infected with one of several Adware viruses. If your computer is already heavily infected with Adware viruses. Then a good place to start is by downloading a free Adware removal program like Spybot Search and Destroy. This can be found at www.SafeNetworking.org. And is free to download. Another one of these free Adware removal programs is Ad-Aware, available from Lavasoft. You can download this program at Lavasoft's website at www.Lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php. If you already have an anti-virus program, though. A lot of anti virus programs these days take care of Adware viruses, as well. You can also get an anti virus program for free. Such as Avast anti virus. Finally for future safety, it might be a good idea to update your web browser. And get a more secure browser like Firefox for example. A lot of anti virus programs these days, also offer you additional protection on your surfing the Internet. For example, AVG which is a free anti virus program. Offers Safe Search which tells you when you search on a search engine. If the search is all safe to go on or not. With a little green arrow or a red X. This helps you to know, what websites are safe to go on. And what websites may get more Adware on your computer. If you click on them. Also if you, yourself see a website is being suspicious. It's better just to avoid it."