What is AlleyBrowse?
AlleyBrowse is a malicious browser extension/add-on that pretends to be a safe app broadening browsing experience. It claims to combine the tools for online shopping, site reviews and delivery services. It gives great promises but doesn’t fulfill any of them. Instead of affording the user benefits, it attacks him/her with all imaginable types of advertisement. The pop-ups and banners are not the problem themselves. The problem is that they are difficult to avoid – they appear in great number and cause redirections to third-party websites, which sometimes happen to be malicious. To prevent further infection, you should completely remove AlleyBrowse.
How AlleyBrowse gets on your PC?
AlleyBrowse is widely spreading on the Internet with the help of agreements with other software developers. In exchange for fee they put AlleyBrowse into their setups in the likeness of legitimate app. Along with that they make two installation types: Default and Advanced. In the Default type everything is checked without user’s approval. To see the options of installation you should choose Advanced type and decline the software you don’t want to have on the computer.
How to remove AlleyBrowse from your computer?
To uninstall AlleyBrowse remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have AlleyBrowse in their database. You can try to use them for removing AlleyBrowse.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as AlleyBrowse.
You can try both of these products to remove AlleyBrowse
Or uninstall AlleyBrowse manually.
Step 1: Remove AlleyBrowse from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find AlleyBrowse.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find AlleyBrowse and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find AlleyBrowse, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate AlleyBrowse and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- Click on Uninstall to confirm.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
After that remove AlleyBrowse from your browser.
Step 2: Remove AlleyBrowse from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find AlleyBrowse.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose AlleyBrowse.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable AlleyBrowse.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of AlleyBrowse:
Remove following registry entries:
no information
Remove following files:
alleybrowsebho.dll
alleybrowseUninstall.exe
updatealleybrowse.exe
Remove following folders
\Program Files\alleybrowse