What is Bronze Aid?
Bronze Aid with no doubt can be ranked as a Potentially Unwanted Program and an adware that is annoying, nevertheless not dangerous. It totally depends on the revenue from third-party websites, which it tries to promote. Bronze Aid description claims to broaden the user’s online shopping experience by collecting and displaying valuable information on special offers, discounts and coupons. It should be admitted that it fulfills this part of promise, but in an unpleasant way: the offers will be too many and the collected information may be of a private type. In addition, the ads are fake and have nothing in common with the vendors. Since there is no reason to use the add-on, you should remove Bronze Aid to stop it from collecting the sensitive data and generating intrusive ads. Learn how to remove Bronze Aid ads from browsers.
How Bronze Aid gets on your PC?
As many other adware programs Bronze Aid is distributed in a stealthy manner. While downloading freeware, users rarely expect side applications to be inserted into the setup and credulously accept the terms of installation without reading. This approach is likely to end in getting a malware like Bronze Aid. To make the system safe from this and many others pieces of adware, cancel the default installation of additional software in Advanced setup settings. You can also use Norton to remove Bronze Aid from computer and protect from similar infections.
How to remove Bronze Aid from your computer?
To uninstall Bronze Aid remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Bronze Aid in their database. You can try to use them for removing Bronze Aid.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Bronze Aid.
You can try both of these products to remove Bronze Aid
Or uninstall Bronze Aid manually.
Step 1: Remove Bronze Aid from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Bronze Aid.
- 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 Bronze Aid 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 Bronze Aid, 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 Bronze Aid 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 Bronze Aid from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Bronze Aid from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Bronze Aid.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Bronze Aid.
- 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 Bronze Aid.
- 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 Bronze Aid:
Remove following registry entries:
no information
Remove following files:
f374d042-c756-455b-b11b-e79fb030c4fe.dll
firefox@www.bronzeaid.com.xpi
Uninstaller.exe
Remove following folders
%PROGRAMFILES%\Bronze Aid\