What is Direct Web Links?

Direct Web Links is an adware that hijacks popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. After penetration, the program starts to bother a huge amount of advertising pop-ups (banners, coupons, links to ad sites, and so on). This ad can appear at any time during your browser. The main task of the developers – this is to get you to make unnecessary purchases. This program can significantly reduce the performance of your computer, increase traffic and transfer your personal information and browsing history to third parties. If you find a program Direct Web Links on your PC, then you urgently need to remove it from your computer.

How Direct Web Links gets on your PC?

Malicious software that is often among the potentially unwanted programs penetrates a computer with other free programs such as archivers, players, editors and so on. This happens without the user’s knowledge. The main reason for this – the user carelessness. Few people read the user agreement and other information during the installation. Sometimes ad sites create their download managers and hide therein potentially malicious software. If you want to prevent the infiltration of unwanted software, then you need to follow a few rules. Always read the user agreement. Select the advanced type of installation and make sure that you aren’t offered to install something to supplement. Do not agree to install unfamiliar software. You can also use special programs that will help you to protect your PC. If your PC is already infected, then use our instructions to get rid of Direct Web Links.

How to remove Direct Web Links from your computer?

To uninstall Direct Web Links remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Direct Web Links in their database. You can try to use them for removing Direct Web Links.

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You can try both of these products to remove Direct Web Links

Or uninstall Direct Web Links manually.

Step 1: Remove Direct Web Links from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Direct Web Links.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Direct Web Links and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Direct Web Links, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Direct Web Links and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. 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 Direct Web Links from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Direct Web Links from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Direct Web Links.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Direct Web Links.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Direct Web Links.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Direct Web Links:

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi