What is Monarch Find?
Monarch Find is adware and browser add-on for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Its malicious activity consists in displaying advertisements, pop-ups, discounts and coupons. Mostly this happens on shopping sites. Sidebar ads may contain promotional materials. Ads are named as “Related Search by Monarch Find”, “brought by Monarch Find”, “powered by Monarch Find” or simply “Ads by Monarch Find”. You should know that this adware is not related with the sites its ads are shown on. Read the guide below to remove Monarch Find from your PC.
How Monarch Find gets on your PC?
Monarch Find installer runs silently, during install process of freeware. Free utilities, unfortunately, nowadays, are the source of infection. Developers of adware like Monarch Find pay developers of free software to install their product. Monarch Find in its turn earns on users clicks on its ads. There are two ways to avoid this. Be very attentive during installation of any program on your computer, or use special protection software. Norton anti-malware is able to remove Monarch Find and protect you from adware threats on a regular basis.
How to remove Monarch Find from your computer?
To uninstall Monarch Find remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Monarch Find in their database. You can try to use them for removing Monarch Find.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Monarch Find – files, folders, registry keys.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Monarch Find.
You can try both of these products to remove Monarch Find
Or uninstall Monarch Find manually.
Step 1: Remove Monarch Find from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Monarch Find.
- 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 Monarch Find 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 Monarch Find, 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 Monarch Find 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 Monarch Find from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Monarch Find from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Monarch Find.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Monarch Find.
- 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 Monarch Find.
- 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 Monarch Find:
Remove following registry entries:
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Remove following files:
MonarchFindBHO.dll
updateMonarchFind.exe
Remove following folders
C:\Program Files (x86)\Monarch Find
C:\Program Files\Monarch Find
Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov