What is Net Wiz?

Net Wiz is an adware that comes on your PC bundled with free downloads. Net Wiz gets into the computer without user consent, in the form of a browser extension. Net Wiz displays advertising content, such as banners, coupons, pop-ups, promotional links to ad websites and so on. Developers assure that this significantly reduces the cost of purchases and helps to save money. In reality Net Wiz is useless and very annoying. The adware changes browser settings (homepage and search engine). Net Wiz can also transfer your data to third parties, and analyze your browsing. This increases the traffic and slows down your browser, so you must remove it now if you find it on your PC.

How Net Wiz gets on your PC?

Programs, that are among the potentially unwanted programs come bundled with free software. Typically, such programs penetrate the PC without the user’s consent. Because of this, many users do not realize that a computer is infected with malware and the PC is at great risk. However, it is worth noting that the main reason for such penetrations – carelessness user. People do not read the terms and conditions during the installation of free software. It was there that may contain the consent to install PUP. Also, during the installation, ensure that the installer did not offer you a third-party software. To prevent such problems, you should always follow the installation process, read the terms and conditions, do not agree to install additional software, and select Advanced type of installation. If Net Wiz has already penetrated into your computer, you can use the instructions below.

How to remove Net Wiz from your computer?

To uninstall Net Wiz remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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

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You can try both of these products to remove Net Wiz

Or uninstall Net Wiz manually.

Step 1: Remove Net Wiz from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Net Wiz.
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 Net Wiz 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 Net Wiz, 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 Net Wiz 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 Net Wiz from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Net Wiz from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Net Wiz.
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 Net Wiz.
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 Net Wiz.
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 Net Wiz:

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi