What is Ouo.io?

Ouo.io is advertisement campaign, that is usually distributed to millions of users computers or smartphones. The main aim of such campaigns – to show a large amount of advertisement in most popular web-browsers. Advertising networks firstly try to promote their ads in search engines on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge, and Safari, so annoying pop-ups, banners, show-boxes may be shown in every new tab of your browser. Also, Ouo can insert an advertisement into notifications from different sites. We think that such type of advertisement may be considered as a virus: ads banners are usually promoted by different sites without permission. If you wish to remove Ouo.io Ads from your browser, please read our article below.

How Ouo.io gets on your PC?

If we consider the scheme of penetration into the computer, then it will be similar to a similar threat. Ouo.io comes from different malicious sites. For example, a user may download a link from these sites, but in fact, receives an installation package that contains malicious elements as additional program components. To avoid such cases, you need to closely monitor the installation process, do not install suspicious components and elements, as well as use special programs that can prevent the penetration of such threats. If you have already found Ouo.io on your browser, then use our recommendations to remove it.

Recommended Anti-malware tools:

The easiest and most modern way of removing hijackers, pop-ups, trojans, ransomware or other viruses is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

Also, you can try to remove Ouo.io manually. For uninstalling Ouo.io remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and registry keys.

Step 1: Remove Ouo.io from Control Panel

Windows XP:

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

Step 2: Remove Ouo.io from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Ouo.io.
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 Ouo.io.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Press Settings and more button
2. Choose and Click on Extensions
3. Find Ouo.io extension and click settings
4. Press Uninstall button
5. Start Edge again

Learn more about removing extensions from Edge.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Ouo.io.
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 Ouo.io from Android:

Alternative solution for Android phone/tablet:

Google Chrome:

1. open the Chrome app.
2. To the right of the address bar, tap More.
3. Choose and open Settings
4. Tap Site settings and then find Ouo.io.
5. Turn of Ouo.io from Allowed to Block.

Written by Tim Kas