What is Pwieu.com?

Pwieu.com is a malicious page that causes a constant redirection to third-party sites with dubious content. The main goal of this threat is the distribution of advertising content in the form of pop-up ads, banners, coupons and much more. Pwieu.com is one of the potentially unwanted programs, which significantly reduces the performance of the browser and prevents the user during his browsing since advertising can appear at any time with different duration. Moreover, Pwieu.com redirects the user to third-party sites that contain malicious software, which can also penetrate your computer. We strongly recommend getting rid of Pwieu.com right now.

Pwieu.com comes to PC in various ways, most often by acquiring with third-party free programs and utilities that the user downloads from the network. Also, it can come as a false update for the program installed on your PC. In any case, you need to be more careful while installing and downloading programs. Carefully follow the installation process and pay attention to all the components of the installation package. If you need to remove Pwieu.com, then use our guides.

How Pwieu.com gets on your PC?

Like most such malicious software and adware, Pwieu.com comes bundled with free software downloaded from the Internet via special downloaders, installers, web clients and the like. The user must carefully monitor the installation process. Sometimes it’s easy enough to choose an extended type of installation and uncheck the unwanted item of the installation package. Also use paid versions of antiviruses to protect your personal data. If Pwieu.com has already penetrated your computer, then use our guides to remove this hijacker from your browsers.

How to remove Pwieu.com from your computer?

To uninstall Pwieu.com remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Pwieu.com

Or uninstall Pwieu.com manually.

Step 1: Remove Pwieu.com from Control Panel

Windows XP:

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

Step 2: Remove Pwieu.com from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Pwieu.com.
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 Pwieu.com.
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 Pwieu.com.
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: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Go to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 4: Remove following files and folders of Pwieu.com:

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Written by Rami Douafi