What is Traffic Exchange?
Traffic Exchange – a program that comes bundled with freeware without user consent. Traffic Exchange installed on your computer in the form of an extension to the browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer). Traffic Exchange is advertising product, because this program is constantly annoying user by intrusive advertising. Traffic Exchange displays banners and coupons, links to other sites and advertising. These pop-ups contain offers online stores in which the program promises to help you save money. In fact, most of these offers are not true. The main objective of Traffic Exchange – to get you to spend money. Also, Traffic Exchange modifies browser settings, reduce the performance of your PC and so on.
How Traffic Exchange gets on your PC?
Similar programs belong to potentially unwanted programs. These programs come on a computer without the user’s consent, so you may have overlooked the penetration of this program. PUP is installed on PC bundled with freeware program such as archivers, download managers, players and so on. The user must be considerate during the installation process to prevent the penetration of unwanted programs. To do this, you need to read the user agreement. Do not agree to install unknown or suspicious programs. Not need to trust programs from unknown publishers. Always follow the installation process and do not rush to click “Next”. If your computer is already infected, you can use our instructions listed below to get rid of Traffic Exchange.
How to remove Traffic Exchange from your computer?
To uninstall Traffic Exchange remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Traffic Exchange in their database. You can try to use them for removing Traffic Exchange.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Traffic Exchange – 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 Traffic Exchange.
You can try both of these products to remove Traffic Exchange
Or uninstall Traffic Exchange manually.
Step 1: Remove Traffic Exchange from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Traffic Exchange.
- 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 Traffic Exchange 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 Traffic Exchange, 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 Traffic Exchange 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 Traffic Exchange from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Traffic Exchange from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Traffic Exchange.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Traffic Exchange.
- 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 Traffic Exchange.
- 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 Traffic Exchange:
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Written by Rami Douafi