What is Windows Net-Clean?
Windows Net-Clean – a program that installed on your computer in the form of an extension to the browser. Windows Net-Clean hijacks Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The main objective in this program – the dissemination of advertisements during your browsing. As soon as you open your browser, Windows Net-Clean starts to display advertising banners and hundreds of coupons that can be related to popular online stores, such as eBay, AliExpress, Walmart and so on. These pop-ups can occur at any time. Windows Net-Clean constantly annoys the user. Windows Net-Clean shows the “best” deals online stores, discounts and the like. Most of these offers are not true. Also, Windows Net-Clean adds entries to the registry, slow down your computer significantly reduces performance. If you find that your computer is infected with this program, you will need to remove Windows Net-Clean immediately.
How Windows Net-Clean gets on your PC?
Malicious software that is often among the potentially unwanted programs penetrates a computer with other free programs such as archivers, players, editors and so on. This happens without the user’s knowledge. The main reason for this – the user carelessness. Few people read the user agreement and other information during the installation. Sometimes ad sites create their download managers and hide therein potentially malicious software. If you want to prevent the infiltration of unwanted software, then you need to follow a few rules. Always read the user agreement. Select advanced type of installation and make sure that you aren’t offered to install something to supplement. Do not agree to install unfamiliar software. You can also use special programs that will help you to protect your PC. If your PC is already infected, then use our instructions to get rid of Windows Net-Clean.
How to remove Windows Net-Clean from your computer?
To uninstall Windows Net-Clean remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Windows Net-Clean in their database. You can try to use them for removing Windows Net-Clean.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Windows Net-Clean – files, folders, registry keys.
*Trial version of Norton provides detection of computer viruses for FREE. To remove malware, you have to purchase the full version of Norton.
Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Windows Net-Clean.
You can try both of these products to remove Windows Net-Clean
Or uninstall Windows Net-Clean manually.
Step 1: Remove Windows Net-Clean from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Windows Net-Clean.
- 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 Windows Net-Clean 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 Windows Net-Clean, 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 Windows Net-Clean 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 Windows Net-Clean from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Windows Net-Clean from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Windows Net-Clean.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Windows Net-Clean.
- 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 Windows Net-Clean.
- 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 Windows Net-Clean:
Remove following registry entries:
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Written by Rami Douafi