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How to Remove Square Corner Adware Completely

Ads by Square Corner frequently pop up on your screen? Do you know what it is and how dangerous it is on your computer? It is all because of Square Corner adware hides in your computer. To put an end to those annoying ads, you need to remove the adware from your computer totally. Don’t know how to perform the removal? Why not take a look at this post which shows the step-by-step removal guide?



Square Corner is regarded as one kind of nasty adware program, whose special hobby is to get itself into your browsers through being bundled and installed with free software you introduce into your computer. “Bundling” has been a common way used by adware to infiltrate into users’ computers without their knowledge. This adware usually will pretend to be a useful tool to improve the browsing experience for computer users. It is a great threat to your computer and privacy. Be similar to other adware, it is also an online advertising platform created by adware or other unknown program to boost traffic and generate pop-up ads in order to obtain illegal benefits. As a result, tons of ads, including sponsored links, coupons, deals, banner ads, pop-unders or interstitial ads, will frequently show up without your permission. It is capable of changing your system and browser settings and deleting critical files at random. It will trace and track cookies, history, favorite and other personal data and send to the hijackers. For this reason, you need to remove Square Corner once any trace of it is found on your computer.

 

Symptoms of Square Corner Infection



1. It comes bundled with freeware and gets installed on your computer without any knowledge.

2. It modifies browser settings and changes desktop icons without asking your permission.

3.It displays a mass of nasty advertisements, add-ons and safety alarms in the PC.

4. It changes your search engine and always redirects your search results to websites that are full of advertising content.

5. It furtively gathers your online data (like search terms and browsing history) and sends them to its creators.

 

Guide to Remove Square Corner Manually?



All you need to do is to remove this adware completely from your computer in order to stop those annoying pop-up ads and other threat. You can use a powerful malware removal tool to automatically delete it or you can just follow the effective guide provided below to manually remove it.



Step 1: Launch Task Manager by pressing the keys CTRL + Shift + ESC at the same time. Click on “Processes” tab and start looking for processes related to Square Corner. Select them one by one and clicking on the “End Process” button to stop them from running.

Step 2: Find out and remove the files related to teh adware in the following folders.

%Temp%\
%AppData%\
%LocalAppData%\
%Program Files%\
%AllUsersProfile%\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

Step 3: Press Windows + R keys and type “regedit” into the Run box. Then hit OK to start Registry Editor. Search for and delete all registry entries associated with the adware.

Step 4: Remove add-ons related to the virus from the infected web browsers.

Internet Explorer
Click on “Tools” and then select “Manage add-ons”.
On Toolbars and Extensions, remove the adware from your browser.

Mozilla Firefox
Click on “Tools” and then select “Add-ons”.
On Extensions and Plug-ins, remove the adware from your browser.

Google Chrome
Click on the Wrench or 3-bar icon.
Click on “Tools” and select “Extensions”.
On Extensions tab, remove the adware from your browser.

 

Advices to Prevent Square Corner



To avoid adware infection, you need to be wary when installing free applications (video players, download managers, PDF creators, etc) on your computer. Instead, it will trace your online activities and collect your cookies and valuable information for illegal benefits. On the other hand, be careful to receive any emails and attachments if they come from unknown or unfamiliar friends or third party. Because this adware infection can attack the infected computer by these attachments. In the same time, you cannot trust all the links on the web sites especially those in the emails sent by strangers.

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