What is Optical Surf?
Optical Surf is a SuperWeb adware application that tracks your browsing and shows you targeted commercial advertisements when installed. Although the official Optical Surf website claims that it’s the “Best Web Browsing technology,” this fails to stand up to reality. Optical Surf doesn’t perform any useful functions aside from spamming your web browser window with ads. There is no reason why you should keep it on your computer. Save yourself the trouble and remove Optical Surf immediately upon discovery.
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How did I get Optical Surf?
Optical Surf is mainly distributed in freeware bundles. You probably downloaded a free program and chose Basic installation or failed to uncheck the box offering to install this program when using the Advanced installation. After getting installed on your system, it inserted itself among your Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox extensions. If you use Google Chrome and haven’t updated it in a while, Optical Surf could also affect it. However, if your Google Chrome is up to date, it’s safe, blocking Optical Surf by default. This brings up a good point concerning the removal of Optical Surf. If one of the most popular browsers in the world considers this application useless, why would you want to keep it on the others? Delete it immediately.
What does Optical Surf do?
When Optical Surf is added as a browser extension, it uses this access to amass information about the websites you visit, trying to determine your interests. It also tracks your Internet queries and looks at the items you look for on Internet shopping websites to see what you might want. Then, it uses all this data to sort through its third-party partners’ website and shows you ads to the pages that could be interesting to you. If you click one of those ads, you will get redirected to that website and Optical Surf developers will get paid for the increased traffic.
What are the dangers presented by Optical Surf?
Optical Surf is not dangerous or malicious by itself. However, it has to be noted that there are certain dangers associated with this adware. First in line is Optical Surf’s distribution method. Bundles are known to contain dangerous software that you wouldn’t want on your system. Another concern is the safety of the third-party websites that Optical Surf ads link to. SuperWeb LLC disclaims any responsibility for privacy policies and safety practices of its partners. These websites could contain fake download links or outright malware. In the case of more malicious programs, you might not even know that it found its way on your system until it’s too late. We recommend getting a professional antimalware removal tool just to be safe.
How do I remove Optical Surf?
While the instructions for manual removal of Optical Surf are beneath this article, we urge you to consider scanning your system for threats with a top of the line malware removal tool at the very least. Optical Surf alone isn’t hard to remove, but if you got infected after clicking an ad or installed something you didn’t want in a bundle, it might be much more difficult to get rid of everything that could present some danger to your system.
Optical Surf Removal
Windows XP
- Click Start.
- Go to Control Panel.
- Select Add or Remove Programs.
- Right-click Optical Surf and click Remove.
Windows 7 and Vista
- Click the Windows button and go to Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program and select Optical Surf.
- Click Uninstall.
Windows 8
- Right-click the bottom-left corner of your screen while in Desktop.
- Go to Control Panel, click Uninstall a program, and Uninstall Optical Surf.
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