What is Advertising-Support ads?
Advertising-Support ads are not a genuine adware application. It is actually advertisement provider for a number of adware programs. Thus, you may have more than one adware applications installed on your computer that make use of Advertising-Support ads, and consequently you basically get a double exposure to potentially harmful content. Hence, you need to remove Advertising-Support ads from your browser and your computer at once. However, it is obvious that if you want to get rid of Advertising-Support ads, you need to terminate the program which utilizes the platform first.
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Where do Advertising-Support ads come from?
You can access the main website for Advertising-Support ads via advertising-support.com, but there would be no download link for any application there. You will be told, however, that you are seeing commercial advertisements as a part of the company’s “advertising solution for websites or web browser extensions”, and the so-called “solution” was installed on a computer by the user himself/herself.
It means that you must have installed a program that uses Advertising-Support ads by yourself, even if you had no intention to do so. Hence, it is important to attentively track the programs you install on your PC, especially if the software is downloaded from a third party website. If you can choose not to install additional software on your computer, better do so. Otherwise you will have to deal with various undesirable consequences.
What do Advertising-Support ads do?
Since Advertising-Support ads provide adware programs with commercial advertisements it helps adware applications display various commercial pop-ups. The pop-ups may have the name of the adware or content provider on them, for example, “ads by AdwareName”. Nevertheless, once you click any of the pop-up ads, you will be redirected to advertising-support.com.
It also does not matter what web browser is set as your default one, because adware applications that use Advertising-Support ads can get installed on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. It is also known that this adware platform is utilized by Feven adware application which is part of the Lyrics adware family. Hence, you are bound to encounter a vast number of adware applications that employ Advertising-Support ads to generate their pop-ups content.
How to remove Advertising-Support ads?
Unless you determine the original adware program that makes use of Advertising-Support ads, you most probably will not get rid of the adware platform that easily. If you do not remember having installed any freeware applications recently, you should run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner, because this program has been created to detect any potentially unwanted program possible.
Once the program is determined, remove it manually via Control Panel (you can find the manual removal instructions below this article). However, that is not the end, because you are also strongly recommended to scan your computer once again after manual removal so that you would be 100% sure that all of the unwanted programs have been terminated for good. Acquire a licensed computer security tool if necessary to safeguard your PC from harm.
How to remove unwanted program
Windows 8
- Slide your mouse cursor across the desktop to the bottom right corner.
- Wait for Charm bar to appear and click Settings.
- Go to Control Panel and click Uninstall a program.
- Remove any unwanted program present.
Windows Vista & Windows 7
- Open Start menu and click Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program and remove undesirable application.
Windows XP
- Open Start menu and navigate to Control Panel.
- Go to Add or remove programs and uninstall potentially harmful application.
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