Wednesday, March 12, 2014

How to Remove Traxxen Adware Virus and Stop Pop-ups



Basic Description of Traxxen

Traxxen is an unwanted browser extension which can be considered as a browser hijacker. If you install this kind of malicious program, your browser such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will be hijacked. As a result, a lot of ads with coupons, price comparison are added to your browser. No matter when you open your browser, these annoying pop-up ads are everywhere. Apart from pop-ups, many unwanted programs installed by Traxxen plague you very much. Your computer performance is slowed down because these unnecessary programs take up a lot of system resources. For this reason your PC often gets stuck.

Besides, you’d better keep away from these suspicious pop-up ads. Once you click on them, you will be redirected by Traxxen to sponsored websites. Then the maker of this browser hijacker can get paid from third parties because it helps them collect network traffic. Vicious as it is, this nasty browser hijacker is able to keep tracks of your keystrokes and browser histories. The purpose of Traxxen is to collect some lucrative information like your email address, credit card number and password. Once this browser hijacker hides in your system deeply, it is likely to use system loopholes to drop many dangerous computer viruses. If you want to protect your PC from suffering unexpected attacks, you should remove Traxxen as fast as you can.

Manual Guide to Remove Traxxen 

Some of antivirus programs may identify Traxxen as a malicious website. But you can’t get rid of this browser hijacker by antivirus removal. To remove Traxxen completely, you need a manual removal solution. The guide below will show you how to remove it from your PC step by step.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manager. Disable the process of Traxxen.

Step 2: Remove additional unwanted programs from your browser

For Google Chrome

1. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions by clicking Bin button.

2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change button to reset your homepage.


For Mozilla Firefox
 
1. Click Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time to open Add-ons page > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

2. Click the Firefox button > Help > Troubleshooting Information > click on Reset Firefox button.



For Internet Explorer

1. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

2. Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.


Step 3: Reboot your computer