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Seeing various ads by Storm Alert makes it obvious that the application has been installed on your PC. There is certainly a chance that you did that yourself, especially if you live in a stormy area because the application promises to inform you about forthcoming storms. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of whether you can trust the information Storm Alert will provide you with. What is more, it is not advisable to keep the application running on your PC because it is ad-supported. Hence, countless annoying ads will take over the web pages you browse and will impede your online activity. Also, these ads will expose you to a number of threats, which is why you should ignore them as much as possible. The only solution to the problem would be to delete Storm Alert right away.
How did I get infected with?
Storm Alert can easily be acquired at trackstormalert.com. It only takes a couple of minutes and a few simple steps to have the application installed on your PC. Beware that on the website it is mentioned that you will receive additional offers for toolbars or extensions during the setup of Storm Alert. If you are attentive enough, you will notice them and will have the chance to opt them out. The procedure is the same when Storm Alert is distributed unofficially. It is offered as additional during the installation of another free application, and because users tend to hurry through the process, they end up with a bunch of unwanted applications on the PC. We would advise you to always do a background check on the applications you intend to download in order to make sure they are reliable.
Why are these ads dangerous?
Storm Alert is without doubt a useless application that is not worth keeping on your system. The storm and bad weather alerts it promises to present you with may not be real or may not appear at all. What you can be certain of is that you will constantly be attacked by all kinds of ads when you surf the web. The reason this is done is that each time you click an ad by Storm Alert, the developers of the applications earn money. This is known as the pay-per-click method and is commonly used among adware developers. The problem is that clicking the ads also means that you will be sent to unknown websites the content of which is not endorsed by Storm Alert. You might have guessed already that this content might as well be malware and it is probably not a good idea to interact with it or with the ads that may lead you to it. To prevent any future security-related issues, you should remove Storm Alert from your system as soon as possible.
How Can I Remove Storm Alert Ads?
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If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Storm Alert infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.
STEP 1: Uninstall Storm Alert from your Add\Remove Programs
STEP 2: Delete Storm Alert from Chrome, Firefox or IE
STEP 3: Permanently Remove Storm Alert from the windows registry.
STEP 1 : Uninstall Storm Alert from Your Computer
Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command
Type “Appwiz.cpl”
Locate the Storm Alert program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.
STEP 2 : Remove Storm Alert from Chrome, Firefox or IE
Remove from Google Chrome
- In the Main Menu, select Tools—> Extensions
- Remove any unknown extension by clicking on the little recycle bin
- If you are not able to delete the extension then navigate to C:\Users\”computer name“\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\and review the folders one by one.
- Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind
- If you are using the latest chrome version you need to do the following
- go to settings – Add person
- choose a preferred name.
- then go back and remove person 1
- Chrome should be malware free now
Remove from Mozilla Firefox
- Open Firefox
- Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
- Disable and remove any unknown add on
- Open the Firefox’s Help Menu
- Then Troubleshoot information
- Click on Reset Firefox
Remove from Internet Explorer
- Open IE
- On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
- Go to Toolbars and Extensions
- Disable any suspicious extension.
- If the disable button is gray, you need to go to your Windows Registry and delete the corresponding CLSID
- On the Upper Right Corner of Internet Explorer Click on the Gear Icon.
- Click on Internet options
- Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.
- Check the “Delete Personal Settings Tab” and then Reset
- Close IE
Permanently Remove Storm Alert Leftovers
To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify any registry leftovers or temporary files.