Remove Flexible Family Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Flexible Family is a free online application that should provide family tips. Here’s a tip – don’t install it. This thing is incredibly misleading, very dangerous and impressively annoying. To be more specific, Flexible Family is a virus. Classified as a potentially unwanted adware-type program, it has to be tackled as soon as possible. By pretending to be a legitimate application, Flexible Family is actually trying to trick you into keeping the virus on board. As you could imagine, though, having a delusive infection on your PC system is a terrible idea. Therefore, instead of jeopardizing your own safety, get rid of the parasite. Flexible Family promises numerous useful features but it will fall short of your expectations. There’s only one reason why this program was developed – to generate web traffic. In order to boost the traffic towards some unknown (not to mention, unsafe) websites, the parasite injects your browsers with ads. “Brought to you by Flexible Family”, “Powered by Flexible Family”, “Ads by Flexible Family” or any similar text indicates the presence of adware. Being a classic representative of the nasty adware family, Flexible Family follows the classic pattern. It firstly adds a browser extension which generates the pop-ups. Then it proceeds to modify your browser settings without any permission or authorization from you. You can’t seriously expect viruses to take your preferences into consideration, can you? Once your browsers get injected with commercials, surfing the Web becomes almost impossible. Every single website you visit will be covered with a huge variety of pop-up ads, pop-unders, banners, interstitials, video ads, etc. till you could barely even see the page you’re on. Did you think that was bad? You should know that this program is ad-supported. That means hackers gain profit out of bombarding you with commercials. Logically, crooks wouldn’t hesitate to display a corrupted web link on your PC screen. Or many corrupted web links. Now that you know Flexible Family doesn’t discriminate between real and fake ads, are you willing to click any of them? This would be an immensely unwarranted risk. You could either automatically install malware or fall victim to a cyber fraud. However, both options don’t really sound that great, do they? To prevent further damage, avoid all coupons, discounts, product deals, price comparisons and other equally unreliable commercials you might come across. Flexible Family provides direct access to malware. It also jeopardizes your privacy by collecting private browsing-related data. All in all, this program is not something that should be kept on your system. The sooner you manage to delete it, the better.

How did I get infected with?

There are a couple of answers to the question how your machine got infected. To begin with, even though Flexible Family tries to pass as a harmless application, it usually gets installed behind your back. Adware is incredibly sneaky so it comes as no surprise that it applies mostly secretive, unfair, stealthy techniques. However, protecting your PC from malware isn’t a challenging task. What you have to do is be more cautious online. The Web is infested with infections and even a single moment of haste and negligence might end up causing you damage. Avoid unverified websites because the bundled software there often includes at least one “bonus” virus. Also, opt for the Advanced/Custom option in the Setup Wizard; stay away from the Basic option. This way you will be able to spot and deselect any potential piece of malware you notice in the freeware/shareware bundle. Many PC users tend to skip reading the Terms and Conditions or the EULA (End User License Agreement) as they rush the installation. That’s a mistake. Always take your time when installing software; having to uninstall some devious parasite later on would be much more time-consuming.

Why are these ads dangerous?

First things first, the Flexible Family ads get generated by a sneaky cyber infection. They are dangerous by default. As we mentioned already, this entire never-ending pile of pop-ups is sponsored which means it’s potentially very harmful. If you’re unlucky enough to click one corrupted web link disguised as an attractive product commercial, you will end up compromising your PC even further. Thanks to the fact Flexible Family’s browser extension is compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, there’s no escaping the ads. Apart from being unreliable, they are also quite stubborn, intrusive and hard to remove. Actually, there’s just one way to get rid of them and yes, it involves deleting the virus itself. As if an irritating parade of possibly malicious ads on every single page you visit wasn’t enough, Flexible Family also creates privacy issues. Hackers get free access to your IP addresses, browsing history, passwords and email addresses, etc. and they usually sell this information to questionable third parties for questionable purposes. Are you going to allow this nuisance to harass you? To uninstall Flexible Family manually, please follow the detailed removal guide that you will find down below.

How Can I Remove Flexible Family Ads?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Flexible Family 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 Flexible Family from your Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Delete Flexible Family from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Flexible Family from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Flexible Family from Your Computer

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Flexible Family 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 Flexible Family 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 Flexible Family 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.