Remove Taboola Ads (Chrome and Firefox)

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Taboola is supposed to be a fun discovery tool. It promises to improve your online experience. The only thing it brings to you in reality is trouble. This program has been classified as a potentially unwanted adware virus. It is beyond irritating and obnoxious. Furthermore, it’s harmful. The Taboola Ads have probably taken over your PC screen. How do we know? Because that’s how adware works. By generating web traffic to some specific websites, these programs help hackers gain profit. Yes, hackers are gaining revenue thanks to the Taboola Virus. Just by keeping this application on your computer, you’re becoming a sponsor of crooks. Is that something you’re willing to do? Are you actively trying to support their malicious business? If not, make sure you uninstall Taboola on the spot. Adware simply doesn’t below on your device. This program will both harass you and expose you to malware. After successful installation, the Taboola virus adds an extension to all your browsers. They end up injected with various worthless pop-ups and other third-party links. What you must keep in mind is that the Taboola ads are sponsored. They will lead you to random, unknown and unsafe websites. As mentioned, this is how adware’s developers gain profit. Your safety is completely out of the picture. You know what happens when you click a malicious ad, don’t you? Some nasty parasite will automatically land on your already compromised device. Don’t make an already bad situation worse. Restrain yourself from clicking anything brought to you by the parasite. Taboola may also generate suspicious program updates and fake commercials. There is no telling which link is safe and which one isn’t unless you click. However, clicking is quite an unwarranted risk. To prevent further harm, stay away from the pesky Taboola pop-ups. You will lose absolutely nothing by deleting this program. On the other hand, you will gain a lot. The parasite poses a direct threat to your security as well as your privacy. Passwords, usernames, search queries, IP addresses, email addresses, etc. All of this gets diligently monitored and sent into the greedy hands of crooks. Your browsing history is being spied on as well. As you could imagine, such a trick simply cannot end well for you. Hackers now have access to some immensely valuable, personal data of yours. They won’t think twice before they sell it for marketing purposes. That means financial scams and identity theft are two horrendous scenarios you must prevent. How? You tackle the adware.

How did I get infected with?

Do you  have the habit of downloading bundled programs? Most PC users do. That is how most PC users fall victims to cyber infections. One simple careless click could cause you quite a headache. Hence, next time you install freeware or shareware bundles, be careful. Instead of going for the Basic option, check the Advanced/Custom one. It will allow you to keep a close eye on all the programs that land on board. Remember, if you’re not controlling the process, hackers might. They could attach all sorts of infections to the bundled software. Adware isn’t even the worst type of virus that could get downloaded. There are file-encrypting infections, Trojan horses and many more. Watch out for potential intruders and don’t be gullible. Check out the Terms and Conditions of what you give green light to. The same goes for the EULA (End User License Agreement). Sure, that’s not the most exciting thing you could do online. It was never meant to be fun, though. It was meant to help you protect your machine from malware. Skipping steps is an incredibly bad idea so don’t be naive. Your caution will pay off.

Why is this dangerous?

The Taboola pop-ups are hard to get rid of. If you want to stop this parade of bizarre commercials, you have to delete Taboola itself. This pest of a program infects all your browsers. Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer are now untrustworthy. You can’t even surf the Web anymore due to the parasite’s unwanted presence. Discounts, coupons, product deals, offers, price comparisons – Taboola displays them all. The infection bombards your PC screen with nasty advertisements like nobody’s business. You also get redirected to unreliable websites. Hackers are using the dubious pay-per-click mechanism so delete their creation ASAP. It only becomes more and more harmful as time passes. To delete it manually, please follow our detailed removal guide down below.

How to Remove Taboola virus

The Taboola infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Taboola 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.

WARNING! Stopping the wrong file or deleting the wrong registry key may damage your system irreversibly.
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STEP 1: Track down Taboola in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Taboola startup location

STEP 3: Delete Taboola traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Taboola in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Taboola startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Taboola virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Taboola traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Taboola by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Taboola

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Taboola, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Taboola argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Taboola Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.