Remove Water Plant Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Water Plant is classified as a potentially unwanted program. This is an extremely malicious, intrusive, and harmful tool. It slithers its way into your system by means of slyness and subtlety, and once it gains access, it proceeds to wreak all sorts of havoc. If you don’t delete this application as soon as you first become aware of its presence, you WILL regret it as it causes a whole bundle of troubles. For one, shortly after it latches onto your computer, it starts flooding you with pop-up ads. Each and every time you try to use your browser, you will be bombarded by pop-ups. Not only that, but because the ads will appear incessantly, your computer’s performance slows down to a crawl, and you start experiencing frequent system crashes. Also, if you’re foolish enough to click on even one of Water Plant’s ads, all you’ll have to show for it is more malware getting installed on your PC. But the issues don’t stop there. The application also places your privacy in grave jeopardy as it spies on you. Immediately after it infects your system, the tool starts to keep a thorough record of your every move, and then sends the collected information to unknown third parties with agendas. Are you going to let that happen? Protect yourself and your computer, and delete Water Plant as soon as you possibly can. You won’t regret it.

How did I get infected with?

Water Plant resorts to the usual antics in order to gain access to your system. The tool is quite resourceful when it comes to sneaking in your computer undetected. In fact, it’s so masterful in the arts of deceit that it not only successfully dupes you into permitting its installation, but also manages to keep you utterly oblivious to the fact that you did. The moment of realization hits you once the program decides to reveal itself, which is usually when the ads start popping up. Water Plant relies on the old but gold methods of invasion so as to invade your system. More often than not, it hitches a ride with freeware or hides behind spam email attachments, corrupted links, or websites. Also, it can pose as a bogus system or program update. For example, you might be utterly convinced that you’re updating your Adobe Flash Player or Java, but, in reality, you’re giving the green light to a horrendous and harmful tool. If you wish to avoid getting stuck with adware such as Water Plant, you shouldn’t rush and should be more careful. Distraction, naivety, and haste are not your friends, but rather your enemies. Always keep your eyes open and remember that a little extra attention can save you a lot of troubles and headaches.

Why are these ads dangerous?

There’s reason Water Plant floods you with so many pop-ups. It does so in order to proceed with its operations. If it wishes to continue its existence, the application has to generate web traffic and to produce pay-per-click revenue for the third parties that support it. This is where the never-ending array of ads kicks in. But don’t think you see some random ads. The ads the program is bombarding you with are chosen specifically for you. Once Water Plant infects your PC, it starts monitoring your browsing habits in order to learn what you like and dislike. Once it understands your preferences, it knows which ads will have a better shot at sparking your interest and result in a click, i.e. profit. Then it floods you with them. As was already mentioned, the ads the tool displays are immensely unreliable, and a click will only lead to further damages. That’s why you should do your best to ignore the ads and avoid clicking on them! What’s worse than the vexatious ads and the malware threat is the grave security risk Water Plant places upon you. Unfortunately, the application doesn’t stop at only observing your browsing activities. It catalogs every move you make until it feels it has collected enough data from you and then sends it to the people behind it. After these strangers have access to your personal and financial information, they can do with it whatever they please, and you can’t stop them. Are you going to allow that to happen? Do what’s best for you and your computer, and delete Water Plant the first chance you get. Your future self will thank you for it.

How Can I Remove Water Plant Ads?

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

STEP 2: Delete Water Plant from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Water Plant from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Water Plant from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Water Plant 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 Water Plant 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 Water Plant 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.