{"id":5275,"date":"2015-10-08T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2020-02-26T20:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:58:48","slug":"tip-of-the-week-how-to-save-your-browser-from-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-how-to-save-your-browser-from-adware\/5275\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the week: how to save your browser from adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div>\n<p>Do you ever install <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">freeware<\/a> from the Internet? If so, do you pay close attention to the installation process, or simply click \u201cNext\u201d without reading the text in the installation window?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered \u201cYes\u201d in both instances, rest assured you are not alone. The majority of people do the same. This behavior is something that is leveraged by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/adware-toolbar\/5513\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">adware<\/a> developers.<\/p>\n<p>There are times where you install a useful application only to discover that you also inadvertently installed a plugin or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/getting-rid-of-shady-toolbars\/4231\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">toolbar<\/a>, which alters the home page or search settings. Any attempt to restore previous browser settings are often fruitless \u2013 once the OS is rebooted, the toolbar changes them again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My big fat adware cleaning (or why it's difficult to remove adware from your PC) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LGtUqlKFgL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/LGtUqlKFgL<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wnSskYlXh2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wnSskYlXh2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KasperskyUK (@kasperskyuk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kasperskyuk\/status\/562298359361576960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">February 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/advert\/multi-device-security?redef=1&amp;THRU&amp;reseller=gl_KDpost_pro_ona_smm__onl_b2c_kasperskydaily_lnk____kismd___\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kaspersky Internet Security<\/a> tracks and blocks the default change of browser, home page and search, any changes in the proxy server, as well as the installation of extensions, plugins or toolbars.Once enabled <strong>Control of operating system changes<\/strong>, any attempts by an adware program to alter your browser settings would flag you to alow or reject changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/10\/05084921\/os-changes-control-screen-en.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/10\/05084921\/os-changes-control-screen-en.png\" alt=\"How to save your browser from adware\" width=\"772\" height=\"575\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/support.kaspersky.com\/12106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knowledge Base<\/a> to learn more about <strong>Control of operating system changes. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever install freeware from the Internet? If so, do you pay close attention to the installation process, or simply click \u201cNext\u201d without reading the text in the installation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":5276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[1897,548,1259,898,180,504,508,1898,732],"class_list":{"0":"post-5275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-products","8":"category-tips","9":"tag-advice","10":"tag-adware","11":"tag-changes-control","12":"tag-freeware","13":"tag-kaspersky-internet-security","14":"tag-products-2","15":"tag-support","16":"tag-tips","17":"tag-toolbars"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tip-of-the-week-how-to-save-your-browser-from-adware\/5275\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tag\/advice\/","name":"#advice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19295,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/19295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}