How Do I Remove "Ad by currency" from IE/ Chrome/ Firefox

What is "Ad by currency"?

The "Ad by currency" ads are caused by an ad-supported program named currency that you may download and install via third party software. Thus, when you download some stuff from the Internet, you should be more careful and take a close look to what those stuffs are.

When installed, it will display numerous commercial ads on common web browsers like Google chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. These ads not only interrupt your normal online activities, but also expose the system to bring up more other potentially harmful programs even viruses. Therefore, you need to get rid of Ad by currency ads as quickly as you can.

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How to remove currency easily and completely?

Method A: Remove currency Manually

Step 1. Uninstall currency in Control Panel. 

Click Start button> Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find suspicious program and right click on it and then click Uninstall to uninstall the program.

Step 2. Remove currency extension or add-ons from your browsers

Internet Explorer:
1) Start Internet Explorer and choose "Tools" >"Manage add-ons".
2) Choose "Toolbars and Extensions", then find and remove related programs.
3) Restart browser to complete the whole process.

Google Chrome:
1) Open Google Chrome, click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" icon in top right corner.
2) Select "Settings" > "Extensions", then find and delete add-ons.
3) Restart the browser to complete the whole process.

Mozilla Firefox:
1) Start Firefox and choose "Tools" > "Add-ons"> "Extensions".
2) Search for related items and remove them.
3) Restart Firefox to complete the process.

Step 3. Delete all the infection associated files

1) Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you're in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick "Show hidden files and folders" and non-tick "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" and then press "OK".

2) All the infection associated files listed below need to be removed:

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 4. Remove all the infection registry entries

Hit Win+R keys, type "regedit" in Run box, and then click "OK" to open Registry Editor

Delete them all： 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain “Default_Page_URL”

HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[adware name]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[adware name]

Step 5. Restart your computer to take effect. 

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Method B: Remove currency Automatically

Step 1. Remove currency with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware,etc.

1) Click the below button to download SpyHunter.

2) Double click on its file and then click the "Run" button to enter the installation procedure.

3) When the installation is complete, click the "Finish" button.

4) Open SpyHunter and click "Scan Computer Now!" to start scan your computer.

5) When the SpyHunter scan is completed, you can see that it detects all the threats in your PC. Then click "Fix Threats" button to make your computer clean.

Step 2. Optimize your PC using RegCure Pro

RegCure Pro is an advanced optimizer which is able to solve your computer system problems, remove your privacy items produced by online searches, delete junk files, uninstall malware and fix performance problems.

(Please be at ease for RegCure Pro, since it will never bundle with any programs and it can get along with existing security programs without any conflicts.)

1) Click the below button to download RegCure Pro.

2) Double click on its application and click the "Yes" button to install the program step by step.

3) After the installation is complete, open the program and scan your system for unnecessary files and invalid registry entries. That will take some time for the first scanning. Please wait while the program scans your system for performance problems.

4) When the System Scan is done, click "Fix All" button to correct all the security risks and potential causes of your computer slow performance.

In Conclusion:

The longer currency stays on your PC, the more troubles it will cause. There is no better way than to prevent or remove currency immediately to guarantee that your PC may not engage to endless pop-up ads and other unwanted programs.

Download SpyHunter to remove currency quickly.

Download RegCure Pro to fix slow PC performance easily.

Start a Live Chat with online experts if you do not want to install more programs.

Note: The free version of SpyHunter/ RegCure Pro is only for detection. To remove the malicious threats/ junk files on your PC, you will need to purchase the removal tool.