Ways to Completely Remove Positive Finds - Remove Adware from Your PC

Do you often receive annoying ads from Positive Finds when you are online and take a long time to wait for your browser to respond? Don’t know why those ads show up and wonder how to stop them from popping up? Don't worry! Read this article and you will learn how to remove it thoroughly.

Positive Finds is sort of vicious program which is classified as malicious adware. It seems like a normal search engine that can provide to enrich your web browsing experience at first glance, however, its fake. It can appear on your web browser including IE, Firefox and Chrome as an add-on. After completed its infiltration, it displays intrusive online advertisements: sponsored links, banner, interstitial, videos, coupons, images, in-text advertisements, in-search, pop-up, and pop-under. In addition, this adware has the ability to monitor web users browsing activities, track their browsing history, and even collect their precious data stored on the target computer. This involves the security of victims privacy and property. In addition, you may download and install some rogue programs on your computer by accident if you click on those ads.

How Does The Adware Enter Your PC?

Free online resources: You possibly get the adware via some freeware on the Internet since the adware or spyware can be contained inside the free programs. If you think all the online free applications are safe for use, you are likely to get the adware from the Internet.

Access to illegal sites: Some unofficial websites also have the chance to redirect you to the page of the malware. Cyber hackers embeds Adware or PUP into those websites and seize the opportunity to infiltrate into users’ computer when they visit the illegitimate websites.

Clicking on precarious attachment or links in the emails: Adware or potential unwanted programs can be implanted onto the emial attachments and hidden in those malicious links contained on the email contents. If you click on those links or open the email attachments, you will be attacked by adware or PUP.

Keeping outdated antivirus: Those unwanted adware programs can get a chance to enter your PC if there is no antivirus software on your PC or your security software is out of date. Moreover, additional infections can invade your PC with a wet finger.

How to Uninstall the Adware Completely?

If your computer is infected by this adware, your good mood may be destroyed when those unwanted ads keep popping up on the web pages. Beyond that, the adware may collect and record your browsing histories and send your personally non-identifiable information to third parties for unknown purposes. Thus, you should remove Positive Finds from the PC as soon as possible. Here is the manual removal guide that you can follow.

1. Remove all Positive Finds related add-ons and extensions.

Google Chrome: Wrench Icon > Tools > Extensions

Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Internet Explorer: Tools > Manage Add-ons

2. Open Control Panel from Start menu; then find Folder Options and under View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK.

3. Find out and delete the files related to the adware.

4. Press Windows + R keys to open the Run window and then type in regedit to open Registry Editor.

5. Delete any registry entries associated with the adware.

Attention: Positive Finds is able to update itself and change its features, which make it not easy to delete its files completely in manual way. If you want to eliminate it for good, you'd better choose an automatic removal tool like SpyHunter to do a thorough scan for your computer and remove all threats completely.