ABOUT

AdwCleaner is a tool with good reputation for removing spyware, adware, toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), browser hijacker and other malicious programs. This is the tool that can easily remove many of these types of programs from the PC for better user experience while browsing the web.

This effectively scan the PC within seconds, detects and eliminates any adware, PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program), toolbars, hijacker, spyware and many other applications.

AdwCleaner considerably enhance the security of the computer, and the best thing about the program is its user friendly interface. It is easy to use and easily available only you need to download this best adware removal program. With this user doesn’t need to do anything just double click on the application and start using it. It reboots the PC and removes the malicious files and registry entries linked with various malwares. This also displays the record of the malicious files, folders, and registry keys that get changed due to different malwares.

KEY FEATURES

Here are the key features:

1. Portability Advantages: This awesome feature of AdwCleaner can be saved to a mass storage device and can be run directly on infected or distrustful PC without worrying about other installations. And this tool does not modify Windows registry settings. This also creates folder in the primary drive that contains the quarantine, backups and reports.

2. Clean and intuitive interface: Its interface is quite simple and made from single window split into multiple windows for displaying scan results for the services, folders, files, shortcuts and registry entries along with the browser toolbars.

3. Scan for adware with one click: This is the best adware removal tool that removes adware in just one click. The scans results show all potentially unwanted items in each and every category and the entire items are automatically selected for deletion by default. Before proceeding with the removal procedure it is great to consult the log file (that is automatically created with every scan and clean operations) so find out the valuable information  like important folders, registry entries, browser object and many more that user can exclude from the removal procedure.

4. View scans results and prepares for cleaning: This is another essential feature it creates backups before each cleaning operations, hence this allow users to replace the original files in case it is important. This is best as if any file is deleted by mistakenly it can be restored from the quarantine.

5. Restore deleted objects from the quarantine: This is also very useful feature and right after triggering the cleaning operation it pops up a message that help the user to save any ongoing work and close running applications, for this it requires a system reboot to finalize the adware removal.

PROS AND CONS

Pros

·         This application is best as it worked smoothly on Windows 8.1 Pro, throughout the process without freezing, crashing or popping up error messages. The scanning and cleaning jobs were carried out quickly and RAM was used minimally used and the CPU consumption was significant.

·         It is designed with the advanced algorithm to detect some PUPs that might get missed by another tool.

·         It is designed with the advanced algorithm that is extremely easy to use. It can be used by the new users that had no experience in adware blocking utilities and scanning and cleaning information may be examined in log files.

·         This program automatically creates backups before deleting the items and helps the users to restore them through the quarantine manager.

·         This is the best tool that also removes all its traces from the computer with the click of a button and it is free to use.

CONS

Well, this is the best tool and we said above AdwCleaner managed to find some browser components missed by other similar apps but in some cases this also failed to detect some of them and even sometimes spots false results.

Another bad thing about this is that this does not come equipped with customization features for advanced usage. As the tool does not integrate buttons for selecting and deselecting entire items in the scanner results.

USER GUIDE

Follow the steps to remove malware from your system:

·         First of all download the AdwCleaner to the PC’s desktop.

Note: Assure that entire programs and internet browsers are closed before starting this program

·         After that double click on exe for tool to run.

·         Users of Windows Vista/7/8 right-click Run As Administrator.

·         And select the scan button,

As the scanning process is completed click on each category tab and remove then uncheck the things that you don’t want to remove from the system.
And as the scanning gets completed click on the Clean button.

Then in the pop-up window Click OK

·         In the pop-up window Click OK that show how to keep PC free of unnecessary program

And in the pop-up window Click OK that illustrate the alert message that AdwCleaner might restart the PC.

And when PC restarts Read the log repot that launches.

And again launch AdwCleaner. The application installer, that loads the application, will be in the Downloads folder.

Reviews

1. Too expensive and too slow

This is the best as it detects browser hijacking software really, really well. 

Cons

The scanning process takes about 5+ hours for running a full scan but on another PC with much larger hard drive, it takes 12+ hours to run a full scan. The subscription price is too high for software 

2. The best anti-spyware, but way too expensive for sure"

This is the best in scanning and cleaning Windows Registry for spyware infections. This not only scans but also monitors and protects many important things like DNS changes, proxy changes, the HOSTS file, homepage protection and many more. But apart from many good features this does not scan removable media on demand.