How to Remove Wajam Adware Completely

How to Get Rid of Wajam Completely

Wajam is considered as an adware program or potentially unwanted program, which will produce tons of ads on your page table while you are surfing on the Internet. Obviously, it is aiming at launching advertising banners, inline texts and other forms of advertisements to commercialize itself. Wajam will collect personal data on the infected computer to attract other web users and display ads.

Usually Wajam adware will be able to attack the infected computer by attaching to the third-party programs or executable processes. Some users may acquire the code from sponsored links posted on social networking sites and unfamiliar web pages.

Once infected, Wajam has the ability to get installed on your computer as a browser extension, plug-in or add-on. It is compatible with many popular web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Constant pop-ups of ads and redirect problems is popular symptom of this adware. Moreover, it will bring other programs to the infected system which PC users may regard them as normal one.

It is unworthy of being trusted when Wajam claims that it will foster a better browsing experience for you. Instead, it is a total scam and you may suffer from serious PC problems and data loss of confidential information. Apart from showing on ads, this adware may monitor your browsing activities and gather your sensitive data stored on the browser. To avoid worse results and a value of losses, you should take urgent actions to remove Wajam from affected PC thoroughly. Tips below can teach you how to remove this adware.


Why Do You Need to Remove the Adware From the PC?

1. It will damage your online activities by redirecting you to visit other malicious sites and let you download the unsafe programs, process, or media which may contain virus infection.

2. It may alter your browser Internet settings and other system settings, lowering the security level, and spy on your personal information when you are browsing the Internet.

3. It increases risk of getting infected by other types of malware like virus, Trojan, worm and spyware, which may bring more harm to your computer.

4. It usually makes your computer run slower even get into a beak-down.


How to Remove Wajam from Your Computer?
Step 1: Remove the Wajam related programs.

Windows XP
Go to Start, navigate to Settings and click on Control Panel, navigate to Add or Remove Programs, choose Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and hit Remove.

Windows 8
Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Settings on Charms bar and go to Control Panel. Select Uninstall a program and remove the adware related programs.

Windows 7/Vista
Go to Start, navigate to Control Panel, select Uninstall a program/Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and click on Uninstall.

Step 2: Remove the adware related add-ons from the browsers.

Internet Explorer
Open IE and go to Tools or gear icon in IE9 and then to Manage Add-ons.
Select add-ons related to Wajam or other which you find is unknown to you and remove it.
Restart IE.

Mozilla Firefox
Open Mozilla Firefox & click on Tools from the top menu.
Now go to Add-ons and select the unknown extensions from the list related to the adware.
Remove them by selecting and clicking on Remove button.
Restart the browser.

Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome, click 3-Horizontal Bar icon at the top left corner.
Now go to Tools and then Extensions.
Search for extension exact or similar to the adware and delete it by selecting and clicking Trash icon next to it.
Restart the browser.

Step 3:  Remove all Wajam related files and registry entries.

Go to the Local Hard Disk C to find out and delete any adware related files from your computer.
Click the “Start” button and choose the “Run” option. Type “regedit” in the “Open” field and click the “OK” button. Then the Registry Editor will open. Then, find out and delete the adware related registry entries.

You can select to remove it either by yourself or by smart tool. If you have no rich experience in handling computer infections, you are highly suggested to choose automatic way. Via a professional malware removal tool, you can solve the problem easily and effectively. You can also try to wipe out this adware program if you don’t want to install anti-virus program. Here is the manual removal tips.


Helpful Tips of Virus or Malware Prevention

You should pay more attention when you want to download and install something and it is advised to be downloaded from official websites. If some software or applications are needed, the official website is your better choice. Besides, when you install them, You should firstly consider the Advanced or Custom installation and do not check anything that you are unfamiliar.