Description and Removal Of ShareThis Ads Completely

Berta Bilbao

Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.

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A suspicious unwanted program, going by the name ShareThis has been causing security concerns, experts say. This is due to the possibility that ShareThis may display various ad-supported content mainly connected with third-party websites that are hazardous to the user. Some of the third-party sites may either con the user out of his funds(Fake Tech Support) or infect the computer with ransomware, such as CryptoWall.

How Did ShareThis Ads Get In My PC?

There are several strategies that such unwanted apps use to slither onto your system. You may have downloaded it by clicking on an unknown link by accident or by opening a spam mail that may have promoted the app as a free useful software for sharing. Another way by which such apps situate themselves on machines is a method, called bundling. This devious strategy is being implemented as a new form of marketing. It includes any third-party apps directly in the installers of free software, usually with an installation step that either prompts the user to agree with a button or displays an opt-in box. Experts recommend always to be careful when installing apps from sites that are not their genuine providers.

More About ShareThis Ads

This software may use malicious practices to collect information about your online interests and activities. Such technologies are browser cookies, beacons, LSOs or Flash Cookies and several other. After that, the second step for it is that it might begin to display to you pop-ups, ad-supported search results (Blackhat SEO), highlighted text, hot linking to third-party search engines and other. Cookies are small text files that may collect and store information about your search history, online clicks, browsing history and other info.

More to it than that, ShareThis may collect information, regarding your IP address, country, and other preferences to concentrate the ads even further and increase the likelihood of you clicking on them. For example, if you live in Sweden, the app will begin to pop out advertisements in Swedish and so on.

But these are not the reasons why ShareThis is considered to be a potentially harmful program. I mean, sure it may collect information from users, but most of the apps do it nowadays to improve their services, right? The reason this app is not to be trusted is that it may collaborate with some suspicious third-party online locations. These mysterious sites may be either websites belonging to the same developer of ShareThis with the purpose to boost the traffic on his sites and earn funds by pay-per-click schemes. But they might also be sites of clients of the developer of the app. Either way, some of them may scam the user out of his money or information, by displaying:

• Fake virus pop-ups.
• Fake prize contest registration.
• A fraudulent free product claiming.

More so, some sites may implement a so-called drive-by download and could infect the user PC directly just by visiting with:

• Trojan Horses.
• Worms.
• Viruses.
• Keyloggers.
• Rootkits.

And what is worse is that these are only a little part of the possible threats connected with unfamiliar third-parties, whose ads may be administered by apps, like ShareThis. This is why experts advise always to use trusted sources when you download content and employ ad-blocking software and anti-malware programs on your computer.

Remove ShareThis Ads From Your Computer

To fully delete ShareThis from your computer, you should first uninstall it manually. To do this, you may follow the step-by-step instructions for clean up below. Because such apps may situate leftover objects on your computer, it is recommended to download and install anti-malware software on your PC. It will detect any threats and immediately get rid of them and will also protect you from such in the future.

Spy Hunter scanner will only detect the threat. If you want the threat to be automatically removed, you need to purchase the full version of the anti-malware tool.Find Out More About SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool / How to Uninstall SpyHunter

1. Remove/Uninstall ShareThis Ads

1. Remove/Uninstall ShareThis Ads in Windows

Here is a method in few easy steps to remove that program. No matter if you are using Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program get left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, mistakes with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:

Hold the Windows Logo Button and “R” on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will appear (fig.1).

In the field type in “appwiz.cpl” and press ENTER (fig.2).

This will open a window with all the programs installed on the PC.
Select the program that you want to remove, and press “Uninstall” (fig.3).

Follow the instructions above and you will successfully uninstall ShareThis Ads.

2. Restore the settings in your browser

2. Remove ShareThis Ads from your browser

Remove a toolbar from Mozilla FirefoxRemove a toolbar from Google Chrome Remove a toolbar from Internet Explorer Remove a toolbar from Safari

Start Mozilla Firefox Open the menu window

Select the “Add-ons” icon from the menu

Select ShareThis Ads and click “Remove”

After ShareThis Ads is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Google Chrome and Open the drop menu

Move the cursor over “Tools” and then from the extended menu choose “Extensions“

From the opened “Extensions” menu locate ShareThis Ads and click on the garbage bin icon on the right of it.

After ShareThis Ads is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Internet Explorer:

Click “‘Tools’ to open the drop menu and select ‘Manage Add-ons’

In the ‘Manage Add-ons’ window, make sure that in the first window ‘Add-on Types’, the drop menu ‘Show’ is on ‘All add-ons’

Select ShareThis Ads to remove, and then click ‘Disable’. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected toolbar, and some additional toolbars might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click ‘Disable’.

After ShareThis Ads has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red ‘X’ in the top right corner and start it again.

Start Safari

Open the drop menu by clicking on the sprocket icon in the top right corner.

From the drop menu select ‘Preferences’
In the new window select ‘Extensions’
Click once on ShareThis Ads
Click ‘Uninstall’

A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall ShareThis Ads. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the ShareThis Ads will be removed.

3. Remove ShareThis Ads automatically with Spy Hunter Malware - Removal Tool.

3. Remove ShareThis Ads automatically with Spy Hunter Malware – Removal Tool.

To clean your computer with the award-winning software Spy Hunter –
It is highly recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by SpyHunter.

Berta Bilbao

Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.

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