How to Remove “Add Extension to Leave” Pop-up Effectively

Pretending to be a useful site that can help save money and optimizing browser activities, “Add Extension to Leave” pop-up covers its main purpose with random resources as commercial deals, products sales, coupons and other shopping information from the store. As a matter of fact, it is an adware program/potentially unwanted program that aims to slip into your computer and affect the web browsers so as to improve affiliate marketing. To complete the targets, this precarious extension will secretly gather your information like search queries, browsing histories, keystrokes and any other items related to your web browsing activities so as to display the ads that you may strongly interested in. Usually, it pretend to provide the latest deals, coupons, discounts and other shopping related things to entice users to click it in order to take the chance to slip into your system. If you click on those ads, you may be redirected to various third party shops, certain service offering websites, gaming portals, casino, and other unsafe websites where you may be lured into installing malicious program, which contains virus or malware, or if you buy something there, You may be deceived. However, don’t fall for its trap and take immediate and thorough action to remove “Add Extension to Leave” pop-up from your computer before further damage and data loss.

Currently, “Add Extension to Leave” pop-up adware gets onto the target machine by bundling with various kinds of internet resources as share, freeware like download manage, PDF files or media players. The reason why this adware can attack the computer successfully is that most of the PC users always ignore the installation of the program they have downloaded. If you never knew “bundled installer” before, it is time to pay attention to the installer of new freeware you try to install and uncheck those optional plug-ins, toolbars, toolbars, etc. There are some useful tips that can help you avoid those unwanted freeware during the installation which come along with wanted process. First of all, please read End-User's License Agreement of the program that you are going to install because it may help you find many information like third party sponsorship, tracking cookies and so on. What's more, be patient when you installing the program and choose Advanced or Custom installation mode will make the process and optional items more clear. In addition, pay more attention to those dubious check boxes which tacitly claim you agree to bring in add-on of this threat or other suspicious program. Otherwise, your web browser may be affected by unexpected programs and your browsing experience will be interrupted.

How to Remove “Add Extension to Leave” pop-up Thoroughly? 

“Add Extension to Leave” pop-up is an annoying adware that can corrupt your computer severely. Your personal information may be revealed and stolen to third parties. If you have no clue on how to deal with it, then this guide will help you get rid of this adware from your computer and web browsers.

Step 1: Launch Task Manager by pressing the keys CTRL + Shift + ESC at the same time. Click on “Processes” tab and start looking for processes related to “Add Extension to Leave” pop-up. Select them one by one and clicking on the “End Process” button to stop them from running.

Step 2: Find out and remove the files related to teh adware in the following folders.

%Temp%\
%AppData%\
%LocalAppData%\
%Program Files%\
%AllUsersProfile%\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

Step 3: Press Windows + R keys and type “regedit” into the Run box. Then hit OK to start Registry Editor. Search for and delete all registry entries associated with the adware.

Step 4: Remove add-ons related to the virus from the infected web browsers.

Internet Explorer
Click on “Tools” and then select “Manage add-ons”.
On Toolbars and Extensions, remove the adware from your browser.

Mozilla Firefox
Click on “Tools” and then select “Add-ons”.
On Extensions and Plug-ins, remove the adware from your browser.

Google Chrome
Click on the Wrench or 3-bar icon.
Click on “Tools” and select “Extensions”.
On Extensions tab, remove the adware from your browser.

How to Avoid Introducing Malware?

You not only ought to care more about your browsing operations but also should keep aware and cautious during something installation. Keep in mind that official websites or other reliable sites should be your first choice when you attempt to install programs. Advanced or Custom installation should be the first election during the installation and do be away from anything suspicious. And before downloading a piece of software, you can first search for its related information online. What all should be done is to make sure the target one is your choice and can run safely.