What is Ads by Buy To Joy? and how to remove it from my computer?
Ads by Buy To Joy is an infection that can be highly annoying as it slows down your computer considerably. If your computer has been infected by this potentially unwanted program (PUP), then to fully restore your computer’s functioning you must get rid of this infection. On this page you will learn about the most effective method for the permanent removal of Ads by Buy To Joy infection.
Ads by Buy To Joy infects your computer when you install Buy To Joy program. Although Buy To Joy is marketed as a program that displays coupons offering competitive prices, in reality it displays unnecessary ads without your consent. After installation, the browser extension of Buy To Joy program starts displaying advertisements with underlined text “Powered by Buy To Joy”, “Brought by Buy To Joy” or “Ads by Buy To Joy”.
By clicking these advertisements you may expose your computer to more dangerous infections. Therefore, the primary objective of this infection is to generate more pay-per-click revenue for its developers by encouraging you to install additional questionable content.
How Ads by Buy To Joy comes into computer?
Buy To Joy program is responsible for infecting your computer with Ads by Buy To Joy. Usually, Buy To Joy program is distributed by “bundling” it with other third-party freeware programs. Many times Buy To Joy is installed on your computer because the freeware program you were installing didn’t tell you about the other software it will be installing with it. Generally, Buy To Joy is bundled with the installers of untrusted websites.
Ads by Buy To Joy’s main symptoms?
The most common symptoms of this infection are:
- The web pages you visit show unwanted advertising banners.
- Random text on a web page are converted to hyperlinks.
- Several popups appear while browsing that encourage you to install fake updates and other programs.
- Other unnecessary adware programs can get installed without your consent.
How we can prevent from Ads by Buy To Joy infection?
You should take following precautions to prevent this infection:
- Stop downloading software or installers from untrustworthy websites.
- Install software using “Custom” or “Advanced” installation options, and uncheck all doubtful options.
- Scan your computer from a good anti-malware ones in a week.
Way to remove Ads by Buy To Joy?
You can’t get rid of this infection with a normal uninstall or delete method. As this infection creates several entries on your computer you will have to remove all the entries to ensure that your computer is completely disinfected. Only way to do this is by using automatic removal programs. These programs will easily, quickly and permanently remove all the traces of this infection from your computer. Both are the options we have given below, choose and apply from them.
Removal Guideline
Basic steps to Remove Ads by Buy To Joy.
Step 1 : Uninstall Ads by Buy To Joy malicious programs from your computer (Manual Step).
Method 1 – Manual Removal Guide.
Step 2 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy browser hijacker from “Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome” (Manual Step).
Step 3 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy virus from “Windows Shortcuts” (Manual Step).
Step 4 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy malicious program from “Registry” (Manual Step).
Step 5 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy suspicious from “Computer Start-up” (Manual Step).
Method 2- Automatic Removal Guide.
Step 6 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy adware using “AdwCleaner” (Free).
Step 7 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy Browser hijacker using “Junkware Removal Tool” (Free).
Final Step : Scan your computer with Anti-malwares.
Step 8 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy virus using “Hitman-Pro” Anti-Malware (Free).
Step 9 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy Infection using “Malwarebytes” Anti-Malware (Free).
STEP 1 : Uninstall Ads by Buy To Joy malicious program from your computer (Manually).
Uninstall Ads by Buy To Joy browser hijacker from control panel, which you have accidentally got installed recently, Uninstall recently installed programs. follow below instructions to uninstall it from control panel.
- Click on Start button –> click on Control Panel –> click on Add & Remove program or uninstall a program You will get a window which have listed all the installed program on your computer.
(if you are using windows 8, then Right-click on a bottom left hot corner (Normally known as a Start button) –> Control Panel –> click on Uninstall a Program).
- Uninstall Ads by Buy To Joy program. (If Ads by Buy To Joy won’t uninstall itself then use REVO Uninstaller Tool to remove it.) Click here to know more How to Uninstall any software with Revo Uninstaller Tool
(If you don’t see Ads by Buy To Joy into installed program list then uninstall all other unwanted programs, may be it has installed with another name.) - Uninstall all unwanted programs which have installed recently (you can short all them by the date using clicking on date column on uninstall page). We are giving you a list of suspicious program, If you got installed any on your computer so please uninstall all them immediately List here:- DownloadTerms 1.0, LyricsGet, BrowseToSave, TidyNetwork.com, SuperLyrics, and WebCake 3.0.
STEP 2 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy browser hijacker from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome (Manually).
Internet Explorer.
Remove Ads by Buy To Joy homepage from Internet Explorer.
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
- Click on Internet Options.
- A Internet options window will come up, click on General Tab. Under General tab you’ll get a homepage box.
- Now change your home page as your want. (www.google.com).
- Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Internet Explorer (Removal Guide).
Reset Internet Explorer (Restore to default setting)
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
- Click on Internet Options.
- A Internet options window will come up, click on Advanced Tab.
- Click on Reset Button under advance tab.
- An another confirmation window will come up, Here Check mark a box “Delete Personal Settings”, then click Reset button on it.
- Click here to know more How to Reset Internet Explorer as Default (Reset Guide).
Mozilla Firefox.
Remove Ads by Buy To Joy homepage from Mozilla Firefox.
- Open Firefox browser.
- Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
- Click on “Options”
- You’ll get a window. Here change homepage URL.
Remove Ads by Buy To Joy addons from Mozilla Firefox.
- Open Firefox browser.
- Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
- Click on “Addons”
- You’ll get a window which have listed all installed addons, Remove / Disable Ads by Buy To Joy add-ons. Also remove all the unwanted add-ons from there.
- Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Firefox (Addon Removal Guide).
Reset Mozilla Firefox (Restore to default setting)
- Open Firefox browser.
- Click on Help menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
- Click on “Troubleshooting Information”
- You’ll get a window, Click on Reset Firefox button and follow their on-screen instructions.
- Click here to know more How to Reset Firefox as Default (Reset Guide).
Google Chrome
Remove Ads by Buy To Joy homepage from Google Chrome
- Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon which is located right side top of the google chrome.
- Click on Settings –> click on “Set Pages”, remove all other pages and make a new startup page www.google.com.
Remove Ads by Buy To Joy extension from Google Chrome
- Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon which is located right side top of the google chrome.
- Click on Tools –> Extension, you will get a window which have listed all the installed Addons / Extension.
- Select Ads by Buy To Joy extension and click on their recycle bin icon to remove it completely from Google chrome. Also remove all the unwanted extensions from there.
- Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Google Chrome (Addon Removal Guide).
Reset Google Chrome (Restore to default setting)
- Close All the Google Chrome window.
- Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon and then click on settings (Note: menu icon is located right side top corner)
- Scroll down and click on “Show advanced settings…” You’ll get more option expend on the bottom of the page. (Note: , “Show advanced settings…” is located bottom of the setting page.)
- Now scroll down this setting page and click on “Reset Browser setting” button
- That’s it
- Now, your google chrome has been restored back to factory default settings.
- Click here to know more How to Reset Google Chrome to Default Setting (Reset Guide).
STEP 3 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy infection from “Windows Shortcuts” (Manually).
- Right click on the icon of Internet Explorer on desktop then select Properties option, you’ll get a small window, In that window, look on the target field, if you found “Ads by Buy To Joy” string in this target field, please remove all the string related to Ads by Buy To Joy.
(You may leave that step, if you don’t see this type of infection.)
- Repeat the same step with all the shortcuts of browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari) and from all the locations under Startmenu/Taskbar/Desktop etc.
STEP 4 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy malicious program from “Registry” (Manually).
- Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, Type Regedit on this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a Registry Editor window.
- Before modifying registry, we have to take backup of whole registry. click on computer icon on the top of Registry Editor, then click on File menu and then click on Export, then Save that registry backup file with any name.
- Click on Edit menu and then click on Find, you’ll get a find box to find any string in registry.
- Type Ads by Buy To Joy into find box, and click on Find Next button. if it found any entry with the name of Ads by Buy To Joy in result, so please replace all them to Google, or you may remove them if you found suspicious.
STEP 5 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy suspicious entries from “Computer Start-up” (Manually).
- Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, type MSCONFIG into this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a System Configuration window.
- Click on Services Tab, and un-check all the Ads by Buy To Joy entries.
- Click on Startup Tab, and un-check all the Ads by Buy To Joy entries.
- Then click on apply and then click on OK.
STEP 6 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy Adware registry entries using “AdwCleaner” (Free).
- Download Adwcleaner.exe, click here to download : Adwcleaner.exe, and then Run it. An Adwcleaner application will be started, It have the 4 buttons Scan / Clean /Report / Uninstall.
- Click on “Scan” Button to start the scanning on your computer. After finished the scan, it will show you results, actually adwcleaner has been found all the Unwated Programs / Adwares on your computer and all these have been selected here. so please look on them once and Un-check the Items which you don’t want to remove (only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Clean” button).
- Now click on “Clean” button to remove all that selected items – then follow their on screen instruction to complete it.
- Now after all done, it will be asking for reboot your computer, so please allow it to reboot. After reboot, you will get a notepad open automatically when computer get started, this notepad will be listed all the logs.
- After reboot you will be got rid of Ads by Buy To Joy from your computer.
STEP 7 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy browser hijacker using “Junkware Removal Tool” (Free).
- Download Junkware Removal Tool, click here to download : Junkware Removal Tool, and then Run it.
- A “Junkware Removal Tool” application will be started with the command line screen. Here it is asking you that “press any key to continue” to start the scanning, so “press any key” on your keyword to start the scanning and fixing process.
- Now “Junkware Removal Tool” is scanning your computer, After finished the scan, it will automatically open a text file which have listed all the logs, you can close that text file after reading.
- Now please Reboot your computer.
- After reboot, you’ll get removed Ads by Buy To Joy from your computer completely.
STEP 8 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy virus using “Hitman-Pro” Anti-Malware (Free for 30days).
- Download Hitman Pro, click here to download : Hitman pro-32bit – Hitman pro-64bit, and then Install it.
- Start Hitman Pro program.
- Click on Next button to start the scanning process and then follow their on screen instructions to complete it.
STEP 9 : Remove Ads by Buy To Joy Infection using “Malwarebytes” Anti-Malware (Free).
- Download Malwarebytes, click here to download : Malwarebytes, and then install it on your computer.
(If you want to use it free for forever , so don’t select the check box named as “Enable free trial of malwarebytes Antimalware PRO” while installing). - Now Start Malwarebytes application.
- Now select option “Perform quick scan” then click on “Scan” button to run a scan on your computer.
- After finished the scan process, click on “Show Results” button.
- It will show you a results page, actually Malwarebytes has been found all the Adwares / Malware on your computer. so please select all the found items and then click on “Remove Selected” button.
(You can deselect the selected items if you don’t want to remove any- because only selected items will be deleted when you click on “Remove Selected” button). - Now please Reboot your computer.
- After reboot, you’ll get removed Ads by Buy To Joy from your computer completely.