How to remove nationalopinionsurvey.com [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Are you start your favorite web browser and don’t see usual homepage, which is set earlier? The nationalopinionsurvey.com ads is the first thing that pop up once you start your browser? It means that your personal computer has become the victim of malware from the group of adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software). If you get it on your computer, this adware can alter the browser’s settings such as start page and search provider by default and install malicious extension that will open a ton of unwanted pop-up ads within the Chrome, FF, Internet Explorer and Edge screen. It’s important, don’t click on these ads, as they can lead you to more dangerous or misleading web sites. The best option is to use the step-by-step instructions posted below to free your PC system and thereby delete www.nationalopinionsurvey.com pop-up ads.

The adware can change the settings of the FF, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and MS Edge, but often that a dangerous software like this can also infect all types of browsers by changing their desktop shortcuts. Thus forcing the user each time launch the web browser to see nationalopinionsurvey.com unwanted advertisements.

The ad supported software is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional tool. It is created with the sole purpose to display dozens of popup ads, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open browser window. So, the nationalopinionsurvey.com is just one of the many web-pages of the so-called ‘ad-support’ type. It’s designed to fill the web browser’s constant stream of advertisements, or reroute the web-browser to not expected and intrusive advertising web sites. Moreover, the adware can substitute the legitimate ads on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit dangerous sites. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web-pages, so the creators of ‘ad-supported’ software, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the authors of the adware receive income. It is the so-called ‘Pay-Per-Click’ method.

So, obviously, you need to delete the adware as soon as possible. Use the free guide below. This guide will help you clean your system and thereby get rid of the nationalopinionsurvey.com unwanted pop-up ads.

How does nationalopinionsurvey.com ads get installed onto personal computer

The adware usually come bundled with other free applications that you download off of the Internet. Once started, it will infect your PC system and configure your browser’s to show lots of the nationalopinionsurvey.com unwanted ads without your permission. To avoid infection, in the Setup wizard, you should be be proactive and carefully read the ‘Terms of use’, the ‘license agreement’ and other setup screens, as well as to always choose the ‘Manual’ or ‘Advanced’ setup mode, when installing anything downloaded from the World Wide Web.

How to manually remove nationalopinionsurvey.com advertisements

This step-by-step instructions will help you get rid of nationalopinionsurvey.com . These nationalopinionsurvey.com removal steps work for the Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and IE, as well as every version of Windows operating system. Some of the steps may require you to close the web browser or reboot your computer. So, bookmark or print it for later reference.

1. Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
2. Remove nationalopinionsurvey.com ads from Google Chrome
3. Get rid of nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect from Mozilla Firefox
4. Remove nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect from IE
5. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect
6. Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

We recommend that you start the system cleaning procedure by checking the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown or suspicious programs. This is a very important step, as mentioned above, very often the malicious software such as ad-supported software and browser hijackers may be bundled with freeware. Uninstall the unwanted applications may remove the unwanted ads or web-browser redirect to unknown or unwanted pages.

It’ll open the Windows Control Panel as shown in the following image.

Next, click “Uninstall a program” It will open a list of all applications. Scroll through the all list, and delete any suspicious and unknown software. To quickly find the latest installed programs, we recommend sort applications by date of installation in the Control panel.

Remove nationalopinionsurvey.com ads from Google Chrome

Like other modern web browsers, the Chrome has the ability to reset the settings to their default values and thereby get rid of the redirect to nationalopinionsurvey.com annoying advertisements which is caused by the ad supported software.

At first, start the Chrome. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It will appear the main menu. Click on the option named “Settings”. Another way to show the Chrome’s settings – type chrome://settings in the browser adress bar and press Enter.

The web browser will open the settings screen. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the “Reset settings” section is visible, as shown in the figure below and click the “Reset settings” button.

The Chrome will show the confirmation dialog box. You need to confirm your action, click the “Reset” button. The program will run the task of cleaning. Once it’s done, the browser settings including the ‘block pop-ups’ option back to the values that have been when the Chrome was first installed on your system.

Get rid of nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect from Mozilla Firefox

First, run the Firefox. Next, press the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It will open the drop-down menu. Next, press the “Help” button ().

In the Help menu, click the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page, click “Refresh Firefox” button.

Confirm your action, click the “Refresh Firefox”.

Remove nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect from IE

First, start the IE, then click button. Next, press “Internet Options” as shown on the image below.

In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, click the “Reset” button. The Internet Explorer will open the “Reset Internet Explorer” settings dialog box. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and click Reset button.

You will now need to restart your personal computer for the changes to take effect. It will restore the IE’s settings like startpage, new tab page and default search engine to default state, disable ad-supported web browser’s extensions and thereby delete the redirect to nationalopinionsurvey.com annoying page.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect

Click the right mouse button to a desktop shortcut which you use to open your web-browser. Next, select the “Properties” option. Important: necessary to click on the desktop shortcut for the internet browser which is redirected to the nationalopinionsurvey.com or other annoying web-page.

Further, necessary to look at the text which is written in the “Target” field. The adware can rewrite the contents of this field, which describes the file to be start when you launch your browser. Depending on the web-browser you are using, there should be: Google Chrome: chrome.exe, Opera: opera.exe, Firefox: firefox.exe, Internet Explorer: iexplore.exe. If you are seeing an unknown text such as “http://site.address” that has been added here, then you should delete it, as shown in the following image.

Next, click the “OK” button to save the changes. Now, when you run the internet browser from this desktop shortcut, it does not occur automatically reroute on the nationalopinionsurvey.com site or any other unwanted pages that is advertised by the adware. Once the step is finished, we recommend to go to the next step.

Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

If the annoying nationalopinionsurvey.com web site opens automatically on Windows startup or at equal time intervals, then you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all the tasks that have been created by malicious programs.

Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard at the same time. This displays a dialog box that called Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and press OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, like below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be open just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your machine. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address”, then you need delete it. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it is a component of the malicious programs, then this task also should be removed.

Having defined the task that you want to get rid of, then press on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown in the figure below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ program. Once is done, close the Task Scheduler window.

How to remove nationalopinionsurvey.com automatically

Manual removal is not always as effective as you might think. Often, even the most experienced users can not completely remove nationalopinionsurvey.com from the infected system. This is because the ‘ad-supported’ software can hide its components which are difficult for you to find out and remove completely. This may lead to the fact that after some time, the ad-supported software again infect your machine and it will start to display unwanted nationalopinionsurvey.com popup ads. Moreover, I want to note that it is not always safe to get rid of ‘ad-supported’ software manually, if you do not have much experience in setting up and configuring the machine.

I suggest using the Malwarebytes Free which are completely clean your computer. It’s an advanced malware removal program developed by (c) Malwarebytes lab. This program uses the world’s most popular anti-malware technology. It’s able to help you remove browser hijackers, malware, adware, toolbars, ransomware and other security threats from your system for free.

Now, click the link below to download Malwarebytes Free on your PC system. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.

When the download is done, close all applications on your PC system. Next, open the setup file named mb3-setup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up like below, click the Yes button.

It will display the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Malwarebytes on your computer. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is complete successfully, click Finish button. Then Malwarebytes will automatically start and you can see its main screen as shown below.

Now click the “Scan Now” button . This will begin scanning the whole computer to find out adware that cause a redirect to nationalopinionsurvey.com. When the adware or malware is found, the number of the detected objects will change accordingly. Wait until the the scanning is done. Please be patient.

Once the system scan is finished, you can check all threats detected on your system. Make sure all entries have “checkmark” and press “Quarantine Selected” button. The Malwarebytes will start removing malware and adware which cause nationalopinionsurvey.com pop-up ads. Once disinfection is done, you may be prompted to reboot your system.

I suggest you look at the following video, which completely explains the process of using the Malwarebytes program to remove ad-supported software and other malware.

How to block nationalopinionsurvey.com

To increase your security and protect your system against new unwanted advertisements and malicious web pages, you need to use an application that blocks access to dangerous ads and web pages. Moreover, the program can block the show of intrusive advertising, that also leads to faster loading of web-pages and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

1. Download AdGuard program from the following link.
   
   

   Adguard download
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   Version: 6.4
   Author: © Adguard
   Category: Security tools
   Update: November 15, 2018
   
2. Once the download is finished, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” window. Follow the prompts.
3. When the installation is done, click “Skip” to close it and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see a quick tutorial that will assist you get to know AdGuard better.
4. In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you run your PC, AdGuard will start automatically and block pop-up ads, nationalopinionsurvey.com redirects, as well as other malicious or misleading web sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, which is located on your Windows desktop.

Scan your machine and remove nationalopinionsurvey.com with AdwCleaner.

This removal program is free and easy to use. It can scan and delete adware, browser hijackers, malware and unwanted toolbars in Google Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge web browsers and thereby restore back their default settings (start page and search provider by default). AdwCleaner is powerful enough to find and delete malicious registry entries and files that are hidden on the computer.

Download AdwCleaner tool by clicking on the link below. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.

When the download is finished, open the file location and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will run the AdwCleaner tool and you will see a screen like below. If the User Account Control prompt will ask you want to show the application, click Yes button to continue.

Now, press the “Scan” to perform a system scan for the adware that cause a redirect to nationalopinionsurvey.com ads.

When the system scan is finished, it will show a list of all items detected by this utility as shown in the following image.

You need to press “Clean” button. It will show a dialog box, click “OK” to start the cleaning procedure. When the clean up is finished, the AdwCleaner may ask you to reboot your computer. After reboot, the AdwCleaner will show the log file.

All the above steps are shown in detail in the following video guide.

Finish words

After completing the step-by-step instructions outlined above, your PC system should be clean from malware and ‘ad-supported’ software. The Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Microsoft Edge will no longer display nationalopinionsurvey.com unwanted popup ads and redirect you to unknown web-pages. Unfortunately, if the step-by-step guide does not help you, then you have caught a new type of ad supported software, and then the best way – ask for help.

1. Download HijackThis by clicking on the link below and save it to your Desktop.
   

   HijackThis download
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   Version: 2.0.5
   Author: OpenSource
   Category: Security tools
   Update: November 7, 2015
   
2. Double-click on the HijackThis icon. Next press “Do a system scan only” button.
3. Once the system scan is finished, the scan button will read “Save log”, press it. Save this log to your desktop.
4. Create a Myantispyware account here. Once you’ve registered, check your e-mail for a confirmation link, and confirm your account. After that, login.
5. Copy and paste the contents of the HijackThis log into your post. If you are posting for the first time, please start a new thread by using the “New Topic” button in the Spyware Removal forum. When posting your HJT log, try to give us some details about your problems, so we can try to help you more accurately.
6. Wait for one of our trained “Security Team” or Site Administrator to provide you with knowledgeable assistance tailored to your problem with the annoying nationalopinionsurvey.com redirect.