How to remove exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz redirect [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

The exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz web-site appeared on your system without any notice? After that, you’re faced with the fact that your internet browser is now rerouted to other unwanted web-sites and filled with a variety of advertisements and banners. The cause of all your problems with your computer is adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software) that has been installed on many systems around the world without users permission, so you’re one of many. Most probably, you do not even know how and where this ad-supported software has got into your personal computer. In the instructions below, we will explain all the general features of adware and its typical behavior on the PC, as well as effective methods for manually removing it from your system.

Most often, the adware affects the most common internet browsers such as the Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and MS Edge. But such the malicious software as well may infect another web browsers by changing its shortcuts (adding an argument such as ‘http://site.address’ into Target field of a web browser’s shortcut). So every time you run the web-browser, it’ll redirect to the unwanted exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz web-page. Even if you setup a new homepage, an unwanted web-page will be the first thing you see when you start the Chrome, Internet Explorer, FF and Edge.

While your PC system is infected with the ‘ad supported’ software, the Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer may be redirected to exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz annoying web site. Of course, the ad supported software may not cause damages to your files or Windows system, but it may open lots of annoying ads. These advertisements will be injected within the content of web-pages that are you opening in your web browser and can be varied: pop-up ads, in-text ads, different sized banners, offers to install an questionable software. The advertisements will appear on all web-sites, including web pages where previously you have never seen any advertising banners. In this case, when you open any web-page, you may see in your web browser’s status bar the following messages: ‘Waiting for exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz’, ‘Transferring data from exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz’, ‘Looking up exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz’, ‘Read exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz’, ‘Connected to exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz’.

Instructions, which is shown below, will allow you to clean your machine from the adware as well as get rid of exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz unwanted pop-ups from the Chrome, FF, IE and Edge and other internet browsers.

How did you get infected with exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz pop-up ads

The ad supported software usually spreads bundled with various free programs. Most commonly, it may be bundled within the installation packages from Softonic, Cnet, Soft32, Brothersoft or other similar web sites. So, you should run any files downloaded from the Internet with great caution, read the User agreement, Software license and Terms of use. In the procedure of installing a new program, you should select a Manual, Advanced or Custom installation mode to control what components and additional programs to be installed, otherwise you run the risk of infecting your PC system with an ad-supported software like this that shows a large number of the exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz ads within the Chrome, IE, FF and Edge.

How to manually remove exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz

This useful removal guide for the exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz . The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to get rid of exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz let us know how you managed by sending us your comments please.

1. Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
2. Delete exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz advertisements from Mozilla Firefox
3. Remove exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz advertisements from Google Chrome
4. Get rid of exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz pop-up ads from IE
5. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to delete exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz redirect
6. Delete unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

Press Windows key , then click Search . Type “Control panel”and press Enter. If you using Windows XP or Windows 7, then press “Start” and select “Control Panel”. It will show the Windows Control Panel like below.

Next, click “Uninstall a program”
It’ll display a list of all applications. Scroll through the all list and remove any suspicious and unknown software.

Delete exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz advertisements from Mozilla Firefox

If the Mozilla Firefox settings have been modified by the adware, then resetting it to the default state can help you to delete the redirect onto exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz web page.

First, start the FF and press button. It will display the drop-down menu on the right-part of the internet browser. Next, click the Help button () as shown in the figure below.

In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the web browser address bar and press Enter. It will show the “Troubleshooting Information” page as shown in the figure below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, press the “Refresh Firefox” button.

It will open the confirmation prompt, click the “Refresh Firefox” button. The FF will begin a task to fix your problems that caused by the adware. Once it’s finished, click the “Finish” button

Remove exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz advertisements from Google Chrome

Like other modern browsers, the Google Chrome has the ability to reset the settings to their default values and thereby get rid of the redirect to exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz annoying advertisements that is caused by the ad-supported software.

At first, launch the Google 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 open the Google Chrome’s settings – type chrome://settings in the web-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 on the image below and click the “Reset settings” button.

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

Get rid of exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz pop-up ads from IE

To delete the exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz pop-ups you need to reset the Microsoft Internet Explorer to the state, that was when the Windows was installed on your PC.

First, run the Microsoft Internet Explorer, then click ‘gear’ icon . It will show the drop-down menu on the right part of the internet browser, then click the “Internet Options” as shown below.

In the “Internet Options” screen, you need to select the “Advanced” tab and click the “Reset” button. The IE will open the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” dialog box as shown below. Next, click the “Delete personal settings” check box to select it. After that, click the “Reset” button.

Once the process is finished, click “Close” button. Close the IE and reboot your PC system for the changes to take effect. This step will help you to restore your internet browser’s settings to default state and disable ‘ad-supported’ extensions.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to delete exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz redirect

Once the adware is started, it can also change the browser’s shortcuts, adding an argument like “http://site.address” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you run the browser, it will be rerouted to an unwanted ads.

To clear the web-browser shortcut, right-click to it and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text that starts with “http://” which has been added here. You need to remove it.

When the argument is removed, click the OK button. You need to clean all shortcuts of all your browsers, as they may be infected too.

Delete unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the ad supported software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you run your PC system, it will display exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz annoying web-site. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ programs.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard together. It will show a prompt that called Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown on the screen below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be display just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need get rid of this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it is a component of the malicious application, then this task also should be removed.

Further click on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown on the screen below.

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

How to delete exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz automatically

Manual removal is not always as effective as you might think. Often, even the most experienced users can not completely remove exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz advertisements from the infected machine. 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 adware again infect your system and it will start to display unwanted exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz pop-up ads. Moreover, I want to note that it is not always safe to remove adware manually, if you do not have much experience in setting up and configuring the machine.

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

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

Once downloading is finished, close all applications on your system. Next, open the setup file named mb3-setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up like below, click the Yes button.

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

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

Now press the “Scan Now” button to perform a system scan for the adware that cause a redirect to exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz. Once the ad-supported software or malware is found, the number of the detected objects will change accordingly. Wait until the the checking is done. Please be patient.

Once the scan is finished, you can check all threats detected on your computer. Make sure all entries have “checkmark” and press “Quarantine Selected” button. The Malwarebytes will begin removing malware and ad supported software that cause exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz ads. Once disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to reboot your PC system.

I suggest you look at the following video, which completely explains the procedure of using the Malwarebytes program to remove adware and other malware.

Stop exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz pop-ups and other annoying web sites

To increase your security and protect your computer against new unwanted ads and malicious web-sites, you need to use program that blocks access to harmful ads and web-sites. Moreover, the application can stop the display of intrusive advertising, that also leads to faster loading of web-pages and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

Download AdGuard program by clicking on the following link.

When downloading is finished, start the file named adguardInstaller. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen like below.

Follow the prompts. Once the installation is complete, you will see a window as on the image below.

You can click “Skip” to close the setup program and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you run your system, AdGuard will start automatically and stop pop-up ads, web-pages such as exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz, as well as other dangerous or misleading pages. 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 computer and get rid of exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz advertisements with AdwCleaner.

This removal program is free and easy to use. It can scan and remove ad supported software, browser hijackers, malware and unwanted toolbars in Google Chrome, IE, Mozilla Firefox and MS Edge browsers and thereby restore back their default settings (startpage, new tab page and default search engine). AdwCleaner is powerful enough to find and remove malicious registry entries and files that are hidden on the system.

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

Once the download is done, open the file location and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will run the AdwCleaner utility and you will see a screen like below. If the User Account Control dialog box will ask you want to display the program, click Yes button to continue.

Now, click the “Scan” for scanning your personal computer for the ad supported software which cause a redirect to exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz ads.

Once the system scan is done, it will open a list of all items detected by this tool as shown on the screen below.

You need to click “Clean” button. It will open a prompt, click “OK” to start the cleaning procedure. When the clean up is done, the AdwCleaner may ask you to restart your computer. After restart, the AdwCleaner will open the log file.

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

Finish words

Once you have finished the few simple steps shown above, your PC system should be clean from malware and adware. The Firefox, Chrome, IE and MS Edge will no longer show exclusiverewards.retrenches.xyz annoying pop-ups or redirect you to unwanted web pages. Unfortunately, if the step-by-step instructions does not help you, then you have caught a new type of ad-supported software, and then the best way – ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.