How to remove go.ad2up.com redirect [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

The go.ad2up.com is an one of the many advertising web pages, which can be opened automatically each time you surf the World Wide Web. The reason of automatic opening of this web page is an adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software), which was set on your personal computer without your consent. Because, the ‘ad supported’ software is often used to open a lot of unwanted popup ads within the Chrome, FF, Internet Explorer and MS Edge’s screen. As, the advertisers do not disdain to use any methods to promote their sites and attract new users. Below we explain how to remove adware and thereby get rid of go.ad2up.com annoying ads from your internet browser.

Most often, the ‘ad supported’ software affects the most common internet browsers like the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, FF and Edge. But such the harmful software as well may infect another internet browsers by changing its shortcuts (adding an argument like ‘http://site.address’ into Target field of a internet browser’s shortcut). So every time you start the web-browser, it will reroute to the unwanted go.ad2up.com page. Even if you setup a new homepage, an unwanted web-page will be the first thing you see when you start the Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Internet Explorer.

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 open dozens of pop-ups, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open browser window. So, the go.ad2up.com is just one of the many pages of the so-called ‘ad-support’ type. It is designed to fill the browser’s constant stream of advertisements, or reroute the 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 web pages. 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 ad supported software receive income. It’s the so-called ‘Pay-Per-Click’ method.

So, obviously, you need to get rid of the adware as soon as possible. Use the free step-by-step guide below. This guide will help you clean your system and thereby remove the go.ad2up.com annoying pop-ups.

How can you prevent your machine from the attack of go.ad2up.com pop-up ads

Most commonly, the adware is bundled within the installation packages from a free hosting and file sharing web sites. So, install a free programs is a a good chance that you will find some bundled adware. If you do not know how to avoid it, then use a simple trick. During installation, choose the Custom or Advanced installation option. Next, click ‘Decline’ button and clear all checkboxes on offers that ask you to install an unknown applications. Moreover, please carefully read Term of use and User agreement before installing any programs or otherwise you can end up with another unwanted application on your computer like this adware which reroute the Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and MS Edge onto the annoying go.ad2up.com web page.

How to manually remove go.ad2up.com ads

This useful removal guide for the go.ad2up.com redirect. The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to delete go.ad2up.com advertisements 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 go.ad2up.com from Firefox
3. Remove go.ad2up.com redirect from Google Chrome
4. Remove go.ad2up.com advertisements from Internet Explorer
5. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove go.ad2up.com redirect
6. Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

The best way to start the PC system cleanup is to remove unknown and suspicious applications. Using the Windows Control Panel you can do this quickly and easily. This step, in spite of its simplicity, should not be ignored, because the removing of unneeded applications can clean up your browser from pop-up ads, hijackers and so on.

1. If you are using Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 then press Windows key, click Search. Type “Control panel”and press Enter.
2. If you are using Windows XP, Vista, 7, then press “Start” button and click “Control Panel”.
3. It’ll display the Windows Control Panel.
4. Click “Uninstall a program” under Programs category.
5. You will see a list of all installed software.
6. Scroll through the all list, and delete suspicious and unknown programs. To quickly find the latest installed software, we recommend sort programs by date.

See more details in the video instructions below.

Delete go.ad2up.com from Firefox

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

In the Help menu, press 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 go.ad2up.com redirect from Google Chrome

Open the Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It opens the drop-down menu. Next, press the “Settings” option.

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, like below and click the “Reset settings” button.

Confirm your action, click the “Reset” button.

Remove go.ad2up.com advertisements from Internet Explorer

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

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

You will now need to restart your PC system for the changes to take effect. It will restore the IE’s settings such as start page and search provider by default to default state, disable ad-supported internet browser’s extensions and thereby get rid of the reroute to go.ad2up.com annoying web-site.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove go.ad2up.com redirect

When the adware is started, it can also modify the web-browser’s shortcuts, adding an argument similar “http://site.address” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you run the web-browser, it will be redirected to an annoying ads.

To clear the 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 which 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 web browsers, as they may be infected too.

Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

If the unwanted go.ad2up.com web-page 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 adware.

Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard at the same time. This opens a prompt that titled with 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 image below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be show just below automatically. Next, press the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your computer. 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 unwanted applications, 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 like below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by unwanted applications. Once is complete, close the Task Scheduler window.

Remove go.ad2up.com redirect automatically

You can get rid of go.ad2up.com redirect automatically with a help of Malwarebytes Free. We recommend this free malware removal tool because it can easily get rid of ad supported software, browser hijackers, potentially unwanted programs and toolbars with all their components such as files, folders and registry entries.

Download Malwarebytes Free on your system by clicking on the link below. Save it on your Desktop.

Once the downloading process is finished, close all windows on your computer. Further, launch the file named mb3-setup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up as on the image below, click the Yes button.

It will show the “Setup wizard” that will assist you install Malwarebytes on the computer. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.

Once the installation is finished successfully, press Finish button. Then Malwarebytes will automatically start and you can see its main window as shown on the image below.

Next, click the “Scan Now” button for checking your PC for the malware and adware that cause the go.ad2up.com advertisements. When a threat is found, the number of the detected objects will change accordingly. Wait until the the scanning is finished. Please be patient.

Once the scan is finished, you can check all threats detected on your PC system. Make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Quarantine Selected” button.

The Malwarebytes will start removing malware and ‘ad supported’ software which cause go.ad2up.com redirect. Once the disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to restart your personal computer. I recommend you look at the following video, which completely explains the procedure of using the Malwarebytes to get rid of adware and other malicious software.

How to stop go.ad2up.com

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

1. Download AdGuard program from the following link.
   

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2. Once downloading is done, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” window. Follow the prompts.
3. When the setup is finished, click “Skip” to close it and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see a quick tutorial that will allow 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 start your computer, AdGuard will run automatically and block advertisements, go.ad2up.com redirects, as well as other harmful or misleading web-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, that is located on your Windows desktop.

Scan your PC system and remove go.ad2up.com redirect with AdwCleaner.

This removal program is free and easy to use. It can scan and remove adware, browser hijackers, malware and unwanted toolbars in Chrome, Internet Explorer, FF and Edge browsers and thereby restore back their default settings (homepage and search engine by default). AdwCleaner is powerful enough to find and delete malicious registry entries and files that are hidden on the PC system.

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

When downloading is complete, open the directory in which you saved it and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will launch the AdwCleaner tool and you will see a screen as shown 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” to begin scanning your personal computer for the ad-supported software which cause a redirect to go.ad2up.com ads.

When it has finished scanning, it will display a list of all items detected by this utility as shown in the figure below.

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

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

Finish words

Once you have finished the step-by-step instructions outlined above, your machine should be free from malware and adware. The Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Edge will no longer open go.ad2up.com annoying ads or redirect you to unwanted web-sites. 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 in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.