How to remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popup ads [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

If the browser often shows the Polar.phonesecuritypro.com undesired page then you need to know that your web-browser can be affected with the PUP (potentially unwanted program) from the adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software) category. This ad supported software changes the Microsoft Edge, FF, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome settings to display a large count of intrusive popups on all sites, including pages where previously you ads have never seen. These ads can be varied: pop-up windows, boxes, in-text ads, different sized banners and so on. What is more, the adware, that opens the Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements, can cause your Internet connection to be slow or freeze your internet browser so that the interface is not updated anymore.

The adware which redirects your web browser to unwanted Polar.phonesecuritypro.com web site, is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional utility. It is made with the sole purpose to open dozens of popup advertisements, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open web browser window. Moreover, the ‘ad supported’ software can substitute the legitimate sponsored links on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit harmful web-pages. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web pages, so the developers of adware, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the developers of the adware receive income.

In addition to that, as was mentioned earlier, some adware to also change all internet browsers shortcuts that located on your Desktop or Start menu. So, every affected shortcut file will try to reroute your browser to intrusive ad sites like Polar.phonesecuritypro.com, certain of which might be malicious. It can make the whole machine more vulnerable to hacker attacks.

We advise to get rid of the adware responsible for Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop up ads, as soon as you found this problem, as it can redirect your browser to web-resources which may load other malicious software on your machine.

Remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-ups (removal tutorial)

There present several free adware removal tools. Also it is possible to remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com redirect manually. But we suggest to combine all these solutions below into the one removal algorithm. Follow the steps of the guidance. Some of the steps below will require you to exit this page. So, please read the guidance carefully, after that bookmark or print it for later reference.

To remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com, follow the steps below:

1. Manual Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop up ads removal
   • Remove potentially unwanted apps through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel
   • Get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop ups from Internet Explorer
   • Remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements from Chrome
   • Remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop up ads from Mozilla Firefox
   • Fix web browser shortcuts, altered by ‘ad supported’ software
   • Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
2. How to get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popup ads with free applications
   • Use Zemana Anti-malware to get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com
   • Run Malwarebytes to remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements
   • Scan your PC and get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements with AdwCleaner
3. How to block Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popups
4. How did Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements get on your computer
5. To sum up

Manual Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop up ads removal

Most common adware may be uninstalled without any antivirus programs. The manual adware removal is tutorial that will teach you how to get rid of the Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements.

Remove potentially unwanted apps through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel

First, go to MS Windows Control Panel and remove dubious apps, all applications you do not remember installing. It is important to pay the most attention to applications you installed just before Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popup ads appeared on your web-browser. If you don’t know what a program does, look for the answer on the Internet.

Make sure you have closed all web-browsers and other applications. Press CTRL, ALT, DEL keys together to open the MS Windows Task Manager.

Click on the “Processes” tab, look for something suspicious that is the adware related to Polar.phonesecuritypro.com redirect then right-click it and select “End Task” or “End Process” option. In many cases, malware masks itself to avoid detection by imitating legitimate Microsoft Windows processes. A process is particularly suspicious: it’s taking up a lot of memory (despite the fact that you closed all of your programs), its name is not familiar to you (if you’re in doubt, you can always check the application by doing a search for its name in Google, Yahoo or Bing).

Next, delete any unknown and suspicious apps from your Control panel.

Windows 10, 8.1, 8

Now, click the Windows button, type “Control panel” in search and press Enter. Select “Programs and Features”, then “Uninstall a program”.

Look around the entire list of applications installed on your personal computer. Most likely, one of them is the adware that causes multiple intrusive pop-up advertisements. Choose the suspicious program or the program that name is not familiar to you and uninstall it.

Windows Vista, 7

From the “Start” menu in Microsoft Windows, select “Control Panel”. Under the “Programs” icon, choose “Uninstall a program”.

Select the suspicious or any unknown programs, then press “Uninstall/Change” button to delete this undesired program from your PC.

Windows XP

Click the “Start” button, select “Control Panel” option. Click on “Add/Remove Programs”.

Choose an unwanted application, then press “Change/Remove” button. Follow the prompts.

Get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop ups from Internet Explorer

By resetting Internet Explorer internet browser you return your internet browser settings to its default state. This is first when troubleshooting problems that might have been caused by adware related to Polar.phonesecuritypro.com ads.

First, launch the Internet Explorer, press ) button. Next, click “Internet Options” as on the image below.

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

You will now need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. It will remove adware that causes web-browsers to open undesired Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements, disable malicious and ad-supported browser’s extensions and restore the Internet Explorer’s settings such as homepage, search engine and new tab to default state.

Remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements from Chrome

Reset Chrome settings is a simple way to get rid of the hijacker infections, harmful and ‘ad-supported’ extensions, as well as to recover the web-browser’s start page, search engine by default and new tab that have been modified by ad supported software that causes multiple annoying advertisements.

Open the Google Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal dotes (). It will show the drop-down menu. Choose More Tools, then click Extensions.

Carefully browse through the list of installed extensions. If the list has the add-on labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following steps: Remove Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy otherwise, just go to the step below.

Open the Chrome main menu again, press to “Settings” option.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Advanced” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as shown on the screen below and click the “Reset settings to their original defaults” button.

Confirm your action, press the “Reset” button.

Remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop up ads from Mozilla Firefox

The Mozilla Firefox reset will keep your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, web form auto-fill data, recover preferences and security settings, get rid of redirects to annoying Polar.phonesecuritypro.com web-site and adware.

Start the Firefox and click the menu button (it looks like three stacked lines) at the top right of the web-browser screen. Next, press the question-mark icon at the bottom of the drop-down menu. It will display the slide-out menu.

Select the “Troubleshooting information”. If you’re unable to access the Help menu, then type “about:support” in your address bar and press Enter. It bring up the “Troubleshooting Information” page as on the image below.

Click the “Refresh Firefox” button at the top right of the Troubleshooting Information page. Select “Refresh Firefox” in the confirmation prompt. The Firefox will begin a procedure to fix your problems that caused by the adware that causes multiple unwanted ads. When, it’s finished, press the “Finish” button.

Fix web browser shortcuts, altered by ‘ad supported’ software

Important to know, most antimalware apps which are able to get rid of ‘ad supported’ software that responsible for the appearance of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements, but unable to detect and recover changed shortcut files. So, you need to fix the desktop shortcuts for your Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, MS Edge and Firefox browsers manually.

Click the right mouse button to a desktop shortcut file that you use to launch your web-browser. Next, select the “Properties” option. Important: necessary to click on the desktop shortcut file for the web browser that is rerouted to the Polar.phonesecuritypro.com or other annoying web page.

Further, necessary to look at the text that is written in the “Target” field. The adware that causes unwanted Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements can change the contents of this field, which describes the file to be start when you open your web 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 similar to “http://site.addres” that has been added here, then you should remove it, as shown in the following example.

Next, press the “OK” button to save the changes. Now, when you start the browser from this desktop shortcut, it does not occur automatically redirect on the Polar.phonesecuritypro.com site or any other undesired web-pages. Once the step is complete, we recommend to go to the next step.

Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks

If the undesired Polar.phonesecuritypro.com web-site opens automatically on Windows startup or at equal time intervals, then you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and get rid of all the tasks that have been created by malicious program.

Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard together. This shows a prompt that titled as 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. Please select the first task, its properties will be show just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your personal computer. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address”, then remove this malicious task. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it is a component of the ‘ad-supported’ apps, then this task also should be removed.

Having defined the task that you want to remove, then 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 which have been created by ‘ad-supported’ application. Once is finished, close the Task Scheduler window.

How to get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popup ads with free applications

Manual removal is not always as effective as you might think. Often, even the most experienced users can not completely get rid of adware that responsible for internet browser redirect to the intrusive Polar.phonesecuritypro.com web-site. So, we recommend to check your machine for any remaining malicious components with free ad supported software removal applications below.

Use Zemana Anti-malware to get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com

We suggest using the Zemana Anti-malware. You can download and install Zemana Anti-malware to search for and delete Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements from the Google Chrome, IE, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge web-browsers. When installed and updated, the malicious software remover will automatically scan and detect all threats exist on your PC.

Now you can set up and use Zemana AntiMalware to get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com redirect from your internet browser by following the steps below:

Click the link below to download Zemana Anti-Malware (ZAM) installation package named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup on your personal computer. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.

Launch the installer after it has been downloaded successfully and then follow the prompts to install this utility on your computer.

During installation you can change some settings, but we suggest you don’t make any changes to default settings.

When installation is finished, this malicious software removal utility will automatically launch and update itself. You will see its main window as shown on the image below.

Now press the “Scan” button . Zemana utility will begin scanning the whole PC system to find out adware that causes a lot of undesired Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop ups. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient. While the Zemana Free is scanning, you may see how many objects it has identified either as being malware.

When the scan is finished, Zemana Anti Malware will show a scan report. All found items will be marked. You can get rid of them all by simply press “Next” button.

The Zemana Anti-Malware will delete ‘ad supported’ software which created to redirect your web browser to various ad web-sites such as Polar.phonesecuritypro.com and move threats to the program’s quarantine. Once the clean up is finished, you may be prompted to reboot your personal computer to make the change take effect.

Run Malwarebytes to remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements

We advise using the Malwarebytes Free. You can download and install Malwarebytes to scan for adware and thereby remove Polar.phonesecuritypro.com ads from your web-browsers. When installed and updated, the free malicious software remover will automatically check and detect all threats exist on the PC.

Download MalwareBytes from the following link. Save it directly to your MS Windows Desktop.

Once downloading is complete, close all apps and windows on your PC. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s called mb3-setup as shown on the image below.

When the installation begins, you’ll see the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Malwarebytes on your personal computer.

Once installation is complete, you’ll see window as displayed in the figure below.

Now click the “Scan Now” button to begin scanning your computer for the ad-supported software that causes unwanted Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop-up advertisements. Depending on your personal computer, the scan may take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. When a threat is found, the count of the security threats will change accordingly.

Once MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) has completed scanning, a list of all items detected is created. Review the scan results and then press “Quarantine Selected” button.

The Malwarebytes will now remove ad supported software that made to reroute your browser to various ad web-pages such as Polar.phonesecuritypro.com and add threats to the Quarantine. When the clean-up is complete, you may be prompted to restart your machine.

The following video explains step-by-step instructions on how to delete hijacker infection, adware and other malicious software with MalwareBytes.

Scan your PC and get rid of Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a free tool that can identify adware that causes lots of intrusive Polar.phonesecuritypro.com pop ups. It’s not always easy to locate all the junk apps that your PC might have picked up on the Internet. AdwCleaner will search for the ad supported software, browser hijackers and other malware you need to delete.

Download AdwCleaner from the link below. Save it on your Desktop.

Download and use AdwCleaner on your PC system. Once started, press “Scan” button to perform a system scan with this utility for the adware that cause undesired Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popup advertisements to appear. Depending on your computer, the scan may take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. While the AdwCleaner utility is scanning, you may see how many objects it has identified as being infected by malicious software.. When AdwCleaner has finished scanning your PC, AdwCleaner will show a list of found threats. Once you’ve selected what you want to remove from your computer, press Clean button.

All-in-all, AdwCleaner is a fantastic free tool to clean your PC from any unwanted software. The AdwCleaner is portable program that meaning, you do not need to install it to use it. AdwCleaner is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Windows operating system from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 10. Both 64-bit and 32-bit systems are supported.

How to block Polar.phonesecuritypro.com popups

If you surf the Net, you can’t avoid malvertising. But you can protect your web browser against it. Download and use an ad-blocker application. AdGuard is an adblocker which can filter out a large number of of the malvertising, blocking dynamic scripts from loading malicious content.

1. Download AdGuard application from the following link. Save it directly to your Microsoft Windows Desktop.
   

   Adguard download
   26658 downloads
   Version: 6.4
   Author: © Adguard
   Category: Security tools
   Update: November 15, 2018
   
2. After the downloading process is done, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” program window. Follow the prompts.
3. Once the installation is complete, click “Skip” to close the installation application and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial that will allow you get to know AdGuard better.
4. In most cases, the default settings are enough and you don’t need to change anything. Each time, when you start your personal computer, AdGuard will start automatically and block popup ads, Polar.phonesecuritypro.com redirect, as well as other harmful 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 icon named AdGuard, which is located on your desktop.

How did Polar.phonesecuritypro.com advertisements get on your computer

Many programs made to display a large amount of undesired ads within your PC’s web-browser. So, when you installing free applications, carefully read the disclaimers, select the Custom or Advanced installation method to watch for optional software that are being installed, because some of the applications are potentially unwanted software such as this ‘ad supported’ software which redirects your web-browser to undesired Polar.phonesecuritypro.com web-page.

To sum up

Once you’ve finished the guide above, your PC system should be free from adware responsible for redirecting your web browser to Polar.phonesecuritypro.com site and other malicious software. The Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer will no longer redirect you to various annoying web-sites similar to Polar.phonesecuritypro.com. Unfortunately, if the instructions does not help you, then you have caught a new ‘ad supported’ software, and then the best way – ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.