Ads by Alex is an adware that unexpectedly opens pop-ups filled with ads while you browse the net. It can also show banners or built-in ads showing malicious although attractive offers.
These ads often show incredible offers (too good to be true), usually related to whatever website you’re visiting at that moment. As interesting as those might sound, Powered by Alex will quickly become annoying and intrusive, showing its ads all the time without you asking for it. Here’s a typical ad example inserted on Google:
What Ads by Alex is looking for is to earn as much money as possible for its creator. To achieve this it will artificially increase web traffic towards certain websites, collect personal data to be sold afterwards and show links and ads for sponsored partners.
Once installed on your system, Ads by Alex will start showing ads, pop-up windows or turning text shown on every website you visit into blue/green links.
Unwanted programs such as this, usually promote other malicious software like toolbars, tune-up programs, and other tools like these, all to earn even more money. Use our guide and execute every step on it to get rid of Ads by Alex once and for all.
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