Remove Holnia

Holnia is the name of a malware usually distributed attached to some other software install process. This distribution technique makes it possible for many adware to be installed in computers whose users would never had installed it by choice.

Holnia’s goals are, to broadcast as much ads as possible when you’re browsing the net, and to analyze your every move online.

These ads can be seen as pop-ups, banners, or green/blue underlined words turned into links directly among the content of every website you visit, all of them tagged as Ads by Holnia or Powered by Holnia.

Besides ruining your browsing experience, Holnia also takes the opportunity to save important data about the way you move online, saving keywords from your searches and every website you visit. It goes as far as analyzing your computer’s configuration according to them for “statistics” purposes only, or so they claim on Holnia’s official website. The truth is that they will save all this data into databases they can sell afterwards.

To avoid dealing with this kind of issue in the future, be aware of what you’re doing when you’re installing something new in your system; also make sure you know what hides behind the “recommended” mode on any install process; and remember to customize those installers so you can reject anything you don’t want before clicking on “Next”.

Finally, try to restrict your downloads to official websites and avoid download platforms like Softonic and 01net.

How to remove Holnia ?

Remove Holnia with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a tool that looks for and removes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your system. If you use AdwCleaner you can quickly get rid of many of these types of applications for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing websites.

• Download AdwCleaner (Official link and direct-download) :
  Download AdwCleaner
• Select AdwCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
• Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
• If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
• Reboot your computer.

Remove Holnia with ZHPCleaner

ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

• If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
• You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
  Download ZHPCleaner
• Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• Accept the user agreement.
• Click on the Scanner button.
• After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
• Reboot your computer.

Remove Holnia with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.

• Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Holnia.
• When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
• When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.

Reset your browser (if necessary)

If you still see traces of Holnia after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer