Tutorial to Remove Internet Quick Access Thoroughly

Do you often receive annoying ads from Internet Quick Access when you are online and take a long time to wait for your browser to respond? Have you received many unwanted commercial ads, coupons and sponsored links? Take it easy. This article will show you how to get rid of Internet Quick Access so that you can block the annoying ads from appearing on the web pages you are visiting.

Internet Quick Access is an adware program that belongs to PUP infection. Though it claims that it is a tool which can help users to improve the browsing performance, the adware is not welcomed at all for this application brings a plenty of annoying ads. It can appear on your web browser including IE, Firefox and Chrome as an add-on. The consequence of it installed is popping up tons of ads, including interstitial, banner, videos, sponsored links, coupons and in-text ads and feasible audio ads. It is a cunning adware that can collect your search queries and items to affect your search results. It means that having this adware on your computer may lead to identify theft. In addition, you may download and install some rogue programs on your computer by accident if you click on those ads.

How Does the Adware Get Into Your Computer?

Download and installation of insecure process: This adware always comes along with free downloads from unsafe sites. If you think all the online free applications are safe for use, you are likely to get the adware from the Internet.

Accessing malicious websites or the legitimate websites that have been compromised: Unsafe websites are those that contain many ads or pornographic content, and they are not safe for you to browse. The hackers can embed malicious code on the websites so if someone enters the infected pages and he or she will be infected too.

Clicking on precarious attachment or links in the emails: links embedded in spam emails contain Adware or PUP. The adware is able start its infection once PC users click on the links or attachment accidentally.

Keeping outdated antivirus: If don’t have your antivirus updated to the latest version, Adware or PUP can easily make inroads on your computer. Otherwise, many potential threats can easily slip into your computer and attack your system.

How to Remove the Adware from Your Computer?

Once Internet Quick Access installed, you probably suffer from a mass of nasty pop-ups flowing on your computer, which tends to destroy your good mood of browsing. Beyond that, the adware may collect and record your browsing histories and send your personally non-identifiable information to third parties for unknown purposes. Thus, you would better to take actions to remove Internet Quick Access from the affected system. Tips below will teach you to deal with it easily and efficiently.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together to bring up Windows Task Manager and stop Internet Quick Access related processes there.

Step 2: Remove the adware related programs.

Windows Vista/7:
Click the Start Orb and click Control Panel.
Make sure you are in the category view in control panel (indicated in the top right hand corner).
Click Uninstall a Program under the Programs heading.
Search for the adware related programs, click Uninstall from the options at the top of the list.

Windows XP:
Click the Start menu and click Control Panel.
Click Switch to Category View, if you are not already in this view.
Click Add or Remove Programs.
Select the adware related programs , and click Change /Remove or Remove.

Windows 8:
Press Windows key + R.
Type “control panel” in the box shown and hit Enter.
Go to Uninstall a Program.
Look for the adware related programs , and click Uninstall.

Step 3: In the C drive, find out and delete all adware associated files.

Step 4: Press Windows+ R keys and type "regedit" into the Run box. When the registry editor is opened, search for and delete the adware associated entries completely.

Step 5. Remove all add-ons and extensions.

Internet Explorer
1. Click Tools > Manage add-ons.
2. Under “Toolbars and Extensions”, search for Internet Quick Access adware related add-ons. Highlight them, and disable them.

Google Chrome
1. Click the 3 bar options icon or wrench icon and navigate to Tools >Extensions.
2. Search for the adware related extensions and remove them all.

Mozilla Firefox
1. Click Tools > Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+A).
2. Under “Plugins”, search for the adware related add-ons. Disable or remove them. You may also search for other unwanted add-ons under “Extensions”.


Please be advised that this tricky adware is able to update its version and change its file code in a short time, so manual removal may not make sure a complete and safe removal of this adware. If you want to easily and thoroughly eliminate this pesky adware, it is strongly suggested that you download SpyHunter or Malwarebytes to automatically detect and delete all its traces from your system.