How to Remove EmailDefend - Useful Removal Instructions

Do you often receive annoying ads from EmailDefend 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 EmailDefend so that you can block the annoying ads from appearing on the web pages you are visiting.

EmailDefend 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. . This program is permitted to be a parasitic attachment on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Once it gets into the PC, the adware various ads including in-text ads, video ads, banners, coupons, deals and other types of advertisements. Additionally, it attacks user’s browser activities through copying URL that users are visiting, information users are inserting, IP of the affected computer and other data that contain personal details. It is able to spy on your online activities and record your browser history to steal your credit card numbers, online banking information, IP address, email address, usernames, passwords, ID and other valuable information. Take immediate action to remove EmailDefend thoroughly from your computer to avoid further damage.

How Does EmailDefend Invade Your Computer?

Downloading and installing unsafe free programs: Such adware programs usually come bundled with other free applications that shared on the web. If you download and install such free applications without scanning for malware, you are likely to allow the adware or other malware to get into your machine.

Access to illegal sites: Some unofficial websites also have the chance to redirect you to the page of the malware. Cyber criminals implant Adware or PUP into those malicious sites and infect the targeted PC users on its sites.

Attacking PC users by using spam E-mail attachment: The adware may be embedded in spam emails sent by cybercriminals. If you happen to open the email attachments or click on the malicious links, you may download the adware onto your machine.

Keeping outdated antivirus: Adware can easily enter your computer, if you haven’t updated your antivirus program for a long time. Otherwise, some special malware, including burgeoning adware, have the capability of avoiding the scanning and killing of old malware removal tool.

Instructions to Remove EmailDefend From Your PC? 

It is obvious that EmailDefend is able to mess up your computer with tons of annoying ads that can make annoy you so much during your browsing. It will collect personal information stealthy for its malicious purpose. To protect your privacy, we highly recommend removing EmailDefend from your computer immediately. You can refer to the instructions below to remove the adware manually.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together to bring up Windows Task Manager and stop EmailDefend 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 EmailDefend 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 eliminate it for good, you'd better choose an automatic removal tool like SpyHunter to do a thorough scan for your computer and remove all threats completely.