Virus Removal Instruction: How to Deal with WordFly Ads on Your Chrome / IE / Firefox

What is WordFly

WordFly is a browser add-on which works on popular browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. About it function, WordFly claims to "show the Wikipedia and Bing results in an in-page window" when you highlight your concerned words on any page, which makes it sound like a helpful tool.
However, there are some other traits of this plugin that it will not tell you. Users who keep WordFly will see these symptoms:

It displays commercial ads in the form of banners and floating boxes. These ads are not safe, they will redirect you to some dubious sites, which may contain malicious codes.
It add a task in the Windows Task Manager and install third-party programs secretly. The unwanted freeware are potentially dangerous that they may lead to browsing hijacking.
It monitor your browsing habits. Your search terms, preferred sites and typed URLs will be collect for reference to deliver the targeted ads.
Since this plugin keeps working in the background, it will automatically download updated and related addition. Your browsers will be slowed down and work like snails.

WordFly is not a suitable add-on to be kept in the computer, you had better remove this adware to get better browsing experience. Read the below removal instruction to remove the add-on safely and completely. You can use a free scanner to see if there are other computer threats in your computer:

WordFly Removal Instruction

Step 1. Show hidden files to delete the junkfiles

1. Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;

2.Under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;

3.Click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files generated by this program

Samples:

%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

%AllUsersProfile%

%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random letters}\

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~dll

Step 2. Remove the associated plugins from your Chrome, Firefox and IE.

For Google Chrome:

Open Google Chrome >> Customize and control Google Chrome icon >> More tools >> click on Extensions >> Remove the related extensions

For Mozilla Firefox:

Open menu >> Add-ons >> Extensions and Plugins>>Remove the related extensions

For Internet Explorer:

Tools>> Manager Add-on >> Toolbars and Extensions >> Disable the related add-ons

Step 3. Remove related PUPs from Control Panel.

Click Start button, open Control Panel to choose Programs and Feature, then find the unwanted programs in the list, right click to uninstall them.

Step 4. Delete the modified registry entries to prevent its coming back.

This step is unnecessary if the adware does not come back after removal. Press Win and R buttons and type REGEDIT in the pop-up box. Remove related registry entries.

Note: The removal steps can be complicated to some inexperienced users. You can leave the problems to a professional remover to save your time.

Automatic removal : Use SpyHunter to remove all the potential risks

1. Safely download the removal tool by clicking the below icon.

2. Install this program just like common ones.

3. After the installation has been successfully completed, SpyHunter will start scanning your system automatically.

4. You should now click on the Remove button to remove all the listed malware.

Extra step: Optimize your PC with RegCure Pro

There will be many junk files like invalid registry entries still on your computer when you uninstall the adware. They occupy disk space of your computer and may degrade your computer performance over time. It is complicated to delete them manually, so you may need the help of a system cleaner or system optimizer. We recommend you optimize the infected system with RegCure Pro.

1.Click the icon to download RegCure Pro