Back to back is an adware that is distributed among setup programs for free software found in certain download platforms. This technique allows cyber-criminals to achieve massive amounts of installations to users that would have never installed their tools otherwise.
Back to back was developed with two goals in mind: to distribute publicity and to collect personal data about every infected user.
Ads shown by Back to back can take the form of a pop-up, a banner, a fake result in Google or blue/green underlined words turned into links among the text of every visited website. Most of the time such ads are tagged as Back to back Ads or Powered by Back to back, this tag is what lets us find out we’ve been infected.
Back to back is usually installed at the same time as some free tool found in certain download websites, such as soft32.com, softonic.com, download.com, etc… These pages offer their free software in packed setup programs that include other tools supposedly “free of malware”. It’s because of this that nowadays installing a freeware normally means installing a malware also. You can stop this from happening by being very aware of every step of the install process and rejecting any optional tools offered.
The previous image is a preview of Back to back’s official website that serves for nothing more than to make public their conditions of use; conditions you accept by installing the software.
You should know that Back to back is considered as suspicious by 20 security software.
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How to remove Back to back ?
Remove Back to back with AdwCleaner
The AdwCleaner tool will examine your pc and internet browser for Back to back, browser plugins and registry keys, that may have been installed on your system without your permission.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download AdwCleaner - Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the file AdwCleaner.exe.
- If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
- When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the Scan button.
- To remove malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the Clean button.
- Please click on the OK button to allow AdwCleaner reboot your computer.
Remove Back to back with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and removes malware like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, and more. All you have to do is launch Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free and run a scan. If you want even better protection, consider Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium and its instant real-time scanner that automatically prevents malware and websites from infecting your PC.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
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.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
- Once the program has loaded, select Scan now.
- When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
- 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.
Remove Back to back with HitmanPro
HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner designed to rescue computers that have become infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits and other malware, despite continuous protection from up-to-date antivirus software.
- You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
Download HitmanPro - Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
- Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
- HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for Back to back malicious files.
- When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove Back to back virus.
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