Polished Patterns is the name of a malware that counts on people being distracted to be quietly installed into their computers. It has been developed by cyber-criminals whose only goal is to make money through the infected users. Polished Patterns can infect your PC through the download and install of free software whose installation has been modified by unworthy sites to include additional programs… mostly spyware.
Ads shown by Polished Patterns can appear in different ways, either as pop-ups, banners, green/blue underlined links among the text of every visited website. These ads are usually tagged as Ads by Polished Patterns or Powered by Polished Patterns.
Polished Patterns is installed (as most adware is) while another program is being installed, free software more than likely, we’re talking of fake video players found in streaming websites, fake plug-in updates or programs found in download platforms like softonic.com, download.com, sourceforge.com, soft32.com, platforms that add it to their install programs so they can make money too… every successful install means money to them.
Here’s what Polished Patterns’ official website looks like, of course this website is nothing but a cover and a place to show their conditions of use, conditions that are effective for every user that has this advertising software installed.
You should note that you have given your full approval to these conditions by installing the software… the fact that you probably did it without realizing it makes no difference whatsoever.
You should know that Polished Patterns is detected as suspicious by 31 anti-viruses.
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How to remove Polished Patterns ?
Remove Polished Patterns with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool developed to eliminate unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no set up and can be ran in a instantaneous to examine your pc.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Polished Patterns with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware dis 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 Polished Patterns.
- 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.
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