Sharp Angle is an adware wildly spread thanks to free software whose setup program includes this unwanted program. This technique allows them to reach a large number of computers whose users would never install it on their own accord.
Broadcast ads and spy on us are the main reasons of existence of Sharp Angle, and trust us it was specially designed to achieve such a mission. Those ads can be seen as banners, pop-ups, fake Google results or highlighted links in blue or green among the text of the visited websites. It’s quite easy to identify Sharp Angle‘s ads because they are usually tagged as: Ad by Sharp Angle, Sharp Angle Ads, Powered by Sharp Angle, or something else along those lines.
Sharp Angle also acts like a spy, analyzing and saving everything we do online. Visited websites, web searches… everything is considered to present better and customized ads while it’s also saved in databases whose anonymity we can’t be sure of and that can be sold afterwards.
You should note that by installing this software you have given your absolute permission for all this actions to be done, it doesn’t matter if you did it on purpose or not… which is why many antivirus can’t really consider Sharp Angle as a malicious software.
You should know that Sharp Angle is considered as a parasite by 19 anti-viruses.
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How to remove Sharp Angle ?
Remove Sharp Angle with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool designed to remove undesired toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no installation 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 Sharp Angle 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 Sharp Angle with HitmanPro
HitmanPro is an anti-virus program that describes itself as a second opinion scanner that should be used in conjunction with another anti-virus program that you may already have installed.
- 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 Sharp Angle 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 Sharp Angle virus.
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