StormVade is an unwanted adware, a program with no other goal than showing unexpected ads in every computer where it is installed. With the help of free software to which it is attached: by not customizing the install of such software we find ourselves with StormVade installed in our systems among some other useless tools.
StormVade is usually linked to popular free software to attain the biggest number of infections possible. In the previous screenshot we can see it attached to MineCraft. By clicking a little too fast on “Accept and Install” StormVade infects your computer.
We use the term infection with all its weight because once installed it will use every possible means to show you ads. Banners, Pop-ups, underlined words in blue or green within the text of every visited website, new tabs opening up without notice to show you surveys, etc…
It will replace Google’s normal ads with its own ads along with a sort of toolbar with links towards YouTube, Twitter, Ebay, and Flickr:
As you can see there’s nothing good coming from StormVade, specially not what they promise in their website… A better browsing experience: