Word Wizard is the name of a potentially unwanted program, which only means that this program is not considered as dangerous by many antivirus software because it’s not a real virus. It is considered “potentially unwanted” because it’s usually installed very quietly into our systems. Word Wizard infiltrates our computers when we download freeware from the net. By going too fast while installing a new software we might not notice what’s being offered as “optional” and we end up installing Word Wizard having no clue of what we did. This is why the best weapon we have to protect ourselves from these issues is to be aware and careful of what we do with software coming from the internet.
Once it has been installed, Word Wizard will immediately start doing what it was conceived for: broadcasting non-stopping ads in every website we visit and spy on our every move online.
These ads can be seen as unexpected pop-ups, banners, or green/blue underlined words within the text of every website you visit.
Another characteristic of Word Wizard‘s ads is that they are usually tagged as Powered by Word Wizard, Word Wizard Ads or some other label like these. It’s through these labels that most people realize they have been infected with an adware.
As told before, if you have been infected with Word Wizard, everything you do online is constantly followed and registered. This adware saves different information about you like your OS version, information about your browser, websites you visit, searches you make, your geographical setting, IP address, among other data that can help identify you.
Even though Word Wizard has its own official website, it’s impossible to download the program there. Without doubt this website was only conceived to give an appearance of a legitimate software, plus they needed a place to publish their conditions of use where their malicious tasks are explained.
Do take into consideration that you have given your full approval to all those conditions by installing the software, it doesn’t matter if you did it on purpose or not.
You should know that Word Wizard is detected as a parasite by 15 anti-viruses.
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How to remove Word Wizard ?
Remove Word Wizard 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 Word Wizard with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a tool that searches for and removes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using AdwCleaner you can very easily delete many of these types of programs for a much better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.
- Download AdwCleaner (Official link and direct-download) :
Download AdwCleaner - Select AdwCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
- If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
- Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
- If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
- Reboot your computer.
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