An Annoying App Question

[falcon409]

Has anyone successfully removed "Ad.Doubleclick"? I have tried on many occasions however the problem I have is that it doesn't show up as an app anywhere. I use Firefox and it doesn't show up as an app in that program and I've looked at Control Panel and nothing there either but it's sure there somewhere cause every time I click on a search link. . . .there it is.

[dhazelgrove]

If you search for this on the web, you'll find many articles on removal.

Dave

[falcon409]

If you search for this on the web, you'll find many articles on removal.
Dave

Thanks Dave, I have but the problem with my situation is that they all require that you locate the app first and then remove it (in my case it doesn't appear anywhere, registry, google apps, PC file search, etc.). The other method I've come across is to download a specific program that targets that app, but every one I've started to download was immediately targeted as malware/virus, which is not what I need to get on top of what I'm trying to remove.

[dhazelgrove]

Have you tried Adwcleaner (here)?

Dave

[Jafo]

Find...dl and run 'Hijackthis'. It 'should' find it. https://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/

As with anything 'invasive'...read up on the proggy before doing anything drastic...

[huub vink]

Ed,

Sometimes things which don't want to be found can't be found. Windows excludes some directories from any search function. And what is hidden in there is very hard to find.

Somebody here at the SOH pointed me to a free tool called "everything" which, as the name already shows can find everything, no matter how well hidden it is.

Perhaps this can help you as it did help me to find unwanted copies of aircraft configuration files in a folder called virtual store.....

Success,
Huub

[Priller]

I guess you use Chrome, right? Or Google is your default search engine? This is copy-paste from a Chrome community site:

ad.doubleclick.net is not malware. It’s an advertising link retuned by Google to redirect your browser to the desired site. DoubleClick is Google’s advertising company. They use this referral scheme in order to track your browsing habits (to learn what words you searched for that led you to click on their ad), and for Google to collect a referral bonus for displaying such a good advertisement that you clicked on it. You are just seeing an error because your browser can’t get to their servers.

The error you’re seeing is because you have ad.doubleclick.net blocked in your computer somehow. You may be browsing using a “proxy” that is blocking that address; your router or firewall may be blocking the doubleclick.net domain; you may have blocked doubleclick in your hosts file; you may have installed a DNS ad blocker like pi-hole; or maybe you have installed any number of tools that might block these requests.


They might not call it malware, but IMHO it is. Wanna get rid of it? Delete/uninstall Chrome. I have two browsers of choice: FireFox and Edge Chromium. If you like the look and feel of Chrome, go for Edge Chromium.

Cheers,

Priller