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How to quickly remove www.Buify.com Pop-up Advertisements

If you are taken to the website www.buify.com and ask to download and install software to view a document or watch a video, please do not. The website www.Buify.com contains web browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted programs that will display annoying pop-ups in your web browser.

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Advertisements on the website www.buify.com asking to download some unwanted programs

Advertisements on the www.buify.com website asking to download some programs

If you click on the advertisements in the images above, you will be asked to download an installation file. This file contains web browser hijackers and other potentially unwanted programs that will hijack your web browser and maybe your computer.

Antivirus software maker Dr.Web classifies this website as malicious. We used the www.virustotal.com to determine this.

How to remove www.Buify.com Pop-up Advertisements

If you have already installed this software, please use the programs below to remove the www.Buify.com Pop-up Advertisements and the unwanted programs installed by this software:

AdwCleaner: Click here for instructions to download and use this program.
Avast Browser Cleanup: Click here for instructions to download and use this program.

After downloading these programs, ensure that you close all web browsers. Run the " AdwCleaner " program first, and then the "Avast Browser Cleanup " program.

You will be asked to reboot your computer, please do so, in order to completely remove the unwanted programs from your computer.

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