Cleardexchange Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Cleardexchange pop-up alerts may appear out of the blue, covering the content of the page you visited or opening your browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Cleardexchange promotion can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Cleardexchange popups clearing in several manners, and also examining your PC for other viruses presence.

What are Cleardexchange pop-ups?

Cleardexchange popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a major amount of earnings for adware representatives. These promotions might have explicit content, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Cleardexchange push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, affordable and also extremely successful advertising tool¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is offered at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this possibility and get it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favorite thing amidst the marketing departments of big internet stores.

Nonetheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is a great basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And Cleardexchange.com ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Cleardexchange site

How have I got the Cleardexchange virus?

There are a lot of methods of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Cleardexchange popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people regularly work with the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of applications are dangerous, because it is extremely easy to integrate a Cleardexchange malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

How can I get rid of Cleardexchange pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Cleardexchange adware clearing contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then correct the effects of its activity. The elimination procedure is quite simple, due to the fact that it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its large resources utilization, as well as some problems that may be crucial for some types of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses are capable to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Cleardexchange malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your browser will definitely connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines³:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes the things much more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Cleardexchange pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, until you try to open settings once again.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.