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Remove ClickTheButton Adware
About ClickTheButton
ClickTheButton is described as a price comparison service. It monitors visits of known shopping sites and provides sponsored links to competitor sites. It runs as a process on startup (ctbclick.exe) and installs a number of extra DLLs. ClickTheButton downloads parts of advertising pages when you visit a new web site. When a complete advertisement has arrived, it will be displayed, usually as a pop-up or pop-under window.
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How to Remove ClickTheButton ?
Follow these steps to remove ClickTheButton manually:
- Open the Task Manager, and kill the 'ctbclick' process.
- Delete 'CTB3_Shared' from the Windows directory.
- Delete 'CTBHooks.dll' from the System directory (WINDOWS\SYSTEM or WINNT\System32).
- Click Start > Run, type 'regedit' and press Ok to open registry edito. Find and delete the value HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ClickTheButton.
- Remove the registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\CTB_BrandedClient, and every class in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT that begins with 'CtbClient', 'CtbSession', 'CtbShopper' or 'CtbXML'.
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