Ciuvo ads. How to remove? (Uninstall guide)
What is Ciuvo?
Since nowadays online shopping gets increasingly popular, various tools are offered to people in order to help them save their time and money. Beware that a lot of legitimate programs offering such and similar services have already been attributed to an adware and potentially unwanted program categories. Ciuvo is one of those programs. It is promoted as a convenient shopping tool, which displays the latest offers, deals, price comparisons in a form of pop-ups and banners. However, you may really be surprised after seeing the amount of its ads, banners, in-text links and similar notifications. Consequently, such a flood of useless ads may reduce your browser's speed and performance. Ciuvo virus is compatible with all types of browsers, including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, thus once installed this application starts generating annoying ads whenever it wants. Moreover, this program may change your home page and search engine, and prevent you from changing it back. Beware that although it cannot pose harm to your computer itself, it may show fake search results and redirect you to sponsored websites. This activity is mostly used for making the money from affiliate marketing. Moreover, ads displayed by Ciuvo may be misleading and drive you to suspicious websites, what may end up with virus or malware infection. If you noticed annoying pop-up ads, you should also think about your privacy. We say so because this tricky add-on is able to accumulate people's personally identifiable data, such is IP addresses, browsing history, search queries, websites you visit, bookmarks and so on. In fact, there are numerous similar adwares like Ciuvo, including Rcoupon, SpeedSave and many other. Therefore, you should be careful and avoid these programs.
How can Ciuvo hijack my computer?
Adware type programs are designed in such way that they can easily be distributed without users' permission asked. Ciuvo virus is one of such programs that may affect the browser right after the careless installation of a freeware. Such distribution method is called 'bundling'. Its principle is very simple – free software carries various additional applications, such as browser extensions, plug-ins, add-ons and so on, which are usually hidden. If you don't monitor its installation and carelessly press the 'next' button all the time, you may not notice an offer to install additional applications. As a result, careless installation of the freeware may end up with the installation of adware and potentially unwanted programs. If you do not want to be distracted by Ciuvo ads and start suffering from Ciuvo redirects, you should follow our tips on how to avoid installation of an adware. First of all, you should double check every freeware you are trying to download. For that you should look at End User License Agreement and similar information. If you decided that your desired program is safe enough, you should choose Advanced or Custom installation option that will help you get more ability to monitor every step of the installation of the freeware and reject offers to install additional applications. If Ciuvo virus is already showing signs of its presence on your computer, do not ignore them and eliminate this hijacker.
How to remove Ciuvo from my computer?
If you have decided to remove Ciuvo virus, you should note that this process may not be as easy as you may have thought. If you are not an advanced PC, user, you should choose Automatic removal guide.
You can remove virus damage automatically with a help of one of these programs: Reimage, Malwarebytes MalwarebytesCombo Cleaner, Plumbytes Anti-MalwareMalwarebytes Malwarebytes. We recommend these applications because they detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.

To remove Ciuvo ads, follow these steps:
Erase Ciuvo from Windows systems
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Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
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If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
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Uninstall Ciuvo and related programs
Here, look for Ciuvo or any other recently installed suspicious programs. -
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Remove Ciuvo from Mac OS X system
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If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
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Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Ciuvo or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Eliminate Ciuvo from Internet Explorer (IE)
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Remove dangerous add-ons
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons. -
You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for Ciuvo and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
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Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab. -
Here, remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Click Apply to save changes.
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Reset Internet Explorer
Click on the gear icon (menu) again and select Internet options. Go to Advanced tab. - Here, select Reset.
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When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete Ciuvo removal.
Delete Ciuvo ads from Microsoft Edge
Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
- Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
- Click Settings to open more options.
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Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
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Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
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Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
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Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can’t see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
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When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
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Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
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Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
Once these steps are finished, Ciuvo should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
WindowsMac OS XInternet ExplorerMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxGoogle ChromeSafariGet rid of Ciuvo from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions. -
Here, select Ciuvo and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
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Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information. -
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Ciuvo removal.
Uninstall Ciuvo from Google Chrome
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Delete malicious plugins
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions. -
Here, select Ciuvo and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
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Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
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When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
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Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings. -
Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
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Click Reset to confirm this action and complete Ciuvo removal.
Erase Ciuvo from Safari
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences. -
Here, select Extensions and look for Ciuvo or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
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Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari.... -
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Ciuvo removal process.