What is Olpair.com?
Olpair.com is advertising domain that will try to make users click “Allow” button and enable Olpair.com notifications, so that it can later spam you with them. The notifications, in turn, will ask you to download some dubious programs or visit insecure sites. Olpair.com might open on your browsers periodically if your computer is infected with adware. Adware often comes along with freeware or pirated programs that you download from the Web. You may follow this guide to get rid of adware and remove Olpair.com from your Chrome, Firefox and IE/Edge browsers.
How to remove Olpair.com?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Olpair.com completely. For this, you need to remove the application from the Control Panel and then check the drives for such leftovers as Olpair.com files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to the automatic removal tool.
Performing an antimalware scan with Norton would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Olpair.com. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Olpair.com, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Olpair.com manual removal
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Olpair.com you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove Olpair.com from Windows XP
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Add or Remove Programs
- Find the application related to Olpair.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Olpair.com from Windows 7/Vista
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Uninstall Program
- Find the application related to Olpair.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Olpair.com from Windows 8/8.1
- Right-click the menu icon in left bottom corner
- Choose Control Panel
- Select the Uninstall Program line
- Uninstall the application related to Olpair.com
How to remove Olpair.com from Windows 10
- Press Win+X to open Windows Power menu
- Click Control Panel
- Choose Uninstall a Program
- Select the application related to Olpair.com and remove it
If you experience problems with removing Olpair.com from Control Panel: there is no such title on the list, or you receive an error preventing you from deleting the application, see the article dedicated to this issue.
Read what to do if program won’t uninstall from Control Panel
Remove Olpair.com from browsers
How to unlock Windows Group Policies
Before you will started to remove Olpair.com from browser you should perform following instructions in Command Prompt
This step is necessary to delete Windows Group Policies created by Olpair.com
- Start Command Prompt as Administrator
- To do this in Windows 10/8 or Windows 7 click Start and in the search box type cmd. Right-click on the found result and choose Run as Administrator.
- While in command prompt type:
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" - Press Enter button.
- Then type:
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" - Press Enter button.
- Finally, type:
gpupdate /force - Press Enter button.
Since some of hijacker threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Olpair.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on More tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Olpair.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Olpair.com from Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools/Gear icon, then select Manage Add-ons
- Delete Olpair.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Olpair.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Olpair.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Olpair.com from Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Extensions
- Click the gear icon near Olpair.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
- Choose Remove
Reset your browsers
How to reset settings in Google Chrome
- Click on the icon in the right-upper corner
- Choose Settings
- Click Advanced settings
- Click the Reset button
- In “reset” window click the Reset button
How to reset settings in Mozilla Firefox
- Click the icon in the upper right corner
- Choose Help
- Select Troubleshooting Information
- Click the Refresh Firefox… button
How to reset settings in Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools button
- Go to Internet options
- Go to the Advanced tab
- Click Reset
How to reset settings in Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Settings
- Under the Clear browsing data category select Choose what to clear
- Select everything and click Clear
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting Olpair.com.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Olpair.com removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover Olpair.com.
