AdFender

A guide to uninstall AdFender from your computer

AdFender is a Windows program. Read more about how to remove it from your computer. The Windows release was developed by AdFender Inc.. More data about AdFender Inc. can be found here. You can get more details about AdFender at http://www.adfender.com. AdFender is typically installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender folder, however this location can differ a lot depending on the user's option while installing the program. You can uninstall AdFender by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\uninst.exe. Note that you might be prompted for administrator rights. The program's main executable file has a size of 3.42 MB (3590968 bytes) on disk and is labeled AdFender.exe.

AdFender contains of the executables below. They occupy 6.93 MB (7271738 bytes) on disk.

• AdFender.exe (3.42 MB)
• AFCert.exe (214.89 KB)
• AFHook.exe (86.85 KB)
• ConfigureLoopback.exe (74.91 KB)
• uninst.exe (89.58 KB)
• certutil.exe (230.27 KB)
• tor.exe (2.83 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 2.30 of AdFender. You can find here a few links to other AdFender versions:

• 2.60
• 2.55
• 2.51
• 2.31
• 2.75
• 2.50
• 2.52

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If you are manually uninstalling AdFender we advise you to verify if the following data is left behind on your PC.

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall AdFender:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender

The files below remain on your disk by AdFender when you uninstall it:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AdFender.chm
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AdFender.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AdProxy.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AdUtils.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AFCert.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AFHook.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AFHook32.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\AFHook64.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Config\adfender.xml
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Config\myrules.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Config\tlds.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Config\torrc
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Config\xhttps.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\ConfigureLoopback.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_annoy.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_cn.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_cz.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_de.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_en.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_il.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_it.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_nl.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_prv.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_ru.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Filters\filters_spam404.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\License\license.rtf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\License\Third-party\misc-license.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\License\Third-party\MPL.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\License\Third-party\openssl-license.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\License\Third-party\tor-license.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\certutil.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\freebl3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\gtest132.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\nspr4.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\nss3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\nssckbi.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\nssdbm3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\nssutil3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\plc4.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\plds4.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\smime3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\softokn3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\sqlite3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\NSS\ssl3.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Readme.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\SConfig.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\SQLWrapper.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\libeay32.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\libevent_core-2-0-5.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\libevent_extra-2-0-5.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\libevent-2-0-5.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\libssp-0.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\ssleay32.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\tor.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\Tor\zlib1.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\uninst.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Config\adcommon.xml
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Config\adfender.xml
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Config\myrules.txt
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Config\sitecounter.xml
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Log\adfender.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Log\afcert.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Log\blocked.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Log\proxy.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Log\request.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\AdFender\Log\siteinfo.log

Registry keys:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AdFender
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AdFender
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Tracing\AdFender_RASAPI32
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Tracing\AdFender_RASMANCS
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\AdFender

How to uninstall AdFender using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

AdFender is an application by AdFender Inc.. Frequently, computer users choose to erase this program. Sometimes this can be troublesome because deleting this manually requires some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best QUICK solution to erase AdFender is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your Windows PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around tool to clean your Windows computer.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the programs installed on the computer will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate AdFender or simply click the Search feature and type in "AdFender". The AdFender program will be found automatically. Notice that after you select AdFender in the list of apps, the following data about the program is shown to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about AdFender, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the application you wish to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for AdFender:

• The publisher is: http://www.adfender.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\AdFender\uninst.exe

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. accept the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove AdFender.


8. After removing AdFender, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to start the cleanup. All the items of AdFender that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing AdFender with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove AdFender by AdFender Inc. from your PC, nor are we saying that AdFender by AdFender Inc. is not a good software application. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove AdFender supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.