Welcome to our Pass and Play Ads removal instructions. This article intends to help you remove Pass and Play Ads from your system and is designed to work for Chrome, Firefox and all Windows versions.

Pass and Play Ads is a computer program, suspiciously resembling the behavior of the malicious applications known as Adware. If you are interested in this then you have probably encountered Pass and Play Ads on your computer. In this article we aim to provide valuable information about it and Adware viruses in general as well as comprehensive instructions and guidance on how to remove Pass and Play Ads completely from your system.

What to expect

Adware programs are particular in their insistence on popping up a variety of uncalled for advertisements. They may come in many forms – windows, banners, highlighted text or numbers turned into hyperlinks and others.

You can also expect a steady dose of browser redirects. In other words – when you try to open a website but instead you get redirected to a different one. Probably unknown to you and very likely malicious in its nature. It is thus not hard to imagine our advice in this situation – close the window or tab in which the unfamiliar websites did open up as quickly as possible. The more you stay on it the more likely it is that you will be attacked by other forms of malware.

The same applies for the fake advertisements. You should be disciplined enough to avoid any interaction with them. Apart from closing them down. Even that you should do with maximum cautious though, you do not want to click on the ads. This would represent a definite danger to your security as more malicious applications will try to weasel their way in.

How did you end up with Pass and Play Ads on your computer?

While there are different approaches used, notable mentions here are the email attachments and infected files downloaded from p2p networks, we would like to emphasize on another method. Actually this is probably the most likely way in which you might have ended up with this virus. This method is called software bundling and you can easily prevent it if you are vigilant enough.

Here’s what it is – imagine that you are simply dying to install a new piece of software, let’s say something free and completely legit and legal. So you download this freeware and happily install it. The application as everything you imagined it would be but you begin to notice the typical Adware traits. And these traits are pop-up Advertisements, banners, toolbars, Browser redirects and so on. So what is the common thing between these two you might ask? Well it is very possible that Pass and Play Ads was “tucked in” inside the installer of the free program. That does not make your new favorite program malicious at all, this is just a way for its creators to make some money. Many times you are going to end up with some kind of PUP, but sometimes you might be unlucky enough to encounter a full blown malware application. This can all be avoided if you are careful and thoroughly review the Advanced install options before actually click on “Next”.

Now, before plunging into the actual removal head first, please take an additional minute to read this carefully. We would like to explain some parts of the guide that might make you question whether you should continue or not.

Creators of Malware applications similar to Pass and Play Ads are known to create different alterations of their software so that they can ensure a prolonged life cycles for their apps. These people are often monitoring blogs similar to ours and come up with ways to counter act to our efforts to help affected users. For this reason we have prepared a somewhat long but extensive guide with instructions how to remove Pass and Play Ads. In case you find some parts of it to bear no semblance to your particular issues with the virus – just skip them and continue on with the rest.

If you need further assistance, have some questions or simply would like to say a thank you (which we would rather appreciate), please do not be shy and leave us a comment!

Pass and Play Ads Removal

Step 1

Reveal Hidden Files. If you don’t know how to do this, ask us in the comments.

Step 2

Press => Control Panel => Uninstall a program.

Locate the virus and any other suspicious looking programs and uninstall them.

Sort the programs by Installed On.

Delete recent suspicious entries.

In the search field type => msconfig => hit Enter.

Go to Startup and disable all entries with Unknown as Manufacturer.

Step 3

=> Search=> Copy/Paste “notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts” => Enter.

If you notice other IPs different from the localhost IPs – you might be in danger!

Ask for additional help in the comments.

Step 4

Pass and Play Ads Removal from Chrome

Click => More Tools => Extensions.

Locate the virus and remove it.

Pass and Play Ads Removal from Firefox

Click => Add-ons=> Extensions.

Locate the virus and delete it.

Malware Removal from Internet Explorer

Press on => Manage Add-ons =>

Find the virus and remove it.

Step 5

Right click on the Taskbar => Start Task Manager.

Navigate to Processes.

Locate any suspicious processes associated with Pass and Play Ads. Right click on the process = > Open File Location => End Process = > Delete the directories with the suspicious files.

Step 6

=> Search => Type:

• %AppData%
• %LocalAppData%
• %ProgramData%
• %WinDir%
• %Temp%

Hit Enter after each new search. Check each Folder and delete recent entries.

If you run into any trouble – ask us for help in the comments section!