Erasing Track.nuxues.com Ads (Adware/PUP)

What is Track.nuxues.com Ads? And how does it work?

Track.nuxues.com is a questionable website that assaults browsers with tons of advertisements. This is why it is referred to as Track.nuxues.com Ads. It mostly affects German users although it could affect other browsers from other parts of the globe as well. Track.nuxues.com Ads is categorized as an ad-supported program or adware, as well as a potentially unwanted program.
Track.nuxues.com Ads is used by other shady websites to monetize via pay-per-click marketing. This is done by injecting the browse with tons of pop-ups, in-text links, banners, flashing windows, and other intrusive and annoying sponsored contents. Each time you click on these sponsored contents, developers of Track.nuxues.com Ads earn their revenue and at the same time, the traffic of unknown retailers and companies increases and guarantees boost in the sales of their products and services. However, not all the sponsored content displayed by this adware are safe as some of them could redirect users to suspicious sites that might try to obtain users’ personal and sensitive data or worse, it might inject malicious program into the system. For instance, you might get redirected to a suspicious site displaying some alarming alert telling you that your computer is infected with some virus and that you have to call the tech support number given to get rid of it. The alert might even look realistic as crooks tend to use some error codes and other technical jargon to trick users into believing the scam. So that’s one of the things you can encounter if you don’t delete Track.nuxues.com Ads from your computer.
How does Track.nuxues.com Ads travel the web?
Ad-supported programs like the Track.nuxues.com Ads, travel the web using deceptive advertisements as well as adware programs. These adware programs are often found on free sharing sites being distributed as software bundles and in case you don’t know, this kind of software package contains not just one but two or more programs in it which means that when you install it, you could end up installing all the programs in the package. To prevent that from happening, you have to use the Custom or Advanced setup and not the standard one.
Erase Track.nuxues.com Ads from your computer as well as the adware that triggers it by following the given removal guide below.
Step 1: Close all the browsers affected with Track.nuxues.com Ads. If you’re having a hard time closing them, you can close them using the Task Manager just tap on Ctrl + Shift + Esc.
Step 2: Next, go to Processes and look for the process of the browser you’re unable to close as well as other dubious processes that could be related to Track.nuxues.com Ads and then right click on each one of them and select End Process or End Task to kill their processes.
Step 3: Then open the Programs and Features section in Control Panel. To do so, tap the Windows key + R, then type in appwiz.cpl and then click OK or press Enter.
Step 4: From the list of programs installed, look for any suspicious program that could be related to Track.nuxues.com Ads and then Uninstall them.

Step 5: Edit your Hosts File

Tap the Win + R keys to open then type in %WinDir% and then click OK.
Go to System32/drivers/etc.
Open the hosts file using Notepad.
Delete all the entries containing Track.nuxues.com Ads.
After that, save the changes you’ve made and close the file.

Step 6: Reset all your browsers to default to their default state.
Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox and click the icon that looks like a three stacked lines located at the top-right section of the browser.
Next, select the question mark icon from the drop-down menu.
Then select “Troubleshooting information” from the slide-out menu.
After that, click on the “Reset Firefox” button located at the top-right section of the newly opened web page.
Now select “Reset Firefox” in the confirmation pop-up window that appears.

Google Chrome

Open Google Chrome, then tap the Alt + F keys.
After that, click on Settings.
Next, scroll down until you see the Advanced option, once you see it, click on it.
After clicking the Advanced option, go to the “Restore and clean up option and click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” option to reset Google Chrome.
Now restart Google Chrome.

Internet Explorer

Launch Internet Explorer.
Next, click the wrench icon for Settings.
Then click Internet Options.
After that, go to the Advanced tab.
From there, click the Reset button. This will reset Internet Explorer’s settings to their default condition.
Now click OK to save the changes made.

Step 7: Hold down Windows + E keys simultaneously to open File Explorer.
Step 8: Navigate to the following directories and look for suspicious files associated to Track.nuxues.com Ads as well as the adware program that’s behind it and delete it/them.

%USERPROFILE%\Downloads
%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
%TEMP%

Step 9: Close the File Explorer.
Step 10: Empty the Recycle Bin and afterwards, you have to flush the DNS cache. To do that, just, right click on the Start button and click on Command Prompt (administrator). From there, type the “ipconfig /flushdns” command and hit Enter to flush the DNS.
Follow the advanced instructions below to ensure the removal of Track.nuxues.com Ads using [product-name] as well as all the file residues it left behind.
Perform a full system scan using [product-code]. To do so, follow these steps:

Turn on your computer. If it’s already on, you have to reboot it.
After that, the BIOS screen will be displayed, but if Windows pops up instead, reboot your computer and try again. Once you’re on the BIOS screen, repeat pressing F8, by doing so the Advanced Option shows up.

To navigate the Advanced Option use the arrow keys and select Safe Mode with Networking then hit
Windows will now load the Safe Mode with Networking.
Press and hold both R key and Windows key.

If done correctly, the Windows Run Box will show up.
Type in the URL address, [product-url] in the Run dialog box and then tap Enter or click OK.
After that, it will download the program. Wait for the download to finish and then open the launcher to install the program.
Once the installation process is completed, run [product-code] to perform a full system scan.