Adanak Adware Removal

Found a new adware called Adanak today. If you got the Adanak adware on your machine, you’ll notice it when starting Mozilla Firefox.

Adanak modify firefox

Here’s how Adanak appears in Firefox’s Add-ons dialog:

Adanak Firefox add-on

The anti-virus programs have a pretty decent detection rate for the Adanak adware. 20 of 53 anti-virus scanners detect Adanak according to VirusTotal:

Adanak virustotal report

Removal is easy with FreeFixer, just select the Adanak files for removal, and then click Fix and the problem will be solved:

adanakbho.dll

Adanak firefox addon in FreeFixer

How did you get Adanak on your machine?