How to uninstall "Ads by Highlightly"?

What is Highlightly?

Highlightly is a advertising application which purpose is to display diffirent kinds of advertisements around web pages. 
Highlightly also installs browser extension:

Highlightly extension

Highlightly belongs to Vitruvian family of malware and can be named by different malware scanners also as:

• Adware.Vitruvian (Gridinsoft Trojan Killer) 
• InfoAtoms (fs)
• Adware.Plugin
• Win32/Adware.Vitruvian
• PUP.Optional.Highlightly
• Adware.AdPage

How to figure out that your computer is infected with Highlightly?

Here are some symptoms that indicate that your computer is infected with Highlightly:

• you see any kind of "deals" along with your search results;
• "Highlightly" extension was installed to your browser without your permission;
• at least one of the following folders is present on your computer: 
• C:\Program Files\Highlightly
• at least one of the following registry items is present on your computer:
• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Highlightly
• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Highlightly
• HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\hlsvc
• HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\hlnfd
• at least one of the following files is running on your computer:
  • hlsvc.exe
  • hlnfd.sys
  • highlightlyclientie.dll
  • highlightly-setup-1.9.0.3.exe
• at least one of the following services is present on your computer:
  • hlnfd
  • Highlightly Client Service
• at least one file with the following MD5 hashes is present on your computer:
  • B9CA10E2BC1EDE0AB81721099DACDC19
  • B59634CF7F26949E96C2C7D14C793CC8
  • D301EC2B1296C0DB50CAAF17A2D00BEA
  • D01D98C9A1EE07DABD3F94D27830CE5A
  • A96AED999B376CDB754DC24CD7A1890C

How to get rid of Highlightly?

Follow this guide to remove Highlightly from your computer completely.

Step 1.  Try to remove Highlightly using tools of Windows operating system.

If you have installed Windows 8, press Start button on the screen or Windows button on your keyboard, start typing "programs and features" and choose "Programs and Features" in the appeared menu:

Programs and Features

If you are using Windows 7, press Start button and choose "Control panel": 

Windows 7 start menu

Look for Highlightly in the list of installed programs, select it and press Uninstall button:

Highlightly uninstall

Now reboot your computer and check the result. If the advertising is still present, please move to the next step.

Step 2. Remove Highlightly completely using Gridinsoft Trojan Killer tool

Gridinsoft Trojan Killer is a powerful all-in-one tool aimed to kill diffirent kinds of malware. It has no analogues on the quality of malware and browser hijackers removal. Gridinsoft Trojan Killer also has professional support team that can resolve your problem remotely even though Trojan Killer didn't find any threat on your PC.

Please, follow the guide below to remove Highlightly malware from your computer.

• Download Gridinsoft Trojan Killer malware removal solution setup from the download link: Trojan Killer download link

• Close all your programs and browsers
• Install Gridinsoft Trojan Killer and run it by double-clicking on the icon on your desktop 

  

  Trojan Killer icon on the desktop

• Run Standart scan using Scan tab of your Trojan Killer

  

  Scan tab of Trojan Killer

• After the scanning completed mark all items as Move to quarantine and press Apply button to remove all dangerous items from your computer. Reboot your PC if Trojan Killer asks about it:

  

  Example of scan results

• Now you have to clean all your browsers. Go to Tools tab and press Reset browser settings button:

  

  Tools tab of Trojan Killer

• Mark all your browsers as shown below and press Reset button:

  

  Resetting browser settings

• Reboot your PC and check the result

Now your computer should be cleaned of Highlightly virus. If you still notice any signs of Highlightly, please send your request to the Trojan Killer Support. Specialists from Gridinsoft will help you to remove any kind of threats.

Please, notice that Trojan Killer Support service is able for registred users only.