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What is Olive?

Olive claims to be a legitimate light-weight Internet browser that significantly improves the Internet browsing experience. Many users believe that this application legitimate, however, Olive is a potentially unwanted adware-type program (PUP) that infiltrates systems without users’ permission.

Following successful infiltration, this bogus app generates intrusive online advertisements and gathers Internet browsing-related information.

Olive generates various types of intrusive online advertisements including banner and pop-up ads. To achieve this, developers employ a 'virtual layer' (a tool allowing placement of third party graphical content on any visited web pages), and thus, none of these ads originate from the visited sites.

Third party advertisements conceal underlying web content, thereby significantly diminishing the Internet browsing experience. Furthermore, some redirect to malicious websites - clicking them is risky and may lead to further adware or malware infections.

Olive continually tracks users' Internet browsing activity and collects various software and hardware information including Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, websites visited, pages viewed, search queries, etc. This information might contain personal details that is shared with third party companies who can misuse it to generate revenue.

Thus, having Olive adware installed on your system can lead to serious privacy issues or even identity theft. You are strongly advised to uninstall this adware immediately.

There are many applications with similar behavior to Olive adware. For example, BrowserSafer, Emotypecon, MusicOptimizerLab, and Fresh Outlook also claim to enable valuable functions. These false claims are merely attempts to trick users to install.

After infiltrating the system, these applications simply track personal data and generate intrusive online advertisements. The purpose of adware-type applications is to generat revenue for the developers. Users receive no real value.

How did Olive install on my computer?

This adware is mostly distributed as a 'bundle' with other software. The bundling method is essentially stealth installation of additional software with the chosen software/apps.

Developers intentionally hide rogue applications within the 'Custom' or 'Advanced' settings, since they are aware that many users rush when downloading and installing software. The problem is that users often do not expect that rogue apps will be concealed - they skip most/all steps, resulting in inadvertent installation of third party software.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

Bear in mind that adware-type applications usually infiltrate the system during download or installation of other software, and therefore, you should be attentive during these processes. Select the 'Custom' or 'Advanced' settings, rather than 'Quick' or 'Typical'. This will reveal any third party software listed for download/installation and allow you to opt-out.

Olive adware installer set-up:

Screenshot of Olive application:

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Quick menu:

• What is Olive?
• STEP 1. Uninstall Olive application using Control Panel.
• STEP 2. Remove Olive adware from Internet Explorer.
• STEP 3. Remove Olive ads from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove 'Ads by Olive' from Mozilla Firefox.
• STEP 5. Remove Olive ads from Safari.
• STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.

Olive adware removal:

Windows 11 users:

Right-click on the Start icon, select Apps and Features. In the opened window search for the application you want to uninstall, after locating it, click on the three vertical dots and select Uninstall.

Windows 10 users:

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.

Windows 7 users:

Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.

macOS (OSX) users:

Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

In the uninstall programs window, look for "Olive v1.2.7.0", select this entry and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".

After uninstalling the potentially unwanted program that causes Olive ads, scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components or possible malware infections. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.

Remove Olive adware from Internet browsers:

At time of research, Olive did not install its browser plug-ins on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox, however, it was bundled with other adware. Therefore, you are advised to remove all potentially unwanted browser add-ons from your Internet browsers.

Video showing how to remove potentially unwanted browser add-ons:

Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". Look for any recently-installed suspicious browser extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the olive browser adware, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.

Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.

In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.

Click the Reset button.

Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons, select these entries and click the trash can icon.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the olive browser adware, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon  (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons". Click "Extensions", in the opened window, remove all recently-installed suspicious browser plug-ins.

Optional method:

Computer users who have problems with olive browser adware removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.

Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.

Select Troubleshooting Information.

In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.

Remove malicious extensions from Safari:

Make sure your Safari browser is active, click Safari menu, and select Preferences....

In the opened window click Extensions, locate any recently installed suspicious extension, select it and click Uninstall.

Optional method:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...

In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Remove malicious extensions from Microsoft Edge:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the upper-right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons and click "Remove" below their names.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the olive browser adware, reset your Microsoft Edge browser settings. Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge) and select Settings.

In the opened settings menu select Reset settings.

Select Restore settings to their default values. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Microsoft Edge settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

• If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.

Summary:

Commonly, adware or potentially unwanted applications infiltrate Internet browsers through free software downloads. Note that the safest source for downloading free software is via developers' websites only. To avoid installation of adware, be very attentive when downloading and installing free software. When installing previously-downloaded free programs, choose the custom or advanced installation options – this step will reveal any potentially unwanted applications listed for installation together with your chosen free program.

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