Pine Tree: Remove ads - how it works

Pine Tree turns on personalized advertising in your internet browser. If you want to remove them, a few simple steps are necessary. In this practical tip, we will tell you how to do this.

Step 1: Remove Pine Tree from the browser

Start by removing the plugin from your browser:

• To do this, switch to the overview of the installed plugins of your browser. Search them for "Pine Tree".
• Clicking "Remove" will remove Pine Tree from your browser.
• You can find detailed instructions on how to remove the plugins in other articles for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
• After you have successfully removed the plugin, you should restart your PC.

Step 2: clean up the pine tree link

For security reasons, it is advisable to check the shortcuts of your browser:

• To do this, right-click on your browser and select "Properties".
• Click in the "Destination" field and make sure that only the destination and the .exe file of the browser are listed here.
• If there are other entries, select them and then delete them.
• Then click "OK" to save the changes.

Step 3: final check of the computer

• Finally, run a full scan of your PC with your antivirus.
• Then remove all the finds and then restart your PC.
• You should also check your PC with the freeware AdwCleaner. The program searches for adware that you can remove at the end.
• If you have successfully removed all the finds, restart your PC one last time.

This practical tip is based on AdwCleaner 5.102 under Windows 7. In our next practical tip, read how you can properly remove adware and malware.