Honest malware & browser-hijack remover for Windows
Vow finds the adware, unwanted programs, hijacked browsers and hidden startup tricks behind a misbehaving PC, tells you why in plain words, and removes them for free into a quarantine you can undo. A second opinion next to your antivirus, with no scare tactics and nothing uploaded.
The problem
You want the pop-ups gone and your own search engine back. Instead you get a red alarm, a huge threat count and a checkout page.
"1,284 threats found!" Cookies and registry "errors" counted as danger, so the number looks worth paying to fix.
The scan is free; the button that actually removes anything sits behind a trial or a yearly plan.
A strange home page, a new search provider and an extension nobody installed, in every browser on the PC.
Sites that tricked someone into clicking Allow keep pushing ads and scams onto the desktop.
Tasks hiding among Windows' own, image hijacks and WMI tricks that simple scanners never check.
Aggressive cleaners remove things without saying why, and offer no way back when they guess wrong.
Vow Malware & Hijack Remover fixes all of it.
How it works
A quick scan runs the moment it opens, every finding is explained, and every removal can be undone.
A read-only quick scan starts on its own and takes seconds. Results are grouped as malware, browser hijacks, adware and notification spam.
Every item says what it is, why Vow thinks so and where it is. The sure ones are ticked; the doubtful ones are yours to judge.
Vow shows the plan, ends the program, removes what starts it, quarantines its files and puts browser settings back. Undo all is one click.
Features
Adware, hijacked browsers, notification spam and persistence tricks, judged on evidence you can read.
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium, Yandex and Firefox: search engine, home page, startup pages and extensions.
Sites allowed to show notifications are listed, with spam told apart from your own, in Chromium browsers and Firefox.
Run keys, Startup folders, every scheduled task, services, Winlogon, image hijacks, AppInit DLLs, WMI consumers and more.
Unsigned programs and scripts are also checked by the antivirus Windows uses, through AMSI, plus Microsoft Defender on demand.
Each finding says what it is, why Vow flagged it and where it lives, instead of a cryptic detection name.
Files go to a quarantine, scrambled so they can't run; settings files are backed up and registry changes recorded first.
The hosts file, rogue proxies, known DNS-changer ranges and Superfish-style trusted root certificates.
Installed programs are checked against 37 families of adware, hijackers, scareware and bundlers, plus the folders they leave.
Drop a file or a whole folder on the window and it is checked straight away, free and without limit.
Unlimited adds a light tray guard that catches changes to browsers, startup entries and network settings, with one-click undo.
Light & dark theme
Malware Remover comes with a crisp light theme and a calm dark theme. Switch with one click, or let it follow your Windows setting by itself. It remembers your choice.
Screenshots
Real screenshots of the real app, in both of its themes: 12 light, 12 dark. Click any picture to see it full size.
Light theme
Dark theme
Who it's for
Find the program or extension behind the ads and remove it together with whatever starts it.
Put Chrome, Edge or Firefox back to their own search engine, home page and new tab.
Catch the search bars, bundled browsers and unwanted programs that rode along with an installer.
A clear list with reasons makes the clean-up quick, and Undo makes it safe.
Vow looks where antivirus usually doesn't, and asks your antivirus about suspicious files too.
Inspect lists everything the scan looked at with Vow's verdict, like Autoruns in plain words.
Compare
The difference between a second opinion you can trust and a removal tool built on fear.
| Feature | Vow Malware & Hijack Remover | Typical adware & PUP removers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Removal free; Unlimited $9.95 once | Paid removal, trials or yearly plans |
| Counts cookies and registry "errors" as threats | Never | Common with scareware cleaners |
| Explains every finding | Yes, in plain words | Usually just a detection name |
| Notification spam sites | Found and removed | Rarely checked |
| Undo for every step | Yes, plus a Simulation mode | Quarantine only, at best |
| Hosts, proxy, DNS and root certificates | Checked and fixed | Partly, or not at all |
| Real-time hijack protection | $9.95 once | Subscription, where offered |
| Ads and bundled extras | None, ever | Common on free downloads |
"Typical" describes what we found across the most-downloaded alternatives when we built Malware Remover. Your mileage with any one of them may vary; ours won't.
Pricing
That is not a typo. Software this powerful usually means a monthly subscription; Malware Remover is $9.95, once, for life: it's almost a giveaway. Use it free for as long as you like, and unlock Unlimited only if you need more.
Unlimited quick scans and removals, 2 full scans a day.
Almost a giveaway. Less than a takeaway lunch for software this powerful: no subscription, no renewals, yours for life on 2 PCs.
Real-time hijack protection, scheduled scans, one-click browser reset.
Payments by Stripe: we never see or store your card. Questions? Ask a real person.
Clean software
Most "free" Windows downloads pay for themselves with ads, bundled extras or your data. Vow Malware & Hijack Remover doesn't need to: it's paid for honestly, once, by the people who find it useful.
Download Malware Remover freeStep-by-step guide
From a hijacked search engine to a clean browser in a few minutes, with every change undoable.
Step 1: get it freeDownload it from this page and run the installer. It installs for your own user account without administrator rights, needs no account, and uploads nothing.
It starts by itself when the app opens and takes a few seconds. Press F5 to scan again, or Full scan to check every program and script on every fixed drive.
Look through Malware & threats, Browser hijacks, Adware & unwanted programs and Notification spam. Open any item for its reasons and location, or ask Microsoft Defender.
Check the plan: what goes, which browsers must close and whether Windows will ask for administrator rights. When it will, a System Restore point is made first.
Open Browsers to see each profile's search engine, home page, startup pages, extensions and notification sites, and fix anything left. Undo lives in Quarantine & history.
Technical details
FAQ
Yes. Quick scans, scanning files and folders, and removing every threat and hijack it finds are free without limit, plus 2 full scans of the whole PC a day. Unlimited, a one-time $9.95 USD payment, adds real-time hijack protection, scheduled scans, the one-click reset of every browser and unlimited full scans.
No. It is a second opinion that works next to your antivirus, not instead of it. It concentrates on what antivirus products usually leave alone (adware, unwanted programs, browser hijacks, notification spam and persistence tricks) and asks your own antivirus engine about unsigned programs and scripts through Windows' AMSI.
No. Everything is checked on your PC. The second opinion comes from the antivirus already on your PC, and VirusTotal is only opened in your browser with a file's SHA-256 fingerprint when you ask; the file itself is not sent.
Scanning never changes anything, and removal shows its plan first. Files go to a quarantine, settings files are backed up and registry changes are recorded, so removals can be undone. Windows' own files are never removed on suspicion alone, and browser settings are only edited while the browser is closed.
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Opera GX, Chromium, Yandex and Firefox, in every profile. It checks the search engine, home page, startup pages, extensions, notification sites, browser policies and hijacked shortcuts. A reset keeps your bookmarks, passwords, history and cookies.
It also finds notification spam sites, explains every item in plain words, and offers Simulation and undo for every step rather than quarantine alone. Removal is always free, not a 30-day trial as with HitmanPro, and real-time hijack protection is $9.95 once instead of a subscription.
It is part of Unlimited: a light guard in the notification area re-checks what hijackers change every minute, and immediately when a browser's settings file, the hosts file, a Startup folder or the Desktop's shortcuts change. Suspicious changes become alerts with Undo it or Keep it, or clear hijacks can be undone automatically.
Yes. It is made and published by XTO Pty Ltd, an Australian company. There are no ads and no bundled software, it installs per user without administrator rights, and it uninstalls cleanly from Windows Settings, stopping its guard and removing its scheduled scan first.
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