{"id":1411,"date":"2014-08-12T18:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","slug":"remove-salus-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-salus-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"Salus Adware &#8211; &#8220;Ads by Salus&#8221; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you see ads labeled &#8220;<strong>Ads by Salus<\/strong>&#8221; while browsing the web, even on web sites that normally don&#8217;t have any advertisements? If so, you have the <strong>Salus Adware<\/strong> installed on your machine. Here&#8217;s how a <strong>Salus<\/strong> banner might look like:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-ads-by-salus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1412 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-ads-by-salus.png\" alt=\"Ads by salus\" width=\"744\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-ads-by-salus.png 744w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-ads-by-salus-300x51.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a>The <strong>Salus adware<\/strong>, or <strong>Salus Protector<\/strong>, or <strong>Salus Internet Protector<\/strong> as the installer refers to it is bundled with other software downloads. I found Salus bundled with an <a title=\"Smart Secure Software S.l \u2013 Bundling and VirusTotal Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/smart-secure-software-s-l\/\">unofficial Google Chrome download<\/a>. Here&#8217;s how the disclosure looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-internet-protector-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-internet-protector-installer.png\" alt=\"salus internet protector installer\" width=\"686\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-internet-protector-installer.png 686w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-internet-protector-installer-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For obvious reasons, Salus is adware. However, it appears as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">anti-virus scanners<\/a> have not yet started to detect it. Detection rate is 0\/54 according to VirusTotal. I&#8217;m sure the anti-virus scanners will detect Salus sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can the Salus Adware be removed. No problem, you can easily uninstall it with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/Salus.exe-137047\/\">salus.exe<\/a> and salus.sys file as shown in the screenshots below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.sys-driver.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.sys-driver.png\" alt=\"salus.sys driver\" width=\"785\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.sys-driver.png 785w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.sys-driver-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.exe-startup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.exe-startup.png\" alt=\"salus.exe startup\" width=\"788\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.exe-startup.png 788w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus.exe-startup-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or from the uninstall programs dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-uninstall1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-uninstall1.png\" alt=\"salus uninstall\" width=\"657\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-uninstall1.png 657w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/salus-uninstall1-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also have Salus installed on your machine? Any idea how it installed itself?<\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you see ads labeled &#8220;Ads by Salus&#8221; while browsing the web, even on web sites that normally don&#8217;t have any advertisements? If so, you have the Salus Adware installed on your machine. Here&#8217;s how a Salus banner might look like:The Salus adware, or Salus Protector, or Salus Internet Protector as the installer refers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-salus-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salus Adware &#8211; &#8220;Ads by Salus&#8221; Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}