What is Albireo?

Albireo is a program that comes into your PC in the form of browser’s extensions. This program is a potentially unwanted program. Albireo seems very comfortable, but in fact, it can harm your computer. Albireo displays banner ads, coupons and links of partner sites. According to the developers, this program was created to help users to make purchases on the Internet and to find the best offers. In fact, this program is designed only to make money. This program can gain access to your personal data, learn your passwords from credit cards, analyze a history of your browsing than it can transfer this information to third parties. If found the program in your computer you should delete it immediately.

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How Albireo gets on your PC?

Malicious software that is often among the potentially unwanted programs penetrates a computer with other free programs such as archivers, players, editors and so on. This happens without the user’s knowledge. The main reason for this – the user carelessness. Few people read the user agreement and other information during the installation. Sometimes ad sites create their download managers and hide therein potentially malicious software. If you want to prevent the infiltration of unwanted software, then you need to follow a few rules. Always read the user agreement. Select advanced type of installation and make sure that you aren’t offered to install something to supplement. Do not agree to install unfamiliar software. You can also use special programs that will help you to protect your PC. If your PC is already infected, then use our instructions to get rid of Albireo.

How to remove Albireo from your computer?

To uninstall Albireo remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Albireo in their database. You can try to use them for removing Albireo.

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You can try both of these products to remove Albireo

Or uninstall Albireo manually.

Step 1: Remove Albireo from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Albireo.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Albireo and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Albireo, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
  2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
  3. On the right side, locate Albireo and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
  4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Albireo from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Albireo from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Albireo.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Albireo.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Albireo.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Albireo:

Remove following registry entries:

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Remove following files:

Albireo.exe
unins000.exe

Remove following folders

C:\Program Files (x86)\Albireo
C:\Program Files\Albireo

Written by Rami Douafi

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