What is Candle Jar?

Candle Jar is an adware that deceives the users by pretending to be a legitimate application handy for people who do online shopping. It promises to show the best online offers and promotional activities, like discounts and coupons. However in reality the assurance is replaced with irritating ads, spying on personal information, and problems with the system. Being an adware, Candle Jar shows a lot of advertisement to lure the user to the websites of the customers. Getting into the system Candle Jar lowers the system security and puts at risk your private data. The adware is able to gather the information on user’s preferences and send it to third-parties. To assure the system safety you should remove Candle Jar from your PC.

Candle Jar ads

How Candle Jar gets on your PC?

For malware developers it became an advantageous method of distributing their products though bundling them with free software that is popular among users. This method is legal and quite easy to avoid, as there is an opportunity to decline an offer of installing additional software. So, in most cases, getting Candle Jar is partly a user’s fault. It is almost impossible to get infected with malware if one chooses reliable download resources, reads installation terms and deselects additional software that can be seen in Custom or Advanced type of installation.

How to remove Candle Jar from your computer?

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

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You can try both of these products to remove Candle Jar

Or uninstall Candle Jar manually.

Step 1: Remove Candle Jar from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Candle Jar.
  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 Candle Jar 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 Candle Jar, 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 Candle Jar 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 Candle Jar from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Candle Jar from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Candle Jar.
  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 Candle Jar.
  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 Candle Jar.
  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 Candle Jar:

Remove following registry entries:

no information

Remove following files:

CandleJar.dll

Remove following folders

%PROGRAMFILES%\Candle Jar\

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