About this threat
TheDocPDFConverter reroutes are happening because of an adware on your machine. You yourself installed the adware, it happened during a freeware installation. Because adware may infiltrate undiscovered and can be working in the background, some users are not even see the adware installing on their PCs. What the adware will do is it will create intrusive pop-up ads but won’t directly endanger your machine, as it’s not a malicious computer virus. It can, however, expose you to malicious domains and you can end up with malware. We highly encourage you terminate TheDocPDFConverter before it can do more harm.
How does adware affect my PC
Ad-supported applications will generally infect quite silently, using freeware bundles to do it. If you haven’t realized already, the majority of free software comes together with unnecessary offers. Adware, redirect viruses and other probably unneeded programs (PUPs) may be adjoined. You ought to refrain from using Default mode during setup, since those settings will authorize all kinds of offers to set up. Which is why you need to use Advance or Custom mode. If you choose Advanced instead of Default, you will be authorized to deselect all, so you are encouraged to select those. You may never know what kind of items could be adjoined to free programs so you need to always select those settings.
You will be able to easily tell when an advertising-supported application is set up because of the grown amount of ads. You will come across advertisements everywhere, whether you prefer Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The only way to really remove the ads is to delete TheDocPDFConverter, so you should proceed with that as soon as possible. Adware exist to make income by presenting you ads.Ad-supported software sometimes present dubious downloads, and you should never proceed with them.You ought to only download applications or updates from trustworthy web pages and not weird pop-ups. The files obtained will not always be safe and might actually include dangerous contaminations so you are suggested to dodge them. Ad-supported programs may also be the reason behind your slow system and crashing browser. Ad-supported applications There is nothing to be acquired from authorizing the adware to remain so we advise you erase TheDocPDFConverter as soon as possible.
How to delete TheDocPDFConverter
You may abolish TheDocPDFConverter in two ways, manually and automatically. We advise you to download spyware elimination software for TheDocPDFConverter uninstallation because that would be the easiest method. You can also eliminate TheDocPDFConverter manually but you will have to identify and remove it and all its associated applications yourself.
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Step 1. Uninstall TheDocPDFConverter from your system
Remove TheDocPDFConverter from Windows 8
Right-click on the Windows icon → Control Panel → Programs and Features.
Uninstall TheDocPDFConverter from Windows 7
Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features → Uninstall a program.
Delete TheDocPDFConverter from Windows XP
Start → Settings → Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs.
Remove TheDocPDFConverter from Mac OS X
Press Go (at the top left corner of the screen) → Applications. Alternatively, you can click on the Finder icon in your dock and press Applications, located on the left side. Find the hijacker and/or any other questionable program. Right-click on all of them and select move to Trash. You can also drag those programs to the Trash (located in the right corner of your dock) and it will have the same effect. Then right-click on the Trash icon and press Empty Trash.
Step 2. Remove TheDocPDFConverter from your browsers
Delete TheDocPDFConverter from Internet Explorer
- Open your Internet Explorer browser and click the Gear icon (top right corner). Select Manage Add-ons.
- Press Toolbars and Extensions and select any weird entries. Click Disable.
- Close the window.
Restore Internet Explorer homepage:
- Open your Internet Explorer browser and click the Gear icon (top right corner). Select Internet options.
- Access the General tab and delete the homepage entry. Type in your preferred homepage and press Apply to save changes.
Reset Internet Explorer
- Open your Internet Explorer browser and click the Gear icon (top right corner). Select Internet options.
- Select Advanced tab. Press Reset.
- Tick the box that says Delete personal settings. Press Reset.
- Click OK.
- If you are unable to reset your browser, or if it still loads weird sites, we recommend you obtain anti-malware software and have it scan your computer.
Remove TheDocPDFConverter from Google Chrome
- Open your browser. Menu (the top right corner) → Settings.
- Select Extensions.
- Locate all suspicious extensions and click the trash icon next to them.
- If you are not sure what extension does what, you can disable them for the time being by deselecting the boxes next to them.
Restore Google Chrome homepage
- Open your browser. Menu (the top right corner) → Settings.
- In settings, under On startup, click Open a specific page or set of pages. Select Set pages.
- In the window that appears, delete the unwanted homepage and enter your preferred one.
- Under Search, click on Manage search engines. Remove all search engines you do not use and click Done.
Reset Google Chrome
- Open your browser. Menu (the top right corner) → Settings.
- Press Show Advanced settings.
- Reset settings.
- Press Reset again when a window appears.
- If you are unable to reset your browser, or if it still loads weird sites, we recommend you obtain anti-malware software and have it scan your computer.
Remove TheDocPDFConverter from Mozilla Firefox
- Open Mozilla Firefox. Press the three bars on the right side of your screen to access the menu. Select Add-ons.
- Access Extensions and remove any suspicious extension. If you are not sure which one does what, you can disable them temporarily.
Restore Mozilla Firefox homepage:
- Open Mozilla Firefox. Press the three bars on the right side of your screen to access the menu. Choose Options.
- In the General tab, delete the unwanted homepage and enter your preferred one. Alternatively, click Restore to Default.
- Press OK.
Reset Mozilla Firefox
- Open Mozilla Firefox. Press the three bars on the right side of your screen to access the menu. Press the Help button (the question mark).
- Press Troubleshooting Information.
- Refresh Firefox.
- In the window that appears, click Refresh Firefox again.
- If you are unable to reset your browser, or if it still loads weird sites, we recommend you obtain anti-malware software and have it scan your computer.
Delete TheDocPDFConverter from Safari (Mac OS X)
- Menu → Preferences
- Access the Extensions tab and uninstall any weird extension. If you are not sure which one does what, you can disable them temporarily by deselecting the box below the extension.
Reset Safari
- Menu → Reset Safari.
- Select what you want to reset in the window that appears and press Reset.

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