What is Speedtray?

What is Speedtray?

Speedtray is yet another unwanted application officially listed as an adware. Once installed it will flood all of your web browsers with annoying advertisements. Those ads are not only annoying, but malicious as well, therefore you should not keep Speedtray installed on your computer. Usually advertisements displayed by Speedtray are labeled with slogan “Ads by SpeedTray” or “Brought to you by SeedTray”, so if you have noticed this occurrence on any of your web browsers, or computer is definitely infected and you need to take care of that.

There are two most popular ways to eliminate Speedtray – manually or automatically. It’s much easier to perform this automatically, so we recommend to choose this methods. Simply download reliable anti-malware application, such as SpyHunter or Malwarebytes and scan your computer with it. It will automatically detect and eliminate the virus just in a few seconds. It will also protect your computer from similar infections in the future, so it’s worth to keep it installed. You can use other anti-malware software of your choice as well.

In case you prefer to perform this manually, we have developed a step-by-step Speedtray manual removal guide – go find it below this article. Follow all steps carefully and you will be able to eliminate this infection by yourself for good.

If you have some questions related to this topic, you can always ask us in the comments section below and we will do our best to answer them all. In case you would like to learn more about specific features of Speedtray adware, please continue reading this article.

About Speedtray adware

Speedtray should enhance your web browsing experience for free, but it’s not true. Developers of this malicious application just seeks to make some money by displaying various advertisements to users through this add-on. It works as browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and even Safari. This means Apple users can get infected as well.

Those advertisements can be displayed in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text or banner advertisements. New tab or even window with advertisement can be opened on any of your web browsers as well. They appear completely randomly, from time to time, so it’s really annoying. Moreover, it’s malicious. We don’t recommend you to click on any of those advertisements displayed by Speedtray because if you do so, you will be immediately redirected to other websites that may be owned by cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected or in case you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

Speedtray can be described as advertising network for cyber criminals – since they are banned from all legitimate advertising networks, they use adware like this to promote their websites and direct some traffic to them. This being said, if you keep Speedtray installed on your computer, cyber cryminals can reach you right on your web browser on a daily basis and that’s really dangerous.

Distribution Methods of Speedtray adware

You can get infected with this malware simply by downloading and installing freeware from unreliable websites. I.e. when you donwload install some freebie from the Internet, there is a chance that Speedtray will be installed alongside without you even being aware of that. To avoid this happening, you should pay close attention to the installation process of freebies.

Never skip any steps and always opt out for a custom or advanced install mode if possible. This way you will be able to see all available options and make changes. Look for various checkboxes that can be already checked for you. Don’t rush because some of the most important information can be displayed in a very tiny font and you don’t want to overlook that. Reading all terms and conditions would be considered wise as well. In case it’s already too late and your computer is infected with Speedtray, wait no more and take needed actions to get rid of this malicious application, otherwise it can cause you a lot of unwanted consequences.