How To Remove Palnk.pw Adware

Complete Guideline To Delete Palnk.pw

Palnk.pw is the name of a malevolent domain that can appear on your web browser when there is an adware or a potentially unwanted program running in the background of your system. It’s an advertising platform that is used for promoting third-parties content, redirecting people to affiliated sites and generating advertising revenues. Although these redirects cannot harm the PC directly; the adware may try to promote potentially dangerous websites. Therefore, if you keep seeing the web page saying that certain website “wants to show notifications” and claims like “Click Allow to confirm that you are not a Robot,” that’s clearly a trick used to deceive users into subscribing Push Notifications.

Know More About Palnk.pw:

If you agree to get the notifications from Palnk.pw by pressing the “Allow” button, you will be flooded with thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that will disrupt your web sessions badly. Ads delivered by this PUP are in various forms such as deals, coupons, banners, pop-ups, offers, discounts etc. They look very attractive however they are not as good in nature as they seem to be. These ads include vicious links and once click on them, you are redirected to phishing, scamming or even malware-laden sites that may host trojan, spyware or even destructive ransomware.

Palnk.pw adware is capable of tracking users’ online activities and gathering important data regarding their interests, needs and other preferences. These details are employed for creating and displaying eye-catching advertisements in order to get as many hits on them as possible and earn maximum profits. Moreover, this nasty PUP may also steal your personal data relating to banking and other financial details and hence, it can be a big hazard for your privacy too. Palnk.pw virus can even trigger downloads of fake updates, rogue prize giveaways, display misleading proposals that eventually may end up with the downloads of malware.

Security experts warn that these potentially unwanted programs seek to scam users and flood their browsers with misleading ads. The biggest problem is that some of its affiliates can decide to promote malware and, therefore, regularly provide you will a pop-up that redirects to malware download sites. Therefore, prevent such a scenario and focus on Palnk.pw adware removal without a delay.

Threat Details

Name: Palnk.pw

Type: Adware, Push notification virus, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Aims to get maximum subscribers, Redirects people to third-party sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online revenues for the creators, Also steals users’ personal and confidential information and share them with hackers for evil purposes.

Symptoms: Tons of intrusive adverts, Changes in default browser’s settings, default Internet search engine, Fake pop-up messages, identity theft, new tab settings, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), Deceptive emails, malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

How Does This PUP Enter Your System?

Browser-based infections are usually spread bundled with freeware and shareware. The additional components like add-ons, plug-ins, extensions, etc. are not revealed properly under Quick or Basic installation settings. Therefore, if people select such an installation setup, they will not find out that a bunch of malware has been installed alongside. In addition to that, visiting infectious sites, clicking on malicious ads or hyperlinks etc. also lead to the PUP installations.

Tips To Prevent Such Attacks?

Having this deception of scammers in mind, people should cautiously choose what freeware to install and how its installation process should be performed. The most primitive thing to keep in mind is to opt for the Advanced or Custom installation method and monitor the installation process carefully. Look for the offers to install “optional features” that are someway going to enhance the web browsing experience. In case your computer is already infected with this PUP, you must remove Palnk.pw from the device without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Palnk.pw:

Remove the related items of Palnk.pw using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Palnk.pw issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Palnk.pw) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Palnk.pw removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Palnk.pw still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Palnk.pw plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Palnk.pw removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Palnk.pw (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.