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Semalinkar.com: Manual Uninstall Guide

Semalinkar.com is an ad-supported site that focuses on the social engineering tactics to make users subscribe to its notifications. It tries to make people visit more commercial pages and click on advertisements, banners, pop-ups, other types of browser windows that fill up the screen. This is not a web page that displays anything useful or interesting because PUP relies on collecting views and visits instead. The deceptive site gets opened when you click on misleading ads or add a potentially unwanted program/browser extension with dubious purposes on the work-station. You may allow such intrusion unintentionally when you use the shady free download page as your source for any software.

Semalinkar.com Triggers Redirects To Suspicious Pages:

The Semalinkar.com virus is not considered hazardous itself as it cannot permanently damage the machine or cause serious issues. However, once the site redirects you to any other portal, there is no guarantee that the object you get exposed to is safe and trustworthy. Any third-party content and sites that you are redirected to can be linked to malware-laced domains or contain automatic threat downloads. You should immediately close the window that contains any suspicious ads or redirects, additional material that is not related to the page itself.

Semalinkar.com typically appears out of nowhere on the screen or after the redirect from another ad-supported domain, so the affected users are not aware of what happened or what caused the issue with the traffic. Nonetheless, once or twice, it occurs randomly. When you obtain redirects, pop-ups, deal with speed issues, and other symptoms probably related to commercial content or medications in settings of the computer, you can be sure that adware has found its way on your system and affected all these parts while running in the background.

There are features that make Semalinkar.com PUP more malevolent and dangerous than a simple intrusive adware infection. Advertisers have many features that allow them to track and gather details about users’ online habits and systems that they use. Such data is valuable because most viewed sites, search queries, location, IP address and similar details are vital in advertising campaigns. Unfortunately, your information may end up shared with third-parties or cyber criminals who can misuse those details. And hence, the infection can result in financial losses, privacy issues and identity theft. If you manage to perform Semalinkar.com removal once you encounter the first issues, you can avoid those alterations.

Ways To Propagate Semalinkar.com:

Installing anything from the web without reading License Agreement first may result in the issues with the device itself or your privacy, apart from the performance or speed issues. Some tools give the impression of usefulness, but they act as potentially unwanted programs and day attacking apps, so pay attention to the software you install. These unwanted installations generally take place when you install freeware apps via the Quick settings after downloading it from unreliable third-party pages.

The best tip to prevent such situation would be to choose Advanced or Custom installation options every time you update or download any software. This is the method that opens the complete list of programs included in the setup, and you can control what apps to get. But at the moment, you must remove Semalinkar.com from the computer 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 Semalinkar.com:

Remove the related items of Semalinkar.com 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 Semalinkar.com 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 (Semalinkar.com) 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 Semalinkar.com 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 Semalinkar.com 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 Semalinkar.com 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 Semalinkar.com 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 Semalinkar.com (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.