How To Remove Smilerweek.com Pop-ups

Complete Guide To Delete Advertising App

Smilerweek.com is a shady webpage which tends to promote spam browser notifications and redirect users to unfamiliar web places, including the unreliable and malicious ones. You might have ended up on this deceptive site after clicking on a misleading link on some other insecure portal. However, such unwanted redirects can be also caused by the adware-type infection that is currently roaming somewhere inside the compromised device. Shortly after the page entry, visitors are presented with the notification prompt and are asked to click on the “Allow” button to continue to the page. If they do, they begin to receive annoying advertisements that come directly to their desktop or screen.

Threat Summary

Name: Smilerweek.com

Type: Push notification virus, adware

Characteristics: Tends to deceive people into accepting its push notifications, shows invasive commercials and causes page-redirects people to different sites

Threat level: Medium

Distribution methods: Tends to enter the computer devices via bundled software, in general

Symptoms: Abrupt browser notifications, display of irksome commercial materials, page-redirects to mysterious sites

Is The Smilerweek.com Page Dangerous?

Smilerweek.com is not dangerous itself and the main purpose of its developers is to earn pay-per-click advertising income. However, the thing is that these people don’t filter the adverts shown by their platform. So, it is likely that along with the reliable ones, you may be also presented with the ads that could be leading to potentially unsafe websites where you would be attempted to be tricked into installing malicious software or revealing your personal data to fraudsters. So, make sure you stay away from these ads irrespective of how tempting they’re.

What Causes Undesired Reroutes?

As said earlier, redirects to Smilerweek.com could have occurred after the interaction with deceptive online content, or might have just triggered by the adware-type infection. Many people deem that their computer is infected with a virus after they notice strange browser behavior like annoying ad-generation and page-redirects. However, you shouldn’t need to be worried too much as it’s not a software piece that can damage your computer or ruin your valuable data. All it can do is interrupting your online sessions with annoying ads and redirects. But still, you should remove Smilerweek.com adware from the machine at the first place because some of its redirects may expose you to potentially dangerous websites.

How Does The Adware Intrude PCs?

In general, potentially unwanted programs like adware, browser hijackers and others infiltrate the computer systems along with other free programs. This deceptive marketing method of pre-packing regular apps with unwanted or hateful ones is said to be bundling and is highly successful since many people rush through the installation process. With this in mind, you should never be in hurry while downloading and installing any new software on your computer. Always pick the Advanced or Custom configuration setting so as to view and opt-out the unnecessary apps from the bundle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why am I seeing so many Smilerweek.com ads?

That’s because you’ve been tricked into granting the site to send you notifications directly on your desktop or screen. You should never accept such unsafe sites’ notifications and close the page right away without interacting with anything.

Are those ads misleading?

Remember that the website doesn’t filter the ads displayed via it. So, not all the ads you receive can be considered reliable. Oftentimes, you may obtain the advertising contents which upon clicked, may reroute you to potentially hazardous web locations with all sorts of hateful materials.

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 Smilerweek.com:

Remove the related items of Smilerweek.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 Smilerweek.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 (Smilerweek.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 Smilerweek.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 Smilerweek.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 Smilerweek.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 Smilerweek.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 Smilerweek.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.