SmileysWeLove is a potentially unwanted program that offers you the possibility to insert smileys in forums, chats, etc… The problem is that this software is installed with some other free software. Its author knows that most people won’t read everything marked when they’re installing a software, they actually want and trust in this lack of attention to succeed in installing their tool. Here’s an example of SmileysWeLove being installed by a non-official Java setup program:
SmileysWeLove takes the form of a web browser extension or plug-in for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. The following screen-shot shows how it looks like in Chrome:
This software will make its best effort to insert ads in every website you visit, this also makes it an unwanted program. Be sure then, if SmileysWeLove is in your computer, chances are you’ll be seeing a lot of ads identified as ads by SmileysWeLove in every possible corner.
There is no clear and direct way to remove it completely, this is normal for this kind of software because being such a good source of income for its creator, it’s built in a way that makes this task look like an impossible mission for you. To help you with this task, we have selected a group of anti-adware tools that will detect and remove every SmileysWeLove’s dependencies present in your computer.
For your information please know that SmileysWeLove is considered as suspicious by 2 anti-viruses.
How to remove SmileysWeLove ?
Remove SmileysWeLove from your browser
- Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon
in top right corner. - Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
- Remove SmileysWeLove by clicking the trash can
icon.
- Restart Chrome.
- Open Firefox
- Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
- Remove SmileysWeLove by clicking the Remove button.
- Restart Firefox
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the Gear icon
, then click on Manage Addons - Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
- Select and disable SmileysWeLove if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
- Restart Internet Explorer
Remove SmileysWeLove with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool designed to delete unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no installation and can be ran in a instantaneous to examine your system.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove SmileysWeLove with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for SmileysWeLove.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
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