Wooden Seal is an unwanted software found attached to free software offered in download platforms. This broadcasting technique allows them to achieve a huge amount of successful installations in computers whose owners would not have installed it otherwise.
The only goal of this infection is to show as much ads as possible when we’re browsing the internet, while also spying on everything we do. These ads could be pop-ups, banners, or green or blue underlined links within the text of the website you’re visiting. These ads include the tag Wooden Seal Ads, thanks to this tag many people realize they have been infected.
Besides ruining your browsing experience, Wooden Seal also spies on everything you do online, saving web searches and visited websites. Wooden Seal also analyzes your computer, for “statistics purposes”, or so they say. Truth is they use all this data to build a profile about you they can easily sell afterwards…
If you visit what seems to be Wooden Seal’s official website, be sure that you won’t get infected there, it’s impossible to download the software on this website even though there is a download button. This page was only created to make public their conditions of use, where every task the software does is detailed; this is done so they can be protected in face of the law.
For your information please know that Wooden Seal is detected as suspicious by 20 security software.
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How to remove Wooden Seal ?
Remove Wooden Seal with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a very useful tool made to remove unwelcome toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner requires no set up and can be ran in a instantaneous to scan your computer.
- 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 Wooden Seal 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 Wooden Seal.
- 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.
Remove Wooden Seal with HitmanPro
HitmanPro is an anti-virus program that describes itself as a second opinion scanner that should be used in conjunction with another anti-virus program that you may already have installed.
- You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
Download HitmanPro - Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
- Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
- HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for Wooden Seal malicious files.
- When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove Wooden Seal virus.
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