{"id":1783,"date":"2014-09-18T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:01","slug":"remove-website-counselor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-website-counselor\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Counselor &#8211; Adware Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found a new adware called\u00a0<strong>Website Counselor<\/strong> that is being bundled with other software downloads. Here&#8217;s how it appeared in the installer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1787 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-installer.png\" alt=\"Website Counselor installer disclosure\" width=\"756\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-installer.png 756w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-installer-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website Counselor<\/strong> is installed as an <strong>add-on in Firefox<\/strong>. It will appears as\u00a0<strong>Website Counselor 0.1<\/strong> in the add-ons menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-0.1-firefox-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1784 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-0.1-firefox-add-on.png\" alt=\"Website Counselor 0.1 in the Firefox Add-on Menu\" width=\"783\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-0.1-firefox-add-on.png 783w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-0.1-firefox-add-on-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do I know that this is <strong>adware<\/strong>? Well, the Website Counselor EULA clearly explains that <strong>it can show advertisements<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-adware.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1785 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-adware.png\" alt=\"Website Counselor Adware - The EULA\" width=\"609\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-adware.png 609w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-adware-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to <strong>remove\u00a0Website Counselor<\/strong> you can do so by removing it from the Firefox add-ons menu. You can also remove it with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> by checking the\u00a0Website Counselor extension for removal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1786 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-firefox.png\" alt=\"How to remove Website Counselor from Firefox\" width=\"791\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-firefox.png 791w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/website-counselor-firefox-300x98.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you figure about what\u00a0Website Counselor and how to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>Any idea how you got this on your machine? Please share by posting a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a new adware called\u00a0Website Counselor that is being bundled with other software downloads. Here&#8217;s how it appeared in the installer: &nbsp; Website Counselor is installed as an add-on in Firefox. It will appears as\u00a0Website Counselor 0.1 in the add-ons menu. How do I know that this is adware? Well, the Website Counselor EULA clearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-website-counselor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Website Counselor &#8211; Adware Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}