{"id":2313,"date":"2014-10-23T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:56","slug":"remove-powered-by-smartones-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-powered-by-smartones-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove “powered by SmartOnes” Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello guys and gals. As usual I was looking around on the Internet to see what is being bundled with some software downloads. This time I found something called SmartOnes<\/strong>. If you have SmartOnes on your computer, you’ll find new add-ons installed in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and ads labeled powered by SmartOnes<\/strong> while browsing the web. I’ll show how to remove SmartOnes in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n

\"powered<\/a> \"powered<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s how SmartOnes appears in Firefox and Internet Explorer:<\/p>\n

\"SmartOnes<\/a> \"SmartOnes<\/a><\/p>\n

SmartOnes is distributed by a strategy called bundling<\/strong>. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software’s installers. When I first found SmartOnes, it was bundled with a download called a download claiming to be an episode of the Game of Thrones TV serie<\/strong>. Here’s how it appeared in the installer where I found it:<\/p>\n

\"smartones<\/a><\/p>\n

Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as SmartOnes by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.<\/p>\n

As always when I test some new bundled software I uploaded it to VirusTotal to see if the anti-viruses there detect anything. 4\u00a0of the scanners detected the file. MultiPlug<\/strong> seems to be the common detection name.<\/p>\n

\"smartones<\/a><\/p>\n

The SmartOnes removal<\/strong> with FreeFixer<\/a> is straightforward. Check all the SmartOnes items for removal and click fix. Here’s a few screenshots from the removal that should help you:<\/p>\n

\"smartones<\/a> \"smartones<\/a> \"SmartOnes<\/a><\/p>\n

To remove the Chrome extension, type in\u00a0chrome:\/\/extensions\/<\/strong> in Chrome’s address bar.<\/p>\n

Hope this helped you remove the SmartOnes adware.<\/p>\n

Any idea how SmartOnes was installed on your computer? Please share by posting a comment. Thanks a bunch!<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading and welcome back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello guys and gals. As usual I was looking around on the Internet to see what is being bundled with some software downloads. This time I found something called SmartOnes. If you have SmartOnes on your computer, you’ll find new add-ons installed in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and ads labeled powered by SmartOnes … Continue reading Remove “powered by SmartOnes” Ads<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}