{"id":2532,"date":"2014-11-01T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T09:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:55","slug":"how-to-remove-sitesking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-sitesking\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove SitesKing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Hope you are having a great Halloween. I just found another <strong>bundled adware<\/strong> called <strong>SitesKing<\/strong> and wanted give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. This seems to be a variant of <a title=\"Website Counselor \u2013 Adware Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-website-counselor\/\"><strong>Website Counselor<\/strong><\/a> that I&#8217;ve previously blogged about. If the SitesKing adware is running on your computer, you&#8217;ll find a new add-on called SiteKing 3.7 in Mozilla Firefox&#8217; add-on menu. I&#8217;ll show how to remove SitesKing in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-3.7-firefox-extension.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-3.7-firefox-extension.png\" alt=\"SitesKing 3.7 firefox extension\" width=\"527\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-3.7-firefox-extension.png 527w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-3.7-firefox-extension-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SitesKing is <strong>bundled<\/strong> with a number of downloads. Bundling means that software is included in other software&#8217;s installers. When I first found SitesKing, it was bundled with the\u00a0<strong>Softsonic Downloader<\/strong>. This is how SitesKing was disclosed in Softsonic Downloader&#8217;s installer when I found it. Yes, that is correct, Website Counselor was disclosed, but SitesKing was installed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-installer.png\" alt=\"SitesKing installer\" width=\"774\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-installer.png 774w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-installer-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as SitesKing by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.<\/p>\n<p>Since you probably want to <strong>remove SitesKing<\/strong>, this is the files you should check for removal if you want to remove it with <a title=\"The freeware FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. You may have to reboot your computer to complete the removal. Did that help you solve the problem?\u00a0Hope this helped you solved the SitesKing problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-Firefox-Extension-Remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-Firefox-Extension-Remove.png\" alt=\"SitesKing Firefox Extension Remove\" width=\"388\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-Firefox-Extension-Remove.png 388w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SitesKing-Firefox-Extension-Remove-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also find SitesKing on your machine? Any idea how it installed? Please share in the comments below. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading and welcome back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Hope you are having a great Halloween. I just found another bundled adware called SitesKing and wanted give you some removal instructions. This seems to be a variant of Website Counselor that I&#8217;ve previously blogged about. If the SitesKing adware is running on your computer, you&#8217;ll find a new add-on called SiteKing 3.7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-sitesking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Remove SitesKing<\/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":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532"}],"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=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}