{"id":800,"date":"2014-06-06T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=800"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:52","slug":"remove-greener-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-greener-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener Web &#8211; Adware Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another adware find this morning. This one is called\u00a0<strong>Greener Web<\/strong>. You might have noticed <strong>Greener Web<\/strong> when starting up Firefox and being asked to install <strong>Greener Web<\/strong>, or in Mozilla&#8217;s and Internet Explorer&#8217;s add-on dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-1.0.1-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-811 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-1.0.1-firefox.png\" alt=\"Greener Web 1.0.1 in Firefox\" width=\"607\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-1.0.1-firefox.png 607w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-1.0.1-firefox-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-internet-explorer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-814 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-internet-explorer.png\" alt=\"Greener Web appears an Internet Explorer Add-On\" width=\"669\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-internet-explorer.png 669w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-internet-explorer-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-addon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-812 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-addon.png\" alt=\"Greener Web 1.0.1 Firefox Addon\" width=\"688\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-addon.png 688w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-addon-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the\u00a0\u00a0anti-virus programs over at VirusTotal \u00a0detects the <strong>Greener Web adware<\/strong> as you can see in the scan\u00a0result for GreenerWebbho.dll:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-virustotal.png\" alt=\"greener-web-virustotal\" width=\"748\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-virustotal.png 748w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-virustotal-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found <strong>GreenerWeb<\/strong>\u00a0bundled in an unofficial Adobe Flash Player download. The installer file,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/AdobeFlashPlayer.exe-129506\/\">AdobeFlashPlayer.exe<\/a> was digitally signed by <a title=\"SuperCool Applications Publisher \u2013 Warning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/supercool-applications\/\">SuperCool Applications<\/a>. Here&#8217;s how <strong>GreenerWeb<\/strong>\u00a0was disclosed in the installer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerweb-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-817 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerweb-installer.png\" alt=\"GreenerWeb installer disclosure\" width=\"625\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerweb-installer.png 625w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerweb-installer-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did you get Greener Web on your computer? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comment.<\/p>\n<p>You can remove Greener Web with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the Greener Web files for removal and click the Fix button and Greener Web will not bother you any more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-freefixer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-813 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-freefixer.png\" alt=\"Greener Web Firefox Ext in  FreeFixer\" width=\"785\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-freefixer.png 785w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greener-web-firefox-freefixer-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerwebbho.dll-freefixer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-816 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerwebbho.dll-freefixer.png\" alt=\"greenerwebbho.dll in FreeFixer\" width=\"785\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerwebbho.dll-freefixer.png 785w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/greenerwebbho.dll-freefixer-300x69.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you figure out what <strong>Greener Web<\/strong> \u00a0is and how it is distributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another adware find this morning. This one is called\u00a0Greener Web. You might have noticed Greener Web when starting up Firefox and being asked to install Greener Web, or in Mozilla&#8217;s and Internet Explorer&#8217;s add-on dialog: \u00a0 Many of the\u00a0\u00a0anti-virus programs over at VirusTotal \u00a0detects the Greener Web adware as you can see in the scan\u00a0result &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-greener-web\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greener Web &#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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}