How to remove Smartklick pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Smartklick pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you visited or opening your web browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking the Smartklick advertisement can cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Smartklick popups clearing in multiple manners, and also checking your personal computer for other malware presence.

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What are Smartklick pop-ups?

Smartklick popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a large volume of revenue for adware distributors. These ads may contain explicit content, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Smartklick push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-cost and also extremely efficient marketing tool¹. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing tool is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising departments of big internet retailers.

However, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malicious manipulations with the popup promotions. And Smartklick.biz promotions is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the Smartklick

How have I got the Smartklick virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting infected by the adware that result in the Smartklick popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is presented as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users oftentimes utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are unsafe, due to the fact that it is quite easy to include a Smartklick malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Smartklick popup malware may likewise be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual site. Such sites are in most cases full of bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually approve any kind of promotions to be published on their web page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise get something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable programs, like Smartklick popup virus can initiate a variety of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can present you the promotions, where you are offered to download another dubious application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also chosen as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Smartklick pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Smartklick adware clearing includes 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and then deal with the consequences of its action. The elimination task is really simple, because it can be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its significant resources utilization, as well as some errors that may be critical for some categories of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses can turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely eliminate the viruses from your personal computer and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s handle Smartklick adware initially.

Removing Smartklick popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Smartklick malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your web browser will connect the correct DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content³:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Nonetheless, there is one problem that makes things much harder to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Smartklick pop-up ads are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, till you attempt to open settings once again.

Reset your browser settings with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

How to Remove Smartklick Pop-ups?

Name: Smartklick

Description: Smartklick - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Smartklick.biz push notifications?” or “why do Smartklick.biz pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Smartklick pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.