Ads by Wooden Seal - How to remove

Wooden Seal is an adware program developed by SuperWeb LLC, which focuses on promoting sponsored websites. Although it claims to enhance your browsing experience and help you to do your shopping more efficiently, the truth is it only wants to redirect computer users to commercial pages and make money. If you don’t want to be a victim of adware creators, you should remove Ads by Wooden Seal as soon as possible.

To learn more about this adware and the consequences of its infiltration, continue reading this article. To remove Ads by Wooden Seal, you should either use an anti-malware program, like Spyhunter or StopZilla and run a full system scan with it or follow the guide below this article and uninstall the program manually.

About Ads by Wooden Seal

The problem about Ads by Wooden Seal is that they include links to the websites they are supposed to promote. The creators of this adware get paid for increasing traffic of certain pages. As you understand, once you click on the ad, you will end up visiting some unknown page. Remember that you can easily get your system infected if the ad redirects you to a compromised website.

What is more, Wooden Seal may track your browsing history and try to learn about your interests so it could generated targeted ads. It can also pass this information to other advertisers and you may be involved into other marketing related projects. To avoid any issues and solve current situation, you must remove Wooden Seal adware from your computer as soon as possible.

Distribution Methods of Wooden Seal

The application usually comes bundled to freeware from the Internet, for example, media players, PDF creators, download managers, etc. These programs do no clearly disclose about Wooden Seal and doesn’t ask you to confirm if you want it to be installed. The only way to avoid such infiltration, is to be more careful with your new downloads, read their Terms and Agreements and look through every installation step before clicking Next button. Make sure you always deselect options with unknown extra applications.

Remove Ads by Wooden Seal without any hesitations if they are already interfering with your browsing. Follow the steps below for quick and simple solution.

Manual removal of Ads by Wooden Seal

How to remove Ads by Wooden Seal using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Ads by Wooden Seal install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Ads by Wooden Seal . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Ads by Wooden Seal easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Ads by Wooden Seal from macOS

Delete Ads by Wooden Seal from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Ads by Wooden Seal app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Ads by Wooden Seal and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ads by Wooden Seal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Ads by Wooden Seal from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Ads by Wooden Seal. Click on the trash bin icon next to Ads by Wooden Seal or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ads by Wooden Seal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Ads by Wooden Seal from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Ads by Wooden Seal related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ads by Wooden Seal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Ads by Wooden Seal from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Ads by Wooden Seal. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Ads by Wooden Seal or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Ads by Wooden Seal from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Ads by Wooden Seal. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ads by Wooden Seal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

Manual removal