Are you run your favorite web-browser and do not see usual startpage, which is set earlier? Or, the smumi.club asking to install an unknown browser’s extension is the first thing that pop up once you open your web browser? It means that your system has become the victim of malware from the group of adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software). If you get it on your personal computer, this adware can change the internet browser’s settings such as startpage, new tab page and default search engine and install malicious extension that will open lots of unwanted pop-up ads within the Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge screen. It is important, do not click on these ads, as they can lead you to more malicious or misleading web pages. The best option is to use the steps posted below to free your computer and thereby remove smumi.club redirect.
The ad-supported software usually affects only the Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge by changing the internet browser’s settings or installing a malicious extensions (addons). Moreover, possible situations, when any other web-browsers will be affected too. The adware will perform a scan of the PC for web-browser shortcuts and modify them without your permission. When it infects the browser shortcuts, it will add the argument such as ‘http://site.address’ into Target property. So, each time you run the browser, you will see an unwanted smumi.club web-site.
The adware is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional tool. It is created with the sole purpose to open dozens of ads, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open browser window. So, the smumi.club is just one of the many web-pages of the so-called ‘ad-support’ type. It’s designed to fill the internet browser’s constant stream of ads, or redirect the web browser to not expected and intrusive advertising pages. Moreover, the adware can substitute the legitimate advertising links on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit malicious web-sites. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web-sites, so the creators of ad-supported software, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the authors of the adware receive income. It is the so-called ‘Pay-Per-Click’ method.
Instructions, which is shown below, will allow you to clean your personal computer from the adware as well as get rid of smumi.club unwanted popup ads from the Chrome, Firefox, IE and MS Edge and other web browsers.
How does smumi.club pop-ups get installed onto computer
The ‘ad-supported’ software usually come bundled with free applications that downloaded from the Internet. Which means that you need to be proactive and carefully read the Terms of use and the License agreement properly. For the most part, the ‘ad-supported’ software will be clearly described, so take the time to carefully read all the information about the program that you download off the Internet and want to install on your computer. In the Setup wizard, you should select the Advanced, Custom or Manual installation mode to control what components and additional software to be installed, otherwise you run the risk of infecting your PC with an infection like the ‘ad-supported’ software that generates lots of smumi.club advertisements.
How to manually remove smumi.club ads
This useful removal guide for the smumi.club ads. The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to delete smumi.club redirect let us know how you managed by sending us your comments please.
- Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
- Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove smumi.club redirect
- Remove smumi.club pop-up ads from Chrome
- Remove smumi.club advertisements from Mozilla Firefox
- Delete smumi.club pop-up ads from Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
First, you should try to identify and uninstall the application that causes the appearance of annoying ads and web-browser redirect to unwanted web pages, using the ‘Uninstall a program’ which is located in the ‘Control panel’.
Windows 8, 8.1, 10
, then click Search 
. Type ‘Control panel’and press Enter as shown on the image below. 
When the ‘Control Panel’ opens, click the ‘Uninstall a program’ under Programs category as shown in the figure below. 
You will see the ‘Uninstall a program’ panel like below. 
Very carefully look around the entire list of installed applications. Most likely, one or more of them are responsible for the internet browser redirect to unwanted smumi.club advertisements. If you have many programs installed, you can help simplify the search of malicious software by sort the list by date of installation. Once you have found a suspicious, unwanted or unused application, right click to it and press ‘Uninstall’.
Windows XP, Vista, 7
When the Windows ‘Control Panel’ opens, you need to click ‘Uninstall a program’ under ‘Programs’ as shown in the following image. 
You will see a list of software installed on your machine. We recommend to sort the list by date of installation to quickly find the software that were installed last. Most likely they responsibility for the appearance of unwanted advertisements and browser redirect. If you are in doubt, you can always check the application by doing a search for her name in Google, Yahoo or Bing. When the program, you need to uninstall, is found, simply press on its name, and then click ‘Uninstall’ like below. 
Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove smumi.club redirect
When installed, the adware may add an argument similar “http://site.address” into the Target property of the desktop shortcut for the Chrome, IE, Mozilla Firefox and Edge. Due to this, every time you launch the web-browser, it will show the smumi.club unwanted site.
Right click on the browser’s shortcut, click Properties option. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text that begins with “http://”. Remove it or everything after .exe. An example, for Google Chrome you should remove everything after chrome.exe.
Next, press OK to save changes. You need to clean all internet browser’s shortcuts. So, repeat this step for the Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and MS Edge.
Remove smumi.club pop-up ads from Chrome
Reset Google Chrome settings is a simple way to remove the malware and ad supported software, as well as to restore the web-browser’s settings that have been modified by adware.
- Now start the Chrome and click Menu button (small button in the form of three horizontal stripes).
- It will display the Google Chrome main menu. Select “Settings” option.
- You will see the Chrome’s settings page. Scroll down and click “Show advanced settings” link.
- Scroll down again and click the “Reset settings” button.
- The Chrome will display the reset profile settings page as on the image above.
- Next, click the “Reset” button.
- Once this process is done, your internet browser’s settings will be restored to their original defaults. This will reset your start page and search provider by default.
- To learn more, read the post How to reset Chrome settings to default.
Remove smumi.club advertisements from Mozilla Firefox
If the FF settings have been modified by the ad supported software, then resetting it to the default state can help you to remove the redirect onto smumi.club site.
First, run the FF and press 
button. It will display the drop-down menu on the right-part of the internet browser. Next, press the Help button (
) like below.
In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the internet browser address bar and press Enter. It will open the “Troubleshooting Information” page as shown in the following image. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the “Refresh Firefox” button.
It will display the confirmation prompt, press the “Refresh Firefox” button. The Firefox will start a procedure to fix your problems that caused by the ad-supported software. Once it is complete, click the “Finish” button
Delete smumi.club pop-up ads from Microsoft Internet Explorer
To delete the smumi.club advertisements you need to reset the Microsoft Internet Explorer to the state, which was when the Windows was installed on your system.
First, launch the Internet Explorer, then click ‘gear’ icon 
. It will show the drop-down menu on the right part of the internet browser, then press the “Internet Options” as shown on the screen below.
In the “Internet Options” screen, you need to select the “Advanced” tab and press the “Reset” button. The Internet Explorer will display the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” dialog box as shown on the screen below. Next, click the “Delete personal settings” check box to select it. After that, press the “Reset” button.
When the task is finished, click “Close” button. Close the Internet Explorer and reboot your PC for the changes to take effect. This step will help you to restore your browser’s settings to default state and disable ‘ad-supported’ extensions.
Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
If the unwanted smumi.club web site opens automatically on Windows startup or at equal time intervals, then you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and delete all the tasks that have been created by malicios program.
Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard at the same time. This displays a prompt that titled as Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and press OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, like below.
Task scheduler
In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be display just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your system. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address”, then you need remove it. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it is a component of the adware, then this task also should be removed.
Having defined the task that you want to get rid of, then click on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown below.
Delete a task
Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by adware. Once is done, close the Task Scheduler window.
How to remove smumi.club with free malware removal application
Manual removal smumi.club pop-up ads requires some computer skills. Some files and registry entries that created by the ad supported software may be not completely removed. We suggest that use the Malwarebytes Free which are completely clean your PC. Moreover, the free software will help you to get rid of malware, browser hijackers and toolbars that your computer may be infected too.
- Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop by clicking on the following link.
Malwarebytes Anti-malware
326468 downloads
Author: Malwarebytes
Category: Security tools
Update: April 15, 2020
- At the download page, press the Download button. Your web browser will open the “Save as” prompt. Please save it onto your desktop.
- Once the download process is done, please close all software and open windows on your personal computer. Double-click on the icon that’s named mb3-setup.
- This will launch the Setup wizard of Malwarebytes onto your computer. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.
- Once the Setup wizard has complete installing, the malware remover will start and show the main window.
- Further, click the “Scan Now” button . This will begin scanning the whole system to find out adware which redirects your web-browser to the smumi.club annoying web page. This task can take quite a while, so please be patient.
- When it has finished scanning, it will open a screen which contains a list of malicious programs that has been found.
- When you are ready, press on “Quarantine Selected” button to begin cleaning your computer. Once the process is finished, you may be prompted to reboot your PC system.
- Close the Anti-Malware and continue with the next step.
Video instruction, which reveals in detail the steps above.
Block smumi.club and other unwanted pages
To increase your security and protect your PC system against new unwanted ads and malicious sites, you need to use program that blocks access to dangerous advertisements and pages. Moreover, the program can block the open of intrusive advertising, that also leads to faster loading of pages and reduce the consumption of web traffic.
Download AdGuard program from the following link.
26660 downloads
Version: 6.4
Author: © Adguard
Category: Security tools
Update: November 15, 2018
Once downloading is finished, launch the file named adguardInstaller. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen as shown below.
Follow the prompts. Once the installation is done, you will see a window as shown in the figure below.
You can click “Skip” to close the setup application and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial which will allow you get to know AdGuard better.
In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you run your machine, AdGuard will run automatically and block popup ads, web-pages such as smumi.club, as well as other dangerous or misleading web-sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, which is located on your Windows desktop.
Remove smumi.club pop-up ads and malicious extensions with AdwCleaner.
If MalwareBytes cannot delete the annoying smumi.club ads from the Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, then we suggests to use the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal tool for adware, browser hijackers, PUPs and toolbars.
Download AdwCleaner by clicking on the link below.
225301 downloads
Version: 8.4.1
Author: Xplode, MalwareBytes
Category: Security tools
Update: October 5, 2024
Once downloading is done, open the directory in which you saved it. Double click the AdwCleaner icon. Once this utility is started, you will see a screen such as below.
Now, click the “Scan” button to begin checking your PC for the malicious extensions and adware that opens advertisements from smumi.club web-site. Once the scan is finished, it will display a scan report as shown below.
Review the report and then click “Clean” button. It will open a prompt. Click “OK”. Once the cleaning process is finished, AdwCleaner may ask you to reboot your computer.
Look at the following video, which completely explains the procedure of using the AdwCleaner to get rid of ad-supported software, browser hijackers and other dangerous software.
Finish words
Once you have done the few simple steps shown above, your personal computer should be clean from malware and ad-supported software. The Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Microsoft Edge will no longer open smumi.club annoying advertisements and redirect you to unknown web pages. Unfortunately, if the guide does not help you, then you have caught a new type of ad supported software, and then the best way – ask for help.
- Download HijackThis by clicking on the link below and save it to your Desktop.
HijackThis download
4712 downloads
Version: 2.0.5
Author: OpenSource
Category: Security tools
Update: November 7, 2015
- Double-click on the HijackThis icon. Next click “Do a system scan only” button.
- When it has finished scanning your machine, the scan button will read “Save log”, click it. Save this log to your desktop.
- Create a Myantispyware account here. Once you’ve registered, check your e-mail for a confirmation link, and confirm your account. After that, login.
- Copy and paste the contents of the HijackThis log into your post. If you are posting for the first time, please start a new thread by using the “New Topic” button in the Spyware Removal forum. When posting your HJT log, try to give us some details about your problems, so we can try to help you more accurately.
- Wait for one of our trained “Security Team” or Site Administrator to provide you with knowledgeable assistance tailored to your problem with the unwanted smumi.club ads.
