How to remove Celeryleek.com redirect [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Do you get Celeryleek.com page randomly while browsing the Internet? If yes, then you should known that most likely an adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software) is active on your PC causing these unwanted Celeryleek.com page to appear. You should remove this adware immediately. Here, in this blog post below, you can found the best possible steps on How to remove Celeryleek.com popup ads from your system for free.

The ad supported software that responsible for internet browser reroute to the undesired Celeryleek.com website, is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional utility. It is created with the sole purpose to display dozens of popups, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open internet browser window. Moreover, the ad-supported software can substitute the legitimate sponsored links on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit malicious sites. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web-sites, so the creators of adware, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the makers of the ‘ad supported’ software receive income.

The ad-supported software often change all web-browser shortcuts that located on your Desktop to force you visit some intrusive ad web-pages. As a result, your web browser can still redirect you to an unwanted ad web site despite your computer is actually clean of adware and other malicious software.

We suggest to delete the adware related to Celeryleek.com pop-up ads, as soon as you found this problem, as it can redirect your web browser to web-resources that may load other malicious software on your machine.

Remove Celeryleek.com popup ads

Most often ad-supported software requires more than a simple uninstall through the use of MS Windows Control panel in order to be fully deleted. For that reason, our team made several removal methods which we’ve summarized in a detailed guidance. Therefore, if you’ve the undesired Celeryleek.com pop up ads on your computer and are currently trying to have it deleted then feel free to follow the step-by-step tutorial below in order to resolve your problem. Read it once, after doing so, please print this page as you may need to close your web-browser or restart your PC system.

To remove Celeryleek.com, follow the steps below:

1. How to manually get rid of Celeryleek.com
   • Delete potentially unwanted apps using Windows Control Panel
   • Fix internet browser shortcuts, changed by ‘ad supported’ software
   • Remove Celeryleek.com redirect from Chrome
   • Remove Celeryleek.com redirect from Mozilla Firefox
   • Delete Celeryleek.com popup advertisements from Microsoft Internet Explorer
   • Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks
2. How to get rid of Celeryleek.com redirect with free applications
   • Delete Celeryleek.com ads with Zemana Anti-malware
   • Scan and clean your computer of adware with HitmanPro
   • Use Malwarebytes to delete Celeryleek.com pop-ups
3. Run AdBlocker to stop Celeryleek.com and stay safe online
4. How can you prevent your machine from the attack of Celeryleek.com advertisements
5. Finish words

How to manually get rid of Celeryleek.com

If you perform exactly the few simple steps below you should be able to delete the Celeryleek.com pop-ups from the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Firefox browsers.

Delete potentially unwanted apps using Windows Control Panel

First, go to Windows Control Panel and uninstall suspicious programs, all applications you do not remember installing. It’s important to pay the most attention to apps you installed just before Celeryleek.com advertisements appeared on your internet browser. If you don’t know what a program does, look for the answer on the Internet.

Make sure you have closed all web-browsers and other apps. Press CTRL, ALT, DEL keys together to open the Microsoft Windows Task Manager.

Click on the “Processes” tab, look for something questionable that is the ad supported software that causes web browsers to display undesired Celeryleek.com pop up ads then right-click it and select “End Task” or “End Process” option. Most often, malware masks itself to avoid detection by imitating legitimate Microsoft Windows processes. A process is particularly suspicious: it is taking up a lot of memory (despite the fact that you closed all of your applications), its name is not familiar to you (if you’re in doubt, you can always check the program by doing a search for its name in Google, Yahoo or Bing).

Next, delete any unknown and suspicious applications from your Control panel.

Windows 10, 8.1, 8

Now, press the Windows button, type “Control panel” in search and press Enter. Select “Programs and Features”, then “Uninstall a program”.

Look around the entire list of applications installed on your computer. Most likely, one of them is the adware that causes web-browsers to show undesired Celeryleek.com pop-ups. Choose the suspicious program or the program that name is not familiar to you and uninstall it.

Windows Vista, 7

From the “Start” menu in MS Windows, choose “Control Panel”. Under the “Programs” icon, choose “Uninstall a program”.

Select the dubious or any unknown software, then click “Uninstall/Change” button to remove this unwanted application from your PC system.

Windows XP

Click the “Start” button, select “Control Panel” option. Click on “Add/Remove Programs”.

Select an undesired application, then click “Change/Remove” button. Follow the prompts.

Fix internet browser shortcuts, changed by ‘ad supported’ software

The adware related to Celeryleek.com popups, can hijack various Windows shortcut files on your desktop (most often, all web-browsers shortcut files), so in this step you need to check and clean them by removing the argument like http://site.address/.

Right click to a desktop shortcut file for your hijacked internet browser. Select the “Properties” option. It’ll open the Properties window. Select the “Shortcut” tab here, after that, look at the “Target” field. The ‘ad supported’ software that responsible for the appearance of Celeryleek.com ads can change it. If you are seeing something similar to “…exe http://site.address” then you need to remove “http…” and leave only, depending on the web-browser you are using:

• Google Chrome: chrome.exe
• Opera: opera.exe
• Firefox: firefox.exe
• Internet Explorer: iexplore.exe

Look at the example as shown in the following example.

Once is finished, click the “OK” button to save the changes. Please repeat this step for web browser shortcuts that reroutes to an annoying web pages. When you have finished, go to next step.

Remove Celeryleek.com redirect from Chrome

Reset Google Chrome settings is a easy way to get rid of the ‘ad supported’ software, harmful and adware extensions, as well as to recover the web-browser’s startpage, new tab and search engine by default that have been modified by adware which cause intrusive Celeryleek.com popups to appear.

Open the Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal dotes (). It will display the drop-down menu. Choose More Tools, then click Extensions.

Carefully browse through the list of installed extensions. If the list has the plugin labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following guidance: Remove Google Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy otherwise, just go to the step below.

Open the Chrome main menu again, click to “Settings” option.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Advanced” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as displayed in the following example and click the “Reset settings to their original defaults” button.

Confirm your action, click the “Reset” button.

Remove Celeryleek.com redirect from Mozilla Firefox

The Firefox reset will keep your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, web form auto-fill data, recover preferences and security settings, get rid of redirections to undesired Celeryleek.com web-page and ad-supported software.

Press the Menu button (looks like three horizontal lines), and click the blue Help icon located at the bottom of the drop down menu like below.

A small menu will appear, press the “Troubleshooting Information”. On this page, click “Refresh Firefox” button like below.

Follow the onscreen procedure to return your Firefox web-browser settings to its original state.

Delete Celeryleek.com popup advertisements from Microsoft Internet Explorer

In order to restore all web-browser newtab, home page and search provider by default you need to reset the IE to the state, which was when the Microsoft Windows was installed on your computer.

First, run the Microsoft Internet Explorer, click ) button. Next, press “Internet Options” as on the image below.

In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, click Reset button. The Microsoft Internet Explorer will open the Reset Internet Explorer settings dialog box. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and click Reset button.

You will now need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. It will remove ad supported software that causes multiple unwanted pop up ads, disable malicious and ad-supported browser’s extensions and restore the Internet Explorer’s settings like default search provider, newtab page and home page to default state.

Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the adware can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you start your personal computer, it will display Celeryleek.com undesired web-page. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all harmful tasks which have been created by adware.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard simultaneously. It will show a dialog box which titled with Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and press OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, press “Task Scheduler Library”, as displayed below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be show just below automatically. Next, press the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need remove this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it’s a component of the adware, then this task also should be removed.

Further press on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as displayed in the following example.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ apps. Once is finished, close the Task Scheduler window.

How to get rid of Celeryleek.com redirect with free applications

It is not enough to get rid of Celeryleek.com ads from your web-browser by following the manual steps above to solve all problems. Some the adware related files may remain on your computer and they will restore the ‘ad supported’ software even after you get rid of it. For that reason we suggest to use free antimalware tool such as Zemana Anti Malware, MalwareBytes Anti-Malware and Hitman Pro. Either of those programs should be able to scan for and remove ad-supported software that causes a large amount of intrusive Celeryleek.com pop up ads.

Delete Celeryleek.com ads with Zemana Anti-malware

We suggest you to run the Zemana Anti-malware that are completely clean your personal computer of adware that cause intrusive Celeryleek.com pop-ups to appear. Moreover, the utility will allow you to get rid of PUPs, malicious software, toolbars and browser hijackers that your PC can be infected too.

Visit the page linked below to download the latest version of Zemana for Microsoft Windows. Save it directly to your Windows Desktop.

When the downloading process is finished, close all applications and windows on your computer. Double-click the install file called Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up as displayed in the figure below, click the “Yes” button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Zemana Free on your system. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is complete successfully, Zemana Free will automatically start and you can see its main screen as displayed in the figure below.

Now click the “Scan” button to perform a system scan with this tool for the adware that causes unwanted Celeryleek.com pop up ads. This process can take quite a while, so please be patient. When a threat is found, the number of the security threats will change accordingly. Wait until the the checking is finished.

After the scan is done, Zemana will open a list of found items. Next, you need to click “Next” button. The Zemana Free will remove adware that causes a lot of undesired Celeryleek.com popups and add threats to the Quarantine. When finished, you may be prompted to reboot the system.

Scan and clean your computer of adware with HitmanPro

Hitman Pro is a free removal utility that can be downloaded and use to remove ad supported software that causes multiple undesired pop-up ads, hijackers, malware, PUPs, toolbars and other threats from your system. You can run this utility to find threats even if you have an antivirus or any other security program.

Download Hitman Pro from the link below.

After the download is finished, open the folder in which you saved it and double-click the HitmanPro icon. It will run the Hitman Pro tool. If the User Account Control dialog box will ask you want to launch the program, press Yes button to continue.

Next, click “Next” for checking your PC for the ‘ad supported’ software responsible for redirecting your web-browser to Celeryleek.com web-page. While the Hitman Pro utility is scanning, you can see how many objects it has identified as being infected by malicious software.

Once the scanning is complete, you will be opened the list of all detected items on your computer as displayed in the figure below.

All found items will be marked. You can delete them all by simply click “Next” button. It will display a prompt, click the “Activate free license” button. The Hitman Pro will delete adware which cause undesired Celeryleek.com pop-up advertisements to appear and add threats to the Quarantine. When that process is done, the utility may ask you to restart your PC.

Use Malwarebytes to delete Celeryleek.com pop-ups

Get rid of Celeryleek.com pop up advertisements manually is difficult and often the adware is not completely removed. Therefore, we advise you to run the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your PC system. Moreover, the free application will help you to remove malicious software, potentially unwanted apps, toolbars and hijackers that your machine can be infected too.

1. Installing the MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is simple. First you will need to download MalwareBytes Anti Malware (MBAM) by clicking on the following link. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.
   
   

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2. When downloading is done, close all applications and windows on your system. Open a file location. Double-click on the icon that’s named mb3-setup.
3. Further, click Next button and follow the prompts.
4. Once installation is done, click the “Scan Now” button to find adware related to Celeryleek.com popup ads. When a threat is detected, the number of the security threats will change accordingly.
5. After the scan get finished, the results are displayed in the scan report. Review the results once the utility has done the system scan. If you think an entry should not be quarantined, then uncheck it. Otherwise, simply press “Quarantine Selected”. After the cleaning procedure is finished, you may be prompted to restart your machine.

The following video offers a step by step guide on how to remove hijackers, ad supported software and other malicious software with MalwareBytes.

Run AdBlocker to stop Celeryleek.com and stay safe online

To put it simply, you need to use an ad-blocking tool (AdGuard, for example). It will stop and protect you from all unwanted pages such as Celeryleek.com, ads and popups. To be able to do that, the ad-blocker program uses a list of filters. Each filter is a rule that describes a malicious web-site, an advertising content, a banner and others. The adblocker application automatically uses these filters, depending on the webpages you are visiting.

Visit the following page to download the latest version of AdGuard for Windows. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.

When the downloading process is done, double-click the downloaded file to start it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen as displayed on the screen below.

Follow the prompts. AdGuard will then be installed and an icon will be placed on your desktop. A window will show up asking you to confirm that you want to see a quick tutorial like below.

Press “Skip” button to close the window and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick guide that will allow you get to know AdGuard better.

Each time, when you launch your computer, AdGuard will start automatically and block ads, pages like Celeryleek.com, as well as other malicious or misleading websites. 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 can be found on your desktop.

How can you prevent your machine from the attack of Celeryleek.com advertisements

Most of annoying popups like Celeryleek.com ads come from internet browser toolbars, internet browser extensions, BHOs (browser helper objects) and third-party apps. In most cases, these items claim itself as applications which improve your experience on the Internet by providing a fast and interactive start page or a search engine that does not track you. Remember, how to avoid the unwanted apps. Be cautious, start only reputable software which download from reputable sources. NEVER install any unknown and suspicious software.

Finish words

Now your personal computer should be free of the ‘ad supported’ software that responsible for browser reroute to the intrusive Celeryleek.com website. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted pop up advertisements and undesired malicious web-pages) and Zemana (to periodically scan your computer for new adwares and other malware). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.

If you are still having problems while trying to remove Celeryleek.com popups from the Google Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.