Remove Happy Cloud

Happy Cloud is an advertising software, in other words a program whose only goal is to distribute as much ads as possible. However that’s not its only function, as a matter of fact, Happy Cloud can also spy your online moves. It collects data from those moves to sell them afterwards. To sum up, although Happy Cloud is not a virus, it is an unwanted program. All ads coming from Happy Cloud are usually tagged as Ads by Happy Cloud or Happy Cloud Ads. 

As many other adware, Happy Cloud is often quietly offered with some other software you installed on your computer, probably a fake video player found in a streaming website, a fake update for one of your plug-ins or a software downloaded from a platform like sotf32.com, download.com, softonic, etc… Those platforms make money with this actions. Actually they win money with each Happy Cloud‘s successful installation.

The previous picture is a screenshot from Happy Cloud‘s official website; website whose only reason to exist is to publish all the conditions and terms that people who have Happy Cloud in their computers have accepted. Remember that by installing the software you automatically accept these conditions, whether you installed it on purpose or not.

Happy Cloud is already known by several antivirus because it’s actually a new version of the infection called BrowseFox. SuperWeb LLC, the company behind these infections never changes its methods, all it does is change the name of the software and registers a new website where they can share their conditions of  use.

How to remove Happy Cloud ?

Remove Happy Cloud with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a tool that research for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your pc. If you use AdwCleaner you can very easily remove many of these types of programs for a much better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

• Download AdwCleaner (Official link and direct-download) :
  Download AdwCleaner
• Select AdwCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
• Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
• If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
• Reboot your computer.

Remove Happy Cloud with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Happy Cloud.

• Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Happy Cloud.
• When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
• Reboot your computer if prompted.

Reset your browser (if necessary)

If you still see traces of Happy Cloud after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer