FamilyGurus Removal Guide

If you are looking for practical advice regarding your family, we advise you to avoid FamilyGurus. This desktop application is a new clone of Flexible Family, which is another useless adware program. These two applications are exactly the same since even their theme is identical. The other ad-supported programs coming from the same creators at least have different cover stories, i.e., themes, including SurveyMeta and LeadingVideos. This clearly shows that the creators want easy money from as many sources as they can come up with. Obviously, their goal is not to provide you with any useful function, information or knowledge, but, instead, to expose you to potentially unreliable promoted websites and third-party ads, which can be the source of revenue when engaged with or clicked on by users. Another rather suspicious trait this adware shows is that it may enter your computer along with several other malware threats. If you want to end this invasion, you need to act now. We advise you to remove FamilyGurus ASAP together with all other potentially harmful applications. This is the only way to restore order in your virtual world. For the details, please carry on reading.

Just like all the other adware programs in this family, this one has a promotional page as well (familygurus.com) that gets flagged by any decent up-to-date security tool as an HTML/ScrInject.B Trojan is detected. This is very bad news for those whose PC is not protected because they may download the official installer of this useless application. Unfortunately, this installer contains a bunch of other malicious software installers, including Search Know, Sweet-page.com, and MyPcBackUp. We know these infections quite well, and we can tell you that these are mainly adware programs, browser hijackers, and potentially unwanted programs as well. So when you install this official program, you will be all the “richer” with several malware threats at the same time. But we do not think that most users get infected with this adware this way.

There are a couple of distribution methods that can deliver this infection to your system. Probably the most common way is through third-party advertising. This means that you may click on pop-up ads with download offers and you end up with this adware on your computer. These ads can come from two sources. First, they can be generated by adware programs that are hiding on your computer. Second, they can be displayed when you visit unsafe websites that host third-party ads. Another possibility is that your PC is infected with a browser hijacker that exposes you to an unreliable search engine. If you run a web search through this engine, you may be redirected to a manipulated results page where you click on corrupted links or ads and, again, download this adware.

Yet another possibility is that you let this application on board in a freeware bundle that contains other infections as well. This can happen when you land on unfamiliar questionable file-sharing websites and click on third-party ads there. We believe that it has to be quite clear now that you need to stay away from websites like suspicious torrent, dating, and shareware pages. Also, you should not click on any advertisement to stay on the safe side. However, if this adware has found a way to your computer, we recommend that you run a trustworthy online malware scanner after you delete FamilyGurus.

When you run this program, it does two things. First, it opens in a desktop window and loads familygurus.com/redir.php, which instantly redirects to bestfamilyadvice.com website. Second, it opens an Internet Explorer window with various offers, such as freebiesfrenzy.com/lp-d4m. We have found that this application is totally useless since you cannot acutally browse this site. We are also not really convinced that the promoted website is the “best” family advisor. All in all, this adware may expose you to potentially unreliable web content and advertisements, not to mention that even its own official website contains potentially harmful third-party ads. Clicking on these may take you to malicious websites where you may fall prey to cyber criminals. In your best interest, we suggest that you remove FamilyGurus from your computer right now.

We hope that by now it has become clear why we believe that your computer would be a safer place without this application. If you are ready to act, we are here to help you with the next step. In order to eliminate this adware, all you have to do is locate its uninstaller in Control Panel and launch it. If you are not familiar with the necessary steps of uninstalling a program, please use our guide below as a reference. Even if you are not an expert computer user, you should be able to accomplish this within one single minute. Since your PC may be a home to several other malware infections, we recommend that you take care of them all at the same time. If you do not wish to manually detect and remove them one by one, we suggest that you download and install a reliable anti-malware application to take over the protection of your virtual world.

Remove FamilyGurus from Windows

Windows XP

1. Click Start and choose Control Panel.
2. Pick Add or Remove Programs.
3. Select the application and click Remove.

Windows Vista/Windows 7

1. Access the Start menu and go to Control Panel.
2. Choose Uninstall a program.
3. Select the application and click Uninstall.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10

1. Press Win+Q and type in Uninstall a program. Hit Enter.
2. Select the application and click Uninstall.