What is 100sOfRecipes Toolbar?
If have 100sOfRecipes Toolbar installed on your computer, then we warn you that this is an unreliable browser extension that you should remove at your earliest convenience. It can be debated that this application is utterly useless. As the program’s name suggests, it has all to do with food recipes. However, all that it has are links to third-party websites. On closer inspection it turn out that its featured search engine has the ability to gather information about your browsing habits and inject third-party ads and promoted links into the search results. We regard 100sOfRecipes Toolbar as undesirable, so if you have installed on your machine, you should remove it.
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What does 100sOfRecipes Toolbar do?
At first glance, 100sOfRecipes Toolbar appears to be every chef’s best browsing companion, but the reality is very different. The toolbar features five bookmarks. The first one is called Recipe Search. There is nothing special about this function as it uses the search provider to find the recipes and just filters out search results not related to food. The second bookmark is a kind of a widget that displays random food recipes, but also has a search function with a limited database. The third one is just a bookmark to a website called Mealplanning.food.com. Some versions vary in their contents but in our case the fourth bookmark was an Internet radio app that is commonly found in 100sOfRecipes Toolbar clones. The fifth bookmark has been dedicated to the all time Mindspark favorite – Facebook. So there you have it, the toolbar’s explicit functionality is nothing more than a collection of links to third party websites.
We cannot be certain, but it is quite possible that at least some of those websites pay its developers to feature their website on a toolbar. In any event, that is not everything 100sOfRecipes Toolbar does. It also features a custom Ask.com search engine. This search engine is unreliable, because its owners inject custom third-party advertisements and promotional links of unknown origin. Furthermore, we know that the search engine collects information about your browsing habits. To be fair this is done by all search engines legitimate and unreliable alike. However, you should not trust information such as your browsing history, search history, approximate geographical location to an unreliable company.
Where does 100sOfRecipes Toolbar come from?
The company that created 100sOfRecipes Toolbar calls itself Mindspark Interactive Network, inc. The company is based in 29 Wells Avenue, New York, USA. Mindspark has a history for releasing unreliable toolbars. Some of its more recent releases include MergeDocsOnline Toolbar, InternetSpeedUtility Toolbar, AudioToAudio Toolbar, and a few others. You could have downloaded this application from 100sofrecipes.com. However, like its counterparts, this toolbar can be found bundled with malicious applications. So it is likely that 100sOfRecipes Toolbar is features on borderline illegitimate freeware websites. So, since this toolbar is compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. We have made a dedicated removal guide.
How do I remove 100sOfRecipes Toolbar?
Now that you know that 100sOfRecipes Toolbar is a mostly useless and unreliable application, we hope that you will take the appropriate next step and remove is from your PC. First, you must uninstall it via the Control Panel, and second, delete it from your browser’s list of add-ons. Lastly, you will have to change your homepage to your preferred website manually; however, this may not always be the case. In any case, if you want to change everything back to how it was, use our removal guide.
How to uninstall 100sOfRecipes Toolbar
Windows 8/8.1
- Open the Charm bar.
- Click Settings and select Control Panel.
- Open Programs and Features.
- Find the application and right-click on it and then click Uninstall.
Windows 7/Vista
- Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program.
- Find the program and right-click on it.
- Click Uninstall.
Windows XP
- Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.
- Open Add or Remove Programs.
- Find the unwanted application.
- Click Remove.
How to remove 100sOfRecipes Toolbar from the browser
Mozilla Firefox
- Tap Ctrl+Shift+A and select Extensions.
- Click Remove the extension.
- Press Alt+T and click Options.
- Change the homepage.
Google Chrome
- Tap Alt+F.
- Open More tools and select Extensions.
- Click Remove the add-on.
- Tap Alt+F again.
- Find the On Startup list and select Set pages.
- Change the homepage and click OK.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Tap Alt+X.
- Choose Manage Add-ons.
- Go to Toolbars and Extensions.
- Remove the unwanted toolbar.
- Click Close.
- Then tap Alt+T and click Internet Options.
- Change the homepage.
- Click OK.
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