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Citysearch Toolbar

Citysearch Toolbar

Citysearch Toolbar has been created by Mindspark toolbar and it is targeted at those computer users who love to go out and explore different opportunities a city life has to offer. The toolbar provides such buttons as Restaurants, Bars and Clubs, Spa and Beauty, Hotels, Shopping or Guides, and these buttons provide links to different citysearch.com pages which are meant to help you find useful information. If you are interested in exploring New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and other cities in the US, it is likely that you will be interested in the program. Even though the application can be installed onto Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers at the same time, Google Chrome users are required to install this toolbar individually. All this aside, some computer users choose to remove Citysearch Toolbar because they believe that the extension is actually a browser hijacker which can modify home page and default search provider settings without any permission. Read more »

QuiBids Ads

QuiBids Ads

QuiBids Ads are commercial advertisements that may appear on your browser’s window for various reasons. These ads are not malicious and they do not intend to infect you with malware, but at the same time one cannot be sure that QuiBids Ads displays reliable content only. For the most part, QuiBids Ads functions as a medium for third party content promotion, and if a malevolent third party decides to exploit the ads, you could be redirected to suspicious and corrupted websites. To remove QuiBids Ads you may need to remove an adware application from your computer or simply close the website you are on. Read more »

Gameo Ads

Gameo Ads

Gameo Ads might keep appearing on your screen if you have Gameo application on your system. This program claims to be able to allow users play various free games and they do not even need to launch the application because all the games are accessible on a browser. Even though this program sounds to be very useful, you should be still careful with it; it is especially true if you have not downloaded Gameo application from its official website gameoapp.com. You should definitely not keep any programs downloaded from unreliable sources because they might cause harm and act unacceptably. Thus, if you remember downloading this program from suspicious sources or if you do not know how it has entered your system, you should remove Gameo without any further considerations. Read more »

CelebSauce toolbar

CelebSauce toolbar

CelebSauce is a browser toolbar developed by Mindspark Interactive Network. The CelebSauce toolbar is available at celebsauce.com and is compatible with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The application is powered by the Ask search, which, in addition to search results, generates sponsored links. You should be very attentive when installing free browser add-ons because you are likely to be requested to change the settings of your browsers. In the case of the CelebSauce toolbar, you will be asked to change the home page and the default search provider of your Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. In the case of the CelebSauce toolbar, you are asked to change the home page and the search provider to home.tb.ask.com. If you have installed the CelebSauce toolbar by mistake and want to remove it, jump to the last section to find out how to get rid of the unwanted toolbar. Read more »

Zammillo ads

Zammillo ads

The suspicious Zammillo ads may offer you alluring offers, prize giveaways, money saving deals and discounted services. All of this sounds wonderful; however, the application is not considered to be beneficial. In fact, virtual security experts advice that Zammillo ads removal is something that you should consider if the suspicious program is running on the browsers and enabling the avalanche of online advertisements. Anti-Spyware-101.com malware researchers identify that the same activity is also linked to BrowseBurst, Norpalla, TasticSurf, and tens of other SuperWeb LLC (the developer) apps which all work in the same manner. If you have discovered these applications running on the operating system, you may want to delete them as well. Read more »

BrowseBurst

BrowseBurst

You may think that BrowseBurst is an authentic and even beneficial tool if you trust the information provided on browseburst.com. This website does not support an active download link, and so it is likely that the extension was installed to you together with other software. As a matter of fact, our malware researchers here at Anti-Spyware-101.com indicate that the suspicious application always comes bundled with other installers, including Soft32 Downloader. If you have discovered that this extension was installed onto the computer illegally, you should remove BrowseBurst. Note that you may have accepted the installation of this undesirable plugin accidentally. Nonetheless, even if you have downloaded the program yourself, you still should think about getting it deleted. Read more »

Shopop

Shopop

You may be surprised to discover Shopop running on your Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers. Even though the application is not considered to be a highly intrusive one and it cannot enter the operating system without your consent, it certainly could be installed alongside other programs. Note that even reliable software distributors may package the applications of your choice with various extensions and programs. Of course, you may want to remove Shopop regardless of the distributor and other additionally installed applications, if this is not a program you have chosen to run. Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers have discovered that the plugin might be presented as an optional program; however, if you are certain that it was installed without your consent – you should have no more hesitations about its removal. Read more »

Secury Surf Toolbar

Secury Surf Toolbar

At first it may seem that Secury Surf Toolbar is related to a browser hijacker, because when you install it, your default homepage and search engine are changed to Secury-Surf.com.  The truth, however, is that Secury Surf Toolbar is a browser add-on that is installed onto a computer willingly. The problem is that users seldom bother to read the terms and agreements when they install new software onto their PCs, so more often than not they get surprised to see unwanted behavior even if they agreed to it. Hence, in case you had no intention of accommodating this application on your PC, you should remove Secury Surf Toolbar and restore your browser settings to default. Read more »

Lrcnta.exe

When you install new software application on your computer, that application usually has more than just one file. Lrcnta.exe is an executable file and a process that belongs to Linkury Smart Bar family of potentially unwanted applications. You may not run or install Lrcnta.exe onto your computer directly, but if you notice Lrcnta.exe running on your computer, it means that you have Linkury Smart Bar installed on your computer. Therefore, to remove Lrcnta.exe and other related files, you need to get rid of the application itself. If you are not sure which app is supposed to be terminated, scan the system with SpyHunter free scanner. Read more »

Advanced Disk Recovery Software

Advanced Disk Recovery Software

Advanced Disk Recovery is a data recovery tool for Windows operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. The application is developed by Systweak and available at systweak.com. Advanced Disk Recovery may also be bundled with other application, including those that are developed by Systweak. One of the programs that may offer you Advanced Disk Recovery is System Speedup, which is the product of Systweak. Due to the fact that the recovery tool is distributed by various installers, we categorize it as a potentially unwanted program (PUP), and, if you have installed the application by mistake, jump to the instructions provided below to learn how to remove it from the PC. Read more »