What is KnowTheBible Toolbar?
KnowTheBible Toolbar is a browser extension from a big family of potentially unwanted applications. This plug-in is supposed provide you with a lot of Bible trivia. KnowTheBible Toolbar comes with such features as Weekly Prayer, Bible Study, Bible Passages, Daily Verse, Bible Trivia and even a custom Web Search box. Nevertheless, despite the fact that KnowTheBible Toolbar seems to be an entertaining and useful application, computer security experts recommend removing KnowTheBible Toolbar from the system, as it may inadvertently expose you to potentially corrupted content that might even lead to a dangerous malware infection.
Where does KnowTheBible Toolbar come from?
When we know the origins of an application, we can predict its behavior a lot better. The same can be applied to KnowTheBible Toolbar as well. We know exactly where it comes from – it is developed by Mindspark, and there are actually quite a few browser plug-ins from the same family. KnowTheBible Toolbar is directly related to OnlineMapFinder Toolbar, ButterflyField Toolbar, Zwinky Toolbar and many other applications from the same group.
It can be downloaded at bibletriviatime.com, although the application for Google Chrome is also available at Chrome app shop. It is also possible for the plug-in to arrive bundled with other freeware, so you need to be attentive whenever you are about to install an application downloaded from a third party website.
What does KnowTheBible Toolbar do?
Apart from the functions described in the first paragraph, KnowTheBible Toolbar also (obviously) adds an extension to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers. The extension is added to provide user with all the functions mentioned above.
Some users complain that KnowTheBible Toolbar is actually a browser hijacker, because it hijacks their homepage and changes it to home.tb.ask.com. However, that is a bit too far-fetched. KnowTheBible Toolbar does not highjack anything – the changes are solicited by computer users themselves.
During the toolbar installation, users are told that the default installation of KnowTheBible Toolbar also modifies their default homepage and search engine to Ask.com. You can actually choose NOT to have your browser settings changed, but if you skip that installation step or you go through the setup automatically, you may actually end up with some unwanted features installed.
KnowTheBible Toolbar is obviously not a computer infection, because users install it onto their computers willingly. However, it would be in your best interest to remove KnowTheBible Toolbar from the system, because the plug-in may collect your web browsing data for online marketing purposes and in the long run you could be exposed to potentially malicious content.
How to remove KnowTheBible Toolbar?
You can uninstall KnowTheBible Toolbar via Control panel, but afterwards you will need to restore your browser settings manually. We provide instructions for that below. Once you have your browser settings restored, scan the PC with SpyHunter free scanner just to be sure that all the unwanted applications have been removed from the system completely.
How to uninstall KnowTheBible Toolbar
Windows 8
- Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Click Settings on Charm bar and go to Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program and remove KnowTheBible Toolbar.
Windows Vista & Windows 7
- Open Start menu and select Control panel.
- Go to Uninstall a program and remove KnowTheBible Toolbar.
Windows XP
- Open Start menu and click Settings.
- Go to Control panel and select Add or remove programs.
- Uninstall KnowTheBible Toolbar.
Restore your browser settings
Internet Explorer
- Press Alt+T and click Manage add-ons.
- Click Search providers on the left pane.
- Set a new default search engine, remove Ask Search and click Close.
- Press Alt+T again and click Internet options.
- Open General tab and change your homepage address. Click OK.
Mozilla Firefox
- Click the search engine icon the left of Firefox search box.
- Select Manage search engines from drop-down menu.
- Remove Ask Search from the list and click OK.
- Click Firefox button and select Options.
- Open General tab and change your homepage address. Click OK.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+A for Add-ons manager tab to open.
- Disable and remove KnowTheBible from Extensions. Restart browser.
Google Chrome
- Press Alt+F and select Tools.
- Go to Extensions and remove KnowTheBible from the list.
- Click Settings on the left.
- Mark Open a specific page or set of pages under On Startup.
- Change your startup page address and click OK.
- Select Manage search engines under Search.
- Set a new default search engine, delete Ask Search and press Done.
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