AppGraffiti

Posted by Sarah Stewart on June 27, 2014

What is AppGraffiti?

AppGraffiti is a potentially unwanted program that users often install on their computers willingly. At first sight, it seems like a useful application that can help you customize your Facebook background. However, users often complain that AppGraffiti displays commercial advertisements without permission, but freeware apps often do that to support themselves. Unfortunately, through these ads users get exposed to potentially corrupted content that might lead to serious computer security problems. Therefore, it is necessary to remove AppGraffiti in order to avoid further computer security complications. test test

Where does AppGraffiti come from?

Since it is not a computer infection, you can easily download AppGraffiti at appgraffiti.com. Although general users seldom download potentially unwanted programs directly, that does not seem to be the case with AppGraffiti. On the other hand, security reports claim that this program might also be bundled with freeware, so you have to be careful each time you download and install a new application from a third-party source.

In fact, no matter what kind of program you install, you have to check all the installation steps carefully because you might accidentally miss an important part of the information. Either way, if AppGraffiti managed to enter your system, there is no need to panic, because manual removal is not complicated.

What does AppGraffiti do?

When you install AppGraffiti on your computer, this application adds extensions to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers. Sometimes Google Chrome remains unaffected, but an extension for this browser exists as well. With a new extension added, AppGraffiti can provide you with a list of custom background for your Facebook page.

Based on the information at the official website, this extension is supposed to work on Twitter as well, but during our test we could not add any new background to Twitter. What is more, even if you download AppGraffiti at the official website, this application will come with a number of additional software, including Crawler Toolbar, 24x7 Help and so on. These applications are select by default during the installation, and unless you opt out, they will be installed on the PC.

AppGraffiti also displays various commercial advertisements that impede Facebook, Twitter and other websites’ browsing process. Some users even say that with the extension installed, their graphic interface on Facebook gets changed without their permission! Whether it is true or not, the bottom line is that if you did not intend to have this application on your PC, you ought to remove AppGraffiti right now.

How to remove AppGraffiti?

For manual AppGraffiti removal, open Control Panel and uninstall it from the list of installed programs. The extension should disappear from your browser automatically. In case you have installed AppGraffiti along with other unwanted programs, run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner to determine what other potentially dangerous programs are on board, and then delete them all with an automated malware removal tool.