What is Delete Facebook Messages?
Delete Facebook Messages seems to be designed for Google Chrome users who have Facebook accounts. It offers a feature that is supposed to help users delete Facebook messages they no longer wish to keep, which seems a bit odd considering the social media platform and its messaging application already have such features. Moreover, besides the mentioned deletion tool for messages, the extension might change a user’s new tab page. The add-on ought to switch a user’s new tab page with a search tool of its own that we talk about further in the article. If you want to know more about this application that is considered to be a potentially unwanted program, we invite you to read the rest of this article. In case you decide to remove Delete Facebook Messages, you may want to check the instructions available below too.
Where does Delete Facebook Messages come from?
Delete Facebook Messages is advertised on a site called dfbmsgs.com/ext/dfbmsgs, and it is currently still available on Chrome Web Store page. Nonetheless, it might be that the potentially unwanted program is spread through other channels too. For example, users could be redirected to its download page after interacting with suspicious pop-up advertisements. Also, like many other potentially unwanted programs, it could be traveling with bundled setup files offered on unreliable file-sharing websites. We recommend against downloading installers from torrent sites or web pages that distribute pirated software since such sources could contain browser hijackers, potentially unwanted programs, adware, or even malicious applications. Naturally, the safest way to obtain a desired program is to go to its official site. Of course, even doubtful tools have official websites, so one should also make sure that reputable developers created their chosen tool.
How does Delete Facebook Messages work?
The applications descriptions say that Delete Facebook Messages “allows you to delete or archive your facebook messages directly from your browser action button.” You should know that you can easily erase entire conversations through Facebook or Messenger. In other words, the process is not that complicated or time consuming that a user would need to install a separate tool for it. In any case, helping you get rid of unwanted Facebook messages is not the only thing the potentially unwanted program does.
After it settles in, Delete Facebook Messages might make your browser load dfbmsgs.com/search every time you create a new tab. In other words, an affected browser might change your new tab page with its search website. According to our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.com, it redirected them to Bing.com, which means dfbmsgs.com/search might be unable to find or provide search results itself since it depends on the Bing search engine. Search engines of such potentially unwanted programs often show modified search results that can include unknown third-party advertising, but, in this case, it looks like the gathered results are not altered in any way. However, Delete Facebook Messages requires a lot of permissions, such as “Read and change your browsing history” or “Communicate with cooperating websites.”
If you find it suspicious and do not want to take any chances, it might be best to use the original Bing.com or any other reputable search engine of your choice.
How to erase Delete Facebook Messages?
One of the ways to remove Delete Facebook Messages is to go to your Google Chrome’s extensions menu and erase it from there. If you do not know how to do this, you could follow the instructions placed below. Another way to deal with this potentially unwanted program is to employ a legitimate antimalware tool and let it get rid of the unwanted extension for you.
Eliminate Delete Facebook Messages
- Go to Google Chrome.
- Insert the following link into the browser’s address bar: chrome://extensions
- Press Enter and search Delete Facebook Messages.
- Click Remove and close Extensions menu.
- Restart your browser.
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