Facemoods

Posted by Max Lehmann on November 16, 2012

What is Facemoods?

Facemoods toolbar is a browser extension that allows users to instantly add emoticons to their email messages or Facebook chats. Officially it is a useful program that enhances user's social activities on the Internet. However, there is a catch to it. Facemoods toolbar also functions as a browser hijacker and can be exceptionally annoying to some users. Although it is not a highly malicious program in the literal sense of the word, Facemoods Virus could be responsible for allowing other dangerous applications to enter your computer. It is especially relevant when Facemoods toolbar comes together with freeware tools, screensavers or Windows themes. It might get installed automatically if the user goes through the software installation negligently.

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What does Facemoods Virus do?

When Facemoods gets installed, the toolbar is added to all major browsers - Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The homepage settings are modified immediately to Facemoods.com, and the default searchbar is changed to Facemoods Search. Facemoods toolbar also displays a low of pop-up advertisements that might interfere with your browsing. These advertisements offer you various emoticons to add to your mail messages, however, clicking on these ads can lead you to a third-party affiliated websites that might be infected with malware. On top of that, during the Facemoods toolbar installation the user (unwittingly) agrees that his CPU and bandwidth will be used by the toolbar to connect to the Internet. Facemoods Virus also stores information on the browsers used, operating system, IP address and the language. It would be for the best to Remove Facemoods from your system, because it is a potentially unwanted program that might lead to serious computer infection.

How to remove Facemoods toolbar?

We highly recommend removing Facemoods Virus with SpyHunter, because this computer security tool detects Facemoods toolbar and categorizes it as a potentially unwanted program. Facemoods toolbar will be removed from your system automatically and all of your default browser settings will be restored. However it is always possible to terminate Facemoods Virus manually.

Uninstalling Facemoods Toolbar

Windows Vista & Windows 7

1. Start Menu --> Control Panel --> Uninstall a Program
2. Highlight Facemoods Toolbar on the program list.
3. Click Uninstall at the top of the window.
4. Restart your computer.

Windows XP:

1. Start Menu --> Conttrol Panel --> Add/Remove Programs
2. Highlight Facemoods Toolbar on the list.
3. Click Remove button.
4. Restart your computer.

Removing Facemoods toolbar from your browsers

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt and the menu bar will appear.
2. Go to Tools --> Manage Add-ons --> Toolbars and Extensions
3. Delete from the list everything that is related to Facemoods Virus
4. Click on Search Providers.
5. Click Facemoods Search and click the Remove button at the bottom right corner.
6. Go to Tools --> Internet Options
7. Click General and then click Use default button (facemoods.com address has to disappear from the address box).
8. Click OK and exit the menu.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Click Alt to see the Menu bar.
2. Go to Tools --> Add-ons.
3. Click Extensions, select Facemoods and click Remove.
4. Click the small search engine icon on the left of the search bar (at the top right corner of your browser).
5. Click Manage Search Engines on the list.
6. Highlight Facemoods Search and click Remove. Click OK.
7. Go to Tools --> Options --> General.
8. Click "Restore to Default" button.

Google Chrome

1. Click Facemoods icon at the right corner of your address bar.
2. Click Uninstall.
3. Click Customize and control Google Chrome icon right next to the Facemoods icon.
4. Click Settings.
5. Click Manage search engines... button.
6. Change default search engine into whatever you want.
7. Highlight Facemoods and click the X button next to "Make default".