What is FreeShoppingTool Toolbar?
FreeShoppingTool Toolbar is a new piece of software released by Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. The company has already developed a bunch of different tools based on the same template. Speaking about FreeShoppingTool Toolbar, it targets computer users who do shopping at online stores. If you open its official website http://www.freeshoppingtool.com/index.jhtml and read the program’s description available on this website, you will find out that it promises to help users save money and time by providing them with the best deals every day, enabling them to access coupons and promo codes, and simply making it possible to compare prices with a few clicks. If you love shopping, you will probably want to install FreeShoppingTool Toolbar to enhance your online shopping experience; however, if you asked us, we would vote for the installation of another program. This browser plugin is not the most trustworthy application for sure. It has been classified as a potentially unwanted program by specialists because it has several drawbacks. You will find out more about FreeShoppingTool Toolbar if you read the next paragraph of this report.
What does FreeShoppingTool Toolbar do?
Do not be surprised if you start seeing a new page every time you open your Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome after the FreeShoppingTool Toolbar installation. This browser plugin is the one that has applied changes to your web browser. To be more specific, it hijacks the New Tab page on users’ web browsers. Unfortunately, FreeShoppingTool Toolbar does not do anything else. How about coupons, deals, and product reviews? This potentially unwanted application only sets a page that contains buttons opening third-party services. You will also find buttons that open popular websites, including Facebook, Booking, Amazon, and many others on it as well. Additionally, you could perform searches straight from your web browser’s Start page because the page set by FreeShoppingTool Toolbar contains a search box. If you enter a search query, you will see Google search results. Unfortunately, we cannot confirm that these search results can be trusted 100%. All your searches will be redirected through search.myway.co before Google search results are displayed, so there is a huge possibility that you will be presented with some sponsored search results as well, specialists say. It is definitely not the best idea to click on them since they might redirect to untrustworthy websites. Unfortunately, an inexperienced person could hardly recognize these sponsored search results and, most likely, will sooner or later click on them if they are displayed to him/her.
Where does FreeShoppingTool Toolbar come from?
Potentially unwanted applications are often distributed in bundles together with other third-party programs, but this is definitely not the only distribution method that may be used to spread FreeShoppingTool Toolbar. According to our researchers who have analyzed this potentially unwanted application, some users install this piece of software from commercial advertisements. That is, they click on ads promoting this browser plugin and thus install the application on their computers. Of course, we do not try to say here that there are no users who download FreeShoppingTool Toolbar from its official website consciously. In fact, it does not really matter where you download it from because it is the same potentially unwanted program that alters browsers’ settings upon the installation in all the cases. Of course, we will help you to remove FreeShoppingTool Toolbar in case you have found it undesirable, or it has been installed on your system without your knowledge, but you should yourself take security measures to prevent new untrustworthy applications from entering your PC in the future as well. You should simply install an antimalware tool on your computer. Needless to say, this tool must be 100% trustworthy so that it could protect you from dangerous computer threats trying to compromise your security.
How to remove FreeShoppingTool Toolbar
Remove FreeShoppingTool Toolbar from your system right away if you have changed your opinion about it after reading this article, or you have simply found this piece of software installed on your computer out of the blue. If you follow the step-by-step instructions provided below, it will not take long to eliminate it. Of course, it is no doubt faster to delete infections automatically. If you opt for the automated undesirable software removal, you will have to acquire a trustworthy antimalware tool and then scan your system with it.
FreeShoppingTool Toolbar removal guide
Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome.
- Tap Alt+F.
- Click More tools and select Extensions.
- Find the FreeShoppingTool extension on the list.
- Click Remove next to it.
Mozilla Firefox
- Launch Mozilla Firefox.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+A.
- Locate the extension representing FreeShoppingTool Toolbar.
- Select it and click Remove.
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