What is SMSFromBrowser Toolbar?
It seems that there is an inexhaustible fountain of creativity and money-making toolbars at Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc., and SMSFromBrowser Toolbar seems to be the new fruit of that. Although it pretends to be a very useful toolbar by offering for you the ability to send free text messages directly from your computer, the truth is that our malware specialists at Anti-Spyware-101.com have labeled it as a bad toolbar. It means that it exhibits suspicious behavior that might put your system’s security at risk. It is essential for you to know what the presence of this toolbar may cause. So, please read our full report to also find out how you can delete SMSFromBrowser Toolbar from your computer.
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Where does SMSFromBrowser Toolbar come from?
While you can install SMSFromBrowser Toolbar straight from its website, smsfrombrowser.com, it is quite possible that you have never visited that site and you still have this toolbar on your PC somehow. You need to know that this toolbar can also travel in freeware bundles, which may be packed with a bunch of malware infections. Most people do not even know that they themselves initiate the download before they get infected with a variety of malware programs. It is very easy to be fooled or misled by the installers and, to be quite frank, it is also intentional on the part of the distributors. Therefore, it is important that after you remove SMSFromBrowser Toolbar, you check your system by running an online scanner, for example, in order to see if there are any other threats present.
What does SMSFromBrowser Toolbar do?
SMSFromBrowser Toolbar is a new member in the so-called Mindspark toolbar family that includes DownloadManagerTool Toolbar and MergeDocsOnline Toolbar, just to name a few. Once this toolbar is active on your system, it changes your browser settings to set Ask.com as your new home page and search engine too. The installer does offer you a chance to decline these changes by letting you un-tick the designated checkboxes, but a lot of users fail to see these and are surprised to see the result. Since it affects all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, you cannot really escape it. It is not only annoying that you lose your preferred home page and search engine, but this toolbar can also introduce you to potentially dangerous third-party websites. It can do it by inserting sponsored links among the search results when you use its third-party search tool. Although Ask.com is a reliable search engine, this toolbar may modify the results to display targeted links for you. Since SMSFromBrowser Toolbar collects a great variety of data about your browsing habits, including your search queries, it is not difficult to show you links that can easily get your attention and even make you click on them without a second thought. And that is exactly what schemers like to exploit too, and lure you to their compromised websites. If you want to keep your system safe, we advise you to remove SMSFromBrowser Toolbar as soon as you can.
How do I remove SMSFromBrowser Toolbar?
There is bad and good news when it comes to removing SMSFromBrowser Toolbar. The bad news is, it may be a bit complicated for an inexperienced computer user. However, the good news is that it is not impossible if you follow our step-by-step guide below the article. But, if you are not the manual type of person, you would be better off using a reliable antimalware tool that will automatically tackle all issues caused by infections. We recommend the use of a security tool anyway, because there is a good chance that this toolbar is not the only threat on your computer. It would be a rather cumbersome process to manually identify and eliminate all the suspicious files and infections. Why not use technology instead that takes this burden off your shoulders?
SMSFromBrowser Toolbar Removal
Windows 8/Windows 8.1
- Move your mouse cursor to the bottom-left corner and right-click on the Windows logo.
- Select Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program.
- Click on the toolbar and click Uninstall.
Windows Vista/Windows 7
- Open the Start menu and select Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program.
- Select the toolbar and click Uninstall.
Windows XP
- Click Start and select Control Panel.
- Click Add or Remove Programs.
- Remove the toolbar from the list.
Reset your browsers
Internet Explorer
- Tap Alt+T and select Internet Options.
- On the Advanced tab click Reset.
- Tick the Delete personal settings checkbox and press Reset.
- Click Close.
Mozilla Firefox
- Tap Alt+H simultaneously and select Troubleshooting Information.
- Click Refresh Firefox.
- In the pop-up click Refresh Firefox again.
- Click Finish.
Google Chrome
- Access the menu and go to Settings.
- Click Show advanced settings at the bottom.
- Scroll all the way down and click Reset settings.
- Click Reset.
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