Video Box Ads

Posted by Lisa Blanc on April 3, 2017

What is Video Box Ads?

Video Box Ads are irritating commercial advertisements coming from an application VideoBox. It works as a tool for downloading videos from popular third-party websites, so users see these irritating ads only when they use the service it provides. Although the program displaying commercial advertisements on users’ Desktops works in a useful way, it, unfortunately, cannot be called a fully trustworthy application for downloading content from third-party pages. The presence of Video Box Ads should be blamed for this. It is not likely at all that it is going to change, so you will be forced to solve a real dilemma about whether to delete this piece of software from the system or not. Keeping it will allow you to easily download videos from the web, but, on the other hand, this means that Video Box Ads will show up on your computer’s screen every day. These ads should not be called malicious. Instead, specialists refer to them as “potentially dangerous.” As you could have understood, researchers have a negative opinion about ads Video Box displays. test

What do Video Box Ads do?

As you should know after reading the first paragraph of this article, Video Box Ads are closely associated with Video Box, so it must be installed on your computer too if these commercials are visible. According to malware analysts at anti-spyware-101.com, these ads should not be placed on third-party websites you surf. You should not see your browser opening automatically with ads either. Most likely, their only place will be the main window of Video Box. Research has revealed that Video Box Ads can only be seen when the program is downloading videos from the web (it is compatible with YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, and other popular pages). Judging from the provided excerpt taken from the Privacy Policy document, it does not even try to hide this fact: “The Website may contain links to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by Video-Box.org.” Video Box has no control over these third-party websites users will be redirected to after clicking on any of these third-party ads they see. This means that you will be the one responsible for problems if they arise out of surfing dubious pages. As has been noticed by our researchers, Video Box Ads frequently lead to adult websites, but, of course, other pages might be promoted too. You will never end up on these websites against your will if you make ads gone. Unfortunately, a video downloader needs to be erased from the computer to get rid of them.

Where do Video Box Ads come from?

Users see Video Box Ads only if they have a video downloader Video Box installed on their PCs and use it. Unfortunately, it is unclear where users get this program from because it is impossible to download it from its official website video-box.org. Because of this, specialists have decided to find out how it enters users’ computers. It has become clear after carrying out research that this piece of software travels in software bundles. This is, it travels next to free software and, consequently, enters computers unnoticed. Because of this, not all the users know that there is a Video Box application installed on their PCs. There are ways to make sure that undesirable software does not enter the computer again, of course. First of all, there must be reputable security applications installed on computers connected to the Internet. Second, users should always find out more about programs before installing them on their systems.

How to remove Video Box Ads

We can assure you that you will no longer see Video Box Ads if you delete Video Box from your computer. Luckily, it has an uninstaller, so its deletion should be a quick and easy process. Although this video downloader works well, it might cause problems too, so keeping it installed is not recommended. Since the application showing Video Box Ads has entered your PC in a software bundle, theoretically, there might be other untrustworthy programs working on the system too. Find out whether or not it is true by scanning your system with a reputable antimalware scanner. It will become clear what the real situation is after doing that.