Did you recently see search.sidecubes.com appear in a new tab in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox? Unfortunately, you probably have some unwanted software on your machine.

I got the search.sidecubes.com web site installed in my browser, after testing out a download that bundled lots of potentially unwanted softwares.

This is how I did to remove search.sidecubes.com:

1. I went into the Windows Control Panel to uninstall some programs that appeared there recently. I checked the “Installed on” date, and removed SearchSnacks, VideosMediaPlayers, Browsers+Apps+1.1, Browser Warden, Search Protect and Shopop.
2. I ran FreeFixer to clean up even more.

This fixed the search.sidecubes.com problem for me. If it did not for you, you can also try the “Reset Browser” feature that is available in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. This will restore your browser into a state that is almost as when you installed it the first time.

Did this help you remove search.sidecubes.com?

Any idea how you got sidecubes.com on your machine?

Welcome! Did you just find something called Web Finder Pro on your computer? If Web Finder Pro is running on your system, you will spot see a new add-on, called Web Finder Pro 0.1, added in Mozilla Firefox. I’ll show how to remove Web Finder Pro in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.

Web Finder Pro is bundled with other software. Bundled means that it is included in another software’s installer. However, I could not see any disclosure in the installer that Web Finder Pro 0.1 would be installed. Perhaps I did not review the licenses displayed during installation enough to find it.

Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as Web Finder Pro by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.

If you would like to remove Web Finder Pro you can do so with the freeware FreeFixer tool. Select the Web Finder Pro files for removal in FreeFixer, click Fix, restart your computer and the problem will be gone. Here’s a screenshot to point you in the right direction:

Hope that helped you with the removal.

I stumbled upon Web Finder Pro while testing out some downloads that are known to bundled lots of unwanted software. Any idea how you got Web Finder Pro on your computer? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thanks!

Thank you for reading.

Just a quick post on the Websearch.searchfix.info hijack. You can remove Websearch.searchfix.info from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox by selecting the following items in FreeFixer:

If that did not completely remove Websearch.searchfix.info you use can the Reset Feature in your browsers.

Thanks for reading.

Did you find something called Rich Media Player and wonder where it came from? It might have been installed on your machine in a software bundle. Here’s how the Rich Media Player was disclosed in an installer for another program:

Here’s how the Rich Media Player icon and user interface looks like:

According to the EULA, Rich Media Player may show

“offers and/or advertisements.”

None of the the 54 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal is detecting the rmhelper.exe file:

Hope that helped you figure out how Rich Media Player was installed on your machine.

Thanks for reading.

Hello guys and gals! Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming. I found another bundled program called FindWide Toolbar yesterday and thought I should give you some removal instructions. FindWide.com and FindWide Toolbar is bundled with some software downloads. Here’s how it appeared in the installer where I found it:

If you got FindWide.com and the FindWide Toolbar on your machine, you will see it in the toolbar area on your browser and in the add-ons menu.

If you want to remove FindWide.com and the FindWide Toolbar, you can do so from the uninstall programs menu in the Windows Control Panel.

If that would fail, or if it did not completely remove FindWide, you can remove FindWide with the freeware tool FreeFixer. Just select the FindWide files and settings as shown in the screenshots below:

Thanks for reading!

Did you just find something called FastPlayer on your machine? You might want to scan your computer with an anti-malware program. Here’s the detection results for FastPlayer.exe:

You can remove FastPlayer with FreeFixer. Just select FastPlayer.exe, fastplayerupdaterservice.exe and fastChecker.exe for removal:

Any idea how you got the FastPlayer on your machine?

Thanks for reading.

Found a new bundled programs called StormWatch today. The main file is called StormWatchApp.exe and it is detected by a few anti-virus programs:

When browsing the other web site that talks about StormWatch, the consensus appears to be that it shows ads, but I have not seen any. If you have this on your machine, Do you see some “StormWatch ads”?