How To Remove Bellaphant Adware

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Found another adware variant called Bellaphant today. It was bundled with a download called MediaFinder. Here’s how Bellaphant is disclosed in the MediaFinder installer:Bellaphant is bundled with Media Finder

According to the disclosure, Bellaphant

provides special offers and coupons, website ratings and reviews, multi-site searching, comparison shopping and related search results. Additional features may be auto-enabled after installing.

13 of the 51 anti-virus programs are clearly aware of  the Bellaphant adware, as you can see in the scan result from VirusTotal:

Bellaphant VirusTotal scan result

If you have Bellaphant on your machine you can see it in Mozilla Firefox’ and Internet Explorer’s Add-Ons menu:

bellaphant appears as a firefox addon bellaphant also appears as an Internet Explorer add-on

If you’d like to remove Bellaphant with FreeFixer, you can just check the Mozilla Firefox Extension and the Internet Exlorer browser helper object called bellaphantbho.dll:

bellaphant in FreeFixer Select Bellaphantbho.dll to remove Bellaphant from Internet Explorer

I found Bellaphant bundled with MediaFinder. How did you get Bellaphant on your machine?