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Remove Fruit Basket – FruitBasket Removal Instructions

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Just wanted to write a short blog post before going back to programming. As usual I was looking around on the Internet to see what is being bundled with some software downloads. This time I found something called Fruit Basket. Fruit Basket seems to be a variant of BrowseFox that I blogged about previously. If Fruit Basket is installed and running on your computer, you will see a new add-on called FruitBasket added into Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Fruit Basket firefox add-on

 

I didn’t see anything added into Google Chrome. Did FruitBasket install into Chrome on your machine?

I’ll show how to remove Fruit Basket in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.

Fruit Basket is bundled in other software’s installers.

When I stumble upon some new bundled software I normally upload it to VirusTotal to verify if the anti-malware scanners there detect anything interesting. 20 of the scanners detected the file. Some of the detection names for Fruit Basket are ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen2, W32/S-f64f6ec1!Eldorado, Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey, Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.11547 and AdWare.MSIL.Agent.

FruitBasket anti-virus report

Removing Fruit Basket is straightforward with FreeFixer. Just select the Fruit Basket files/settings for removal and then click the Fix button and the problem will be solved.

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Hope this helped you remove the Fruit Basket adware.

Do you also have Fruit Basket on your machine? Any idea how it installed? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thank you very much!

Thank you for reading and welcome back.

Stepan Rybin – 44% Detection Rate – MultiPlug / Adware.Mikey

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Hello! Did you see a file, such as WhatsApp.exe, on your system signed by Stepan Rybin? Then read on..

I found this Stepan Rybin file while reviewing some of the submissions to the FreeFixer web site. I thought it looked a little bit like a typical “MultiPlug” adware file and the VirusTotal scan result showed that was the case. Ad-Aware reports WhatsApp.exe as Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.7658, Avast calls it Win32:MultiPlug-TP [PUP], Cyren names it W32/S-05e718fa!Eldorado, F-Prot calls it W32/S-05e718fa!Eldorado and Sophos detects it as MultiPlug.

Stepan Rybin anti-virus report

Did you also find a Stepan Rybin download? Do you remember where you downloaded it? Please post the URL in the comments below. I’d like to install this download on my lab machine to have a closer look at it.

Thank you for reading.