Hello there and welcome to the FreeFixer blog. Today I wanted to talk about an adware called PortalMore that I found a few days ago and give you some removal instructions. PortalMore seems to be a variant of BrowseFox/AltBrowse that I wrote about previously. If the PortalMore adware is installed and running on your computer, you’ll see ads labeled PortalMore Ads inserted into web pages while you browse and new add-ons added in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I’ll show how to remove PortalMore in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.

PortalMore is bundled with a number of downloads. Bundling means that software is included in other software’s installers. This is how PortalMore was disclosed in the installer when I found it:

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

As usual when I run into some new bundled software I uploaded it to VirusTotal to check if the anti-viruses there find something. Of the 55 anti-malware scanners, 37 detected the file. Some of the detection names for PortalMore are BrowseFox.F, Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK and PUP.Optional.PortalMore.A.

All you need to do to remove PortalMore is to check the PortalMore files in the FreeFixer scan result and click the Fix button. You may have to restart your machine to complete the removal. Here’s a few screenshots that should help you along the way:

Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.

I stumbled upon PortalMore while testing out some downloads that are known to bundled lots of unwanted software. Any idea how you got PortalMore on your machine? Please share in the comments below. Thank you very much!

Thank you for reading.

Hello there, hope you are having a great weekend. Just found another adware variant called RockResult. It appears that RockResult has been around for a while, at least a month, judging from the other anti-malware bloggers. But since I found it bundled today, I though I should write a short post about it.

If you have RockResult on your machine, you’ll see ads tagged as “RockResult Ads” while you are browsing the web. Here’s an example of the RockResult ads:

RockResult is added as an add-on in Internet Explorer and Firefox:

So, how did RockResult install on your machine? It was probably bundled with some download that you installed recently. Here’s how RockResult was disclosed when I found it:

I’m sure you’d like to remove RockResult, and that’s pretty easy with FreeFixer. Select the RockResult files, as shown in the screenshots below, click Fix, and reboot your machine and the ads should be gone.

Thanks for reading.

Hello readers! Today I’m posting removal instructions for yet another adware variant called snipsmart. The snipsmart adware is bundled with other software downloads. So if snipsmart appeared unexpectedly on your machine, that’s probably how it was installed.

Snipsmart is installed as an add-on in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Here’s a screendump from my lab machine which shows snipsmart in the add-ons menu of Firefox:

Typically, this type of adware adds banners on web site while you are browsing the web. The ads are usually tagged with texts such as “Snipsmart ads” or “Ads by Snipsmart“. However, for unknown reasons, I did not see any ads. Do you see the snipsmart ads on your machine? Please take a screenshot of the ad and send it to me and I’ll post it here on the blog. Thank you very much!

As per usual, I uploaded snipsmart to VirusTotal to see what the antivirus scanners report. And the detection rate is low. Only 6 of the 55 anti-virus programs detected the snipsmartBho.dll file:

So, let’s get on with the snipsmart removal. As usual, this type of adware is easy to remove with FreeFixer. Just select the snipsmart files for removal and click Fix. You may have to reboot your machine to complete the removal. Here’s FreeFixer in action uninstalling snipsmart:

Hope that helped you figure out what snipsmart is and how to remove it.

How did you get snipsmart on your machine? Please share by posting a comment.

Getting bombarded with ads labeled “InfiniNet Ads” in Internet Explorer and Firefox? Then you got the InfiniNet adware installed on your machine. InfiniNet inserts ads while you browse the web. I’ve seen the ads appear on all types of web pages.

Here InfiniNet inserts ads in search results on the Google search engine: 

I found the InfiniNet adware while testing another download that I knew had a history of bundling other types of adwares. Here’s how InfiniNet was disclosed in the installer:

InfiniNet installs itself as an add-on in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Here’s how it shows up in Firefox’s add-on menu:

The anti-virus scanners seems to be pretty up to date when it comes to detecting InfiniNet.

The detection rate is 45% which I think is pretty good. Some of the detection names are BrowseFox and AltBrowse.

The InfiniNet removal is straightforward with Freefixer. Just start the scan, select the InifiniNet files, click Fix and reboot your machine and the ads should be long gone. Here’s a few screenshots that shows FreeFixer in action deleting the InfiniNet files:

How did you get InfiniNet on your machine? Please share by posting a comment.

Found a new adware called Adanak today. If you got the Adanak adware on your machine, you’ll notice it when starting Mozilla Firefox.

Here’s how Adanak appears in Firefox’s Add-ons dialog:

The anti-virus programs have a pretty decent detection rate for the Adanak adware. 20 of 53 anti-virus scanners detect Adanak according to VirusTotal:

Removal is easy with FreeFixer, just select the Adanak files for removal, and then click Fix and the problem will be solved:

How did you get Adanak on your machine?