Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
Note! Your computer might be affected by BCool and other threats.
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Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
BCool is a legitimate application that has been quite popular in the US, the UK, and Taiwan lately. The free app is promoted as a useful tool that will help users access their favorite websites, play their favorite games, read the latest news, watch their favorite movies – all that with a simple mouse-click. As attractive as these features may sound, malware experts warn that BCool is a classic example of an adware program which disadvantages outweigh its benefits, and recommend its removal with a competent anti-malware tool.
BCool is a browser extension for the commonly used web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) that can end up in your computer bundled with other free programs and applications you have downloaded online. Although this distribution technique is legitimate, it is capable of giving access to potentially unsafe software to the user’s machine. Be attentive to each step of the installation process and always select the Advanced settings, which provide you with a list of all additional installations.
How Does BCool Affect Your System?
BCool is known to display numerous advertisements (pop-ups, banners, deals, coupons, etc.) every time you visit BestBuy, EBay or other online shopping sites The application is ad-supported and aims to boost the web traffic for certain web pages and generate profit or their developers. The ads will not only disrupt your browsing, but they may also link you to potentially unsafe web locations and put your system to risk.
To display relevant advertising content, BCool tracks certain information on the compromised machine, such as IP address, search queries, browsing history, etc. The collected data may be transferred to third-party advertisers for marketing purposes.
Adware may cause unpermitted modifications of your homepage, search engine, and new tab page, and redirect you to predetermined and potentially unsafe web pages.
How to Remove BCool from Your PC?
BCool can be deleted manually or with a trustworthy anti-malware tool. Below is a detailed step-by-step removal guide that will help you remove BCool permanently from your computer.
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1. Remove/Uninstall BCool
1. Remove/Uninstall BCool in Windows
Here is a method in few easy steps to remove that program.No matter if you are using Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program get left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, mistakes with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:
Hold the Windows Logo Button and “R” on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will appear (fig.1).
In the field type in “appwiz.cpl” and press ENTER (fig.2).
This will open a window with all the programs installed on the PC. Select the program that you want to remove, and press “Uninstall” (fig.3).
Follow the instructions above and you will successfully uninstall BCool.
2. Restore the settings in your browser
2. Remove BCool from your browser
Remove a toolbar from Mozilla FirefoxRemove a toolbar from Google Chrome Remove a toolbar from Internet Explorer Remove a toolbar from Safari
Start Mozilla Firefox Open the menu window
Select the “Add-ons” icon from the menu
Select BCool and click “Remove”
After BCool is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.
Start Google Chrome and Open the drop menu
Move the cursor over “Tools” and then from the extended menu choose “Extensions“
From the opened “Extensions” menu locate BCool and click on the garbage bin icon on the right of it.
After BCool is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.
Start Internet Explorer:
Click “‘Tools’ to open the drop menu and select ‘Manage Add-ons’
In the ‘Manage Add-ons’ window, make sure that in the first window ‘Add-on Types’, the drop menu ‘Show’ is on ‘All add-ons’
Select BCool to remove, and then click ‘Disable’. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected toolbar, and some additional toolbars might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click ‘Disable’.
After BCool has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red ‘X’ in the top right corner and start it again.
Start Safari
Open the drop menu by clicking on the sprocket icon in the top right corner.
From the drop menu select ‘Preferences’ In the new window select ‘Extensions’ Click once on BCool Click ‘Uninstall’
A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall BCool. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the BCool will be removed.
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Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
BCool is a legitimate application that has been quite popular in the US, the UK, and Taiwan lately. The free app is promoted as a useful tool that will help users access their favorite websites, play their favorite games, read the latest news, watch their favorite movies – all that with a simple mouse-click. As attractive as these features may sound, malware experts warn that BCool is a classic example of an adware program which disadvantages outweigh its benefits, and recommend its removal with a competent anti-malware tool.
Remove a toolbar from Mozilla Firefox
Remove a toolbar from Google Chrome
Remove a toolbar from Internet Explorer
Remove a toolbar from Safari
