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.
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Note! Your computer might be affected by Banana Phone Ads and other threats.
Threats such as Banana Phone Ads may be persistent on your system. They tend to re-appear if not fully deleted. A malware removal tool like SpyHunter will help you to remove malicious programs, saving you the time and the struggle of tracking down numerous malicious files. SpyHunter’s scanner is free but the paid version is needed to remove the malware threats. Read SpyHunter’s EULA and Privacy Policy
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.
In case you see annoying advertisements that has a caption similar to ‘Ads by Banana Phone’ or ‘Powered by Banana Phone’, chances are, you may have installed a bundled PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) on your computer. PUPs are usually believed to be harmless. However, most of them cooperate with suspicious third parties that may in some cases conceal certain risks for the user.
Banana Phone may be situated onto your system via the most often mean, PUPs do – by being combined with downloaded installers from third-parties. The average PC user does not usually pay enough attention to what exactly is being installed as an extra on their, system. That’s why they tend to overlook some steps as long as they have their favorite media player, torrent engine or any other similar freeware application they are used to. Once installed on a PC, Banana Phone may begin to display interruptive advertisements, clicking on which may result in:
Such third party sites may be dangerous to the user PC since sometimes cyber-criminals use different methods via PUPs to get their schemes into the open for the public. This is a viable strategy for them since the PUPs they choose are often unknown and new programs. Due to their vast number out in the open web, it has become a tricky process to detect and protect oneself each of them. More to that, PUPs are believed to be mostly legitimate because some of them have privacy policies that may legalize their information collection and sharing via cookies and other methods to third parties.
How To Remove Banana Phone Ads?
In case you have identified Banana Phone Ads, you should act quickly. First, it is advisable to follow the removal guide below. After that, you should download a reputable anti-malware program that will scan and kill every trace of it from the PC. Also, by installing an anti-malware software, you are protecting yourself from future intrusions and attacks on your PC.
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 Banana Phone Ads.
2. Restore the settings in your browser
2. Remove Banana Phone Ads 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 Banana Phone Ads and click “Remove”
After Banana Phone Ads 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 Banana Phone Ads and click on the garbage bin icon on the right of it.
After Banana Phone Ads 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 Banana Phone Ads 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 Banana Phone Ads 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 Banana Phone Ads Click ‘Uninstall’
A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall Banana Phone Ads. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the Banana Phone Ads will be removed.
To clean your computer with the award-winning software Spy Hunter – It is highly recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by SpyHunter.
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.
In case you see annoying advertisements that has a caption similar to ‘Ads by Banana Phone’ or ‘Powered by Banana Phone’, chances are, you may have installed a bundled PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) on your computer. PUPs are usually believed to be harmless. However, most of them cooperate with suspicious third parties that may in some cases conceal certain risks for the user.
Remove a toolbar from Mozilla Firefox
Remove a toolbar from Google Chrome
Remove a toolbar from Internet Explorer
Remove a toolbar from Safari
