VideosFox Removal Manual

VideosFox is a browser extension supposedly aiming to enhance your experience as you watch videos online. This may sound like a useful functionality, yet experts classify VideosFox as adware and potentially unwanted program (PUP) and recommend its removal. Once installed VideosFox is known to inject a considerable amount of third party advertisements (pop-ups, banners, coupons, deals, offers, etc.) that may disrupt the user’s browsing routine and expose the affected system to numerous security issues.

How Is VideosFox Distributed?

Applications and browser extensions like VideosFox are often delivered to the user’s PC bundled with freeware programs downloaded from popular free download websites. Although the promoted apps are supposed to be safe and legitimate, users are advised to pay close attention to the installation process and not to allow random applications to end up on their machines. Selecting the Advanced installation options gives you the opportunity to opt-out. Selecting trustworthy download sources and keeping your AV products up-to-date is essential when it comes to the security of your computer.

How Does VideosFox Affect Your Computer?

After VideosFox is successfully installed on your browser (VideosFox is compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other commonly used browsers), it will generate numerous intrusive online advertisements, including pop-ups, coupons, banners, price comparisons. Each of these ads may expose your system to security issues if you click on it. Third parties usually use adware to promote their products and services, but mainly to boost the traffic of their web pages and generate PPC (pay-per-click) revenue.

Adware programs are sometimes associated with unwanted and unapproved modification of the browser settings, such as redirecting the homepage and search engine tabs to predetermined websites without the user’s consent.

VideosFox may also collect certain browsing-related information, like IP address, pages visited, search queries, browser and operating system type. Sharing the gathered data with unknown third parties for various marketing purposes is not excluded.

How to Remove VideosFox from Your Computer?

VideosFox may not be of a malicious nature, but the risks the promoted third party links may expose your system to, should not be taken lightly. Malware experts recommend the removal of VideosFox from your computer either manually or with the assistance of a competent anti-spyware tool. Whichever option is more suitable for you, you can follow the steps below to delete VideosFox completely from your PC.

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1. Remove/Uninstall VideosFox

1. Remove/Uninstall VideosFox 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 VideosFox.

2. Restore the settings in your browser

2. Remove VideosFox 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 VideosFox and click “Remove”

After VideosFox 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 VideosFox and click on the garbage bin icon on the right of it.

After VideosFox 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 VideosFox 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 VideosFox 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 VideosFox
Click ‘Uninstall’

A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall VideosFox. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the VideosFox will be removed.

3. Remove VideosFox automatically with Spy Hunter Malware - Removal Tool.

3. Remove VideosFox automatically with Spy Hunter Malware – Removal Tool.

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Berta Bilbao

Berta is the Editor-in-Chief of SensorsTechForum. She is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space.

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