{"id":1010,"date":"2014-06-20T05:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:51","slug":"remove-focusbase-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-focusbase-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove The Focusbase Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just stumbled on a new adware called\u00a0<strong>Focusbase<\/strong> this morning. You might have noticed it on your machine by new ads labeled \u00a0<strong>Ads by Focusbase<\/strong>\u00a0appearing or the\u00a0<strong>Focusbase<\/strong> add-ons listed\u00a0in Firefox and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox-add-on.png\" alt=\"focusbase firefox add-on\" width=\"602\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox-add-on.png 602w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox-add-on-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-internet-explorer-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1016 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-internet-explorer-add-on.png\" alt=\"Focusbase Internet Explorer add-on\" width=\"644\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-internet-explorer-add-on.png 644w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-internet-explorer-add-on-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-internet-explorer-add-on-604x270.png 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found the <strong>Focusbase<\/strong>\u00a0adware bundled with another program. The installer file was called FlvPlayer.exe and was digitally signed by a company called <strong>Outbrowse LTD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1015 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-installer.png\" alt=\"focusbase installer digitally signed by OutBrowse LTD.\" width=\"428\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-installer.png 428w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-installer-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how <strong>Focusbase<\/strong> was disclosed in the installer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bundled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1012 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bundled.png\" alt=\"How Focusbase is disclosed in the bundling installer\" width=\"613\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bundled.png 613w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bundled-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Focusbase content includes advertisements and is not affiliated with any underlying web sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, how about the <strong>Focusbase<\/strong> removal? Easy peasy with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the <strong>Focusbase<\/strong> files for removal in FreeFixer as shown in the screenshots below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1013 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox.png\" alt=\"removing the Focusbase extension in Firefox\" width=\"800\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox.png 800w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-firefox-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bho.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1011 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bho.png\" alt=\"Removing focusbasebho.dll\" width=\"800\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bho.png 800w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/focusbase-bho-300x79.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you figure out what <strong>Focusbase<\/strong> is, how it is installed on user&#8217;s computers and how to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>How did you get the <strong>Focusbase adware<\/strong> on your machine?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just stumbled on a new adware called\u00a0Focusbase this morning. You might have noticed it on your machine by new ads labeled \u00a0Ads by Focusbase\u00a0appearing or the\u00a0Focusbase add-ons listed\u00a0in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I found the Focusbase\u00a0adware bundled with another program. The installer file was called FlvPlayer.exe and was digitally signed by a company called Outbrowse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-focusbase-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Remove The Focusbase Adware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}