{"id":12,"date":"2013-10-18T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=12"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:58","slug":"ads-by-passwidget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/ads-by-passwidget\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads by PassWidget &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran into an adware that modifies web pages, by inserting ads labeled &#8220;Ads by PassWidget&#8221;:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 978px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13 \" title=\"Advertisements labeled &quot;Ads by PassWidget&quot;\" alt=\"Advertisements labeled &quot;Ads by PassWidget&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget.png\" width=\"978\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget.png 978w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advertisements labeled &#8220;Ads by PassWidget&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/library\/file\/PassWidget_.exe-102319\/\">PassWidget<\/a> appears to be a rebranding of the <a href=\"\/library\/file\/LyricsBuddy-1-bho.dll-101251\/\">LyricsBuddy adware<\/a>.\u00a0I&#8217;ve previously posted a video on how to remove the LyricsBuddy with the help of <a href=\"\/download.html\">FreeFixer<\/a> which you may find useful when deleting PassWidget. It&#8217;s the same removal procedure, scan, check the PassWidget files, click Fix and your done. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hym5d8HigXg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did that solve the problem?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update October 27, 2013<\/strong>: I just noticed that the Passwidget Ads can appears as links with a mouse-over effect. These are also labeled &#8220;Ads by Passwidget&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget-link.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89\" alt=\"Ads by Passwidget as a mouse-over effect of a link.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget-link.png\" width=\"329\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget-link.png 329w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ads-by-passwidget-link-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran into an adware that modifies web pages, by inserting ads labeled &#8220;Ads by PassWidget&#8221;: PassWidget appears to be a rebranding of the LyricsBuddy adware.\u00a0I&#8217;ve previously posted a video on how to remove the LyricsBuddy with the help of FreeFixer which you may find useful when deleting PassWidget. It&#8217;s the same removal procedure, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/ads-by-passwidget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ads by PassWidget &#8211; Removal Instructions<\/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],"tags":[4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}