{"id":2147,"date":"2014-10-17T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:58","slug":"remove-browsersapps1-1-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browsersapps1-1-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Browsers+Apps+1.1 &#8211; Ads by Browsers+Apps+1.1 Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming on <a title=\"The freeware FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Today I wanted to talk about an <strong>adware<\/strong> named <strong>Browsers+Apps+1.1<\/strong> and give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. Browsers+Apps+1.1 seems to be a variant of <strong>CrossRider<\/strong> that I&#8217;ve blogged about before. If the Browsers+Apps+1.1 adware is running on your machine, you will see ads tagged <strong>Ad by Browsers+Apps+1.1<\/strong>\u00a0or <strong>Ads by Browsers+Apps+1.1\u00a0<\/strong>injected into web pages while you browse and new add-ons in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I&#8217;ll show how to remove Browsers+Apps+1.1 in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browsers-apps-1.1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2148 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browsers-apps-1.1.png\" alt=\"ad by browsers+apps+1.1\" width=\"335\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browsers-apps-1.1.png 335w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browsers-apps-1.1-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ads-by-Browsers-Apps-1.1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2149 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ads-by-Browsers-Apps-1.1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Ads by Browsers+Apps+1.1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-firefox.png\" alt=\"browsers+apps+1.1 firefox\" width=\"682\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-firefox.png 682w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-firefox-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Browsers+Apps+1.1 is distributed by a strategy called <strong>bundling<\/strong>. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software&#8217;s installers.<\/p>\n<p>As always when I find some new bundled software I uploaded it to VirusTotal to check if the anti-virus software there find something suspicious. 16% of the antimalware scanners detected the file. Malwarebytes classifies Browsers+Apps+1.1 as <strong>PUP.Optional.BrowsersApp.A<\/strong>, McAfee detects it as <strong>CrossRider-FRV<\/strong> and VIPRE detects it as <strong>Crossrider (fs)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You probably came here looking for <strong>removal instructions for Browsers+Apps+1.1<\/strong> and you can do so with the <a title=\"About the FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool. Just select the Browsers+Apps+1.1 files as the screenshots below shows. A restart of your machine may be required to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-internet-explorer-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2152 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-internet-explorer-remove.png\" alt=\"Remove browsers+apps+1.1 in Internet Explorer\" width=\"788\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-internet-explorer-remove.png 788w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-internet-explorer-remove-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-remove-tasks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2153 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-remove-tasks.png\" alt=\"Remove browsers+apps+1.1 scheduled tasks\" width=\"784\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-remove-tasks.png 784w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browsers-apps-1.1-remove-tasks-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you with the removal.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon Browsers+Apps+1.1 while testing out some downloads that are known to bundled lots of unwanted software. Any idea how you got Browsers+Apps+1.1 on your computer? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming on FreeFixer. Today I wanted to talk about an adware named Browsers+Apps+1.1 and give you some removal instructions. Browsers+Apps+1.1 seems to be a variant of CrossRider that I&#8217;ve blogged about before. If the Browsers+Apps+1.1 adware is running on your machine, you will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browsersapps1-1-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Browsers+Apps+1.1 &#8211; Ads by Browsers+Apps+1.1 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":[3,16],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}