{"id":239,"date":"2014-02-17T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:56","slug":"remove-flowsurf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-flowsurf\/","title":{"rendered":"What is FlowSurf &#8211; FlowSurf Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was reviewing the new files added into the <a href=\"\/library\/\">FreeFixer library<\/a>. One of the new files was <a href=\"\/library\/file\/FlowSurf.dll-113495\/\">FlowSurf.dll<\/a>, which currently only Comodo picks up as\u00a0<strong>Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK<\/strong>. The description, &#8220;<strong>FlowSurf toolbar<\/strong>&#8221; indicates that it is part of an Internet Explorer toolbar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll-anti-virus-report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-241\" title=\"flowsurf toolbar - flowsurf.dll anti-virus report\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll-anti-virus-report.png\" alt=\"flowsurf.dll-anti-virus-report\" width=\"697\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll-anti-virus-report.png 697w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll-anti-virus-report-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if <strong>flowsurf.dll<\/strong> is part of the <strong>FlowSurf<\/strong> software distributed from flowsurf dot net. I tried out that download which installed into Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-240\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" title=\"FlowSurf 1.0 in Firefox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-firefox.png\" alt=\"flowsurf 1.0 in Firefox\" width=\"613\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-firefox.png 613w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-firefox-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>FlowSurf<\/strong> EULA gives more details on the software:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(a) interacts with your Internet browser to create editable, virtual layers that can alter the appearance of underlying Internet websites, as they appear on your computer only (the \u201cFlowSurf Apps Add-On\u201d); (b) incorporates the FlowSurf Apps \u201cFlowSurf\u201d search enhancer on each new web page that is spawned when you open a new Internet browser session (\u201cFlowSurf\u201d); and (c) displays featured FlowSurf search results at the top of the search results page. Where you conduct a search using FlowSurf, you will be showed search results generated by a third party search engine provider as designated by FlowSurf Apps or, where permitted, as selected by you (\u201cThird Party Search Providers\u201d).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to remove <strong>FlowSurf<\/strong>, you can do so using <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Select <strong>fsupd.exe<\/strong> and <strong>flowsurf.dll<\/strong> for removal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-fsupd.exe_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-fsupd.exe_.png\" alt=\"Fsupd.exe - FlowSurf\" width=\"782\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-fsupd.exe_.png 782w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf-fsupd.exe_-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll_.png\" alt=\"flowsurf.dll\" width=\"787\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll_.png 787w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/flowsurf.dll_-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you remove <strong>FlowSurf<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>How did you get <strong>FlowSurf<\/strong> on your machine? Please share by posting a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was reviewing the new files added into the FreeFixer library. One of the new files was FlowSurf.dll, which currently only Comodo picks up as\u00a0Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK. The description, &#8220;FlowSurf toolbar&#8221; indicates that it is part of an Internet Explorer toolbar. It&#8217;s unclear if flowsurf.dll is part of the FlowSurf software distributed from flowsurf dot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-flowsurf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is FlowSurf &#8211; FlowSurf 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":[16],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}