{"id":3827,"date":"2015-01-12T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:06","slug":"remove-websize-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-websize-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove WebSize Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. I was reviewing some of the files added to the FreeFixer database, and found something called\u00a0<strong>WebSize<\/strong>? WebSize is yet another variant of <strong>BrowseFox.<\/strong>\u00a0The WebSize removal is pretty easy. Just select the files that are digitally signed by WebSize\u00a0in FreeFixer and the problem will be gone.<\/p>\n<p>So what does\u00a0<a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>\u00a0say about the file?\u00a019 of the anti-malware scanners detected the file. The WebSize files are detected as <strong>PUA.BrowseFox!<\/strong> by Agnitum, <strong>Adware\/BrowseFox.A.1227<\/strong> by Avira, <strong>Tool.NetFilter.313<\/strong> by DrWeb and <strong>AdWare.Win64.Yotoon<\/strong> by VBA32.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WebSize-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3828\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WebSize-virustotal.png\" alt=\"WebSize virustotal\" width=\"683\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WebSize-virustotal.png 683w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WebSize-virustotal-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Do you also have WebSize on your computer? Any idea how it was installed? Please share by posting a comment. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this useful and thanks you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. I was reviewing some of the files added to the FreeFixer database, and found something called\u00a0WebSize? WebSize is yet another variant of BrowseFox.\u00a0The WebSize removal is pretty easy. Just select the files that are digitally signed by WebSize\u00a0in FreeFixer and the problem will be gone. So what does\u00a0VirusTotal\u00a0say about the file?\u00a019 of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-websize-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove WebSize 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\/3827"}],"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=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}