{"id":408,"date":"2014-05-06T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:54","slug":"freeven-pro-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/freeven-pro-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeven Pro &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you getting ads while browsing the web labeled &#8220;<strong>Click to Continue &gt; by Freeven pro 1.2<\/strong>&#8220;, like the one shown below?<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-1.2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-409\" title=\"Click to Continue by Freeven Pro 1.2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-1.2.png\" alt=\"Click to Continue by Freeven Pro 1.2\" width=\"312\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-1.2.png 312w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-1.2-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you have a piece of software called <strong>Freeven Pro<\/strong> installed on your machine. <strong>Freeven Pro<\/strong> comes bundled with various software downloads. In my case I found it while testing a non-official download of the Google Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is Freeven Pro? Obviously it&#8217;s adware since it shows advertisements. The anti-virus programs over at VirusTotal classify the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/Freeven%20pro%201.2-bho.dll-124863\/\">Freeven pro 201.2-bho.dll<\/a> file\u00a0with names such as\u00a0<strong>MultiBundle.R<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Win32.Application.Plush.B<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>AdWare.PlusHD<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>AppRider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-virustotal.png\" alt=\"Preeven Pro VirusTotal scan result\" width=\"756\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-virustotal.png 756w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-virustotal-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Removing <strong>Freeven Pro<\/strong> is pretty easy. Simply check the <strong>Freven Pro<\/strong> files for removal in <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. The screenshots below shows which files to remove:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-internet-explorer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-411\" title=\"Freeven Pro DLL in Internet Explorer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-internet-explorer.png\" alt=\"Freeven Pro DLL in Internet Explorer\" width=\"787\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-internet-explorer.png 787w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-internet-explorer-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-scheduled-tasks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-412\" title=\"Freeven Pro Scheduled Tasks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-scheduled-tasks.png\" alt=\"Freeven Pro Scheduled Tasks\" width=\"1272\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-scheduled-tasks.png 1272w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-scheduled-tasks-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-scheduled-tasks-1024x355.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1272px) 100vw, 1272px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-410\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" title=\"Freeven Pro in Firefox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-firefox.png\" alt=\"Freeven Pro in Firefox\" width=\"698\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-firefox.png 698w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/freeven-pro-firefox-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also captured a video that shows <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> in action while deleting the <strong>Freeven Pro<\/strong> files. Hope you find it useful:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cpALTQEUawA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It seems as the Freeven developers are randomizing the product name. These are the variants I&#8217;ve found so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frevens Pro 13<\/li>\n<li>Fre_Ven_s Pro 23<\/li>\n<li>Free_Ven_s_pro 25<\/li>\n<li>Frieven_s_Prox_1.8<\/li>\n<li>Fraven 1.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What variants of Freeven have you found?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you getting ads while browsing the web labeled &#8220;Click to Continue &gt; by Freeven pro 1.2&#8220;, like the one shown below? Then you have a piece of software called Freeven Pro installed on your machine. Freeven Pro comes bundled with various software downloads. In my case I found it while testing a non-official download &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/freeven-pro-removal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeven Pro &#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":[3,16],"tags":[65,66,62,63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}