{"id":4192,"date":"2015-02-01T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2015-02-01T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T12:52:49","slug":"remove-the-positive-finds-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-the-positive-finds-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove The Positive Finds Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found another bundled program called &#8220;<strong>Positive Finds<\/strong>&#8220;. If you are wondering where it came from, it was probably bundled with some free download.\u00a0In my case it was bundled with a program that extracts RAR files. Currently, no anti-virus program detected it when I uploaded it to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-firefox.png\" alt=\"positive find firefox\" width=\"584\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-firefox.png 584w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-firefox-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The software is clearly adware as explained in the EULA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-eula-adware.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-eula-adware.png\" alt=\"positive find eula adware\" width=\"892\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-eula-adware.png 892w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-find-eula-adware-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can remove Positive Finds from the Windows Control Panel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall.png\" alt=\"Positive Finds uninstall\" width=\"657\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall.png 657w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-uninstall-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that does not work, just select the files in FreeFixer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-finds-internet-explorer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-finds-internet-explorer.png\" alt=\"positive finds internet explorer\" width=\"763\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-finds-internet-explorer.png 763w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/positive-finds-internet-explorer-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-firefox-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-firefox-remove.png\" alt=\"Positive Finds firefox remove\" width=\"509\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-firefox-remove.png 509w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Positive-Finds-firefox-remove-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found another bundled program called &#8220;Positive Finds&#8220;. If you are wondering where it came from, it was probably bundled with some free download.\u00a0In my case it was bundled with a program that extracts RAR files. Currently, no anti-virus program detected it when I uploaded it to VirusTotal. The software is clearly adware as explained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-the-positive-finds-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Remove The Positive Finds Adware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192"}],"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=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}