{"id":4544,"date":"2015-02-07T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:00:38","slug":"how-to-remove-topictron-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-topictron-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove TopicTron Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there. Hope you are having a nice weekend. Found another <strong>adware<\/strong> called <strong>TopicTron<\/strong> right now while reviewing some files recently submitted to the FreeFixer database. TopicTron appears to be a variant of <strong>BrowseFox<\/strong> that I&#8217;ve written about before. Since I&#8217;ve not tested TopicTron myself, I&#8217;m not sure what happens when it is installed, but I assume it will show some ads, labelled &#8220;TopicTron Ads&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how TopicTron got onto your computer? Please let me know. I guess it was bundled with some free download. I&#8217;d like to install it on my lab machine and test it myself.<\/p>\n<p>The\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>\u00a0is clearly detecting TopicTron. 24 of the anti-malware scanners detected the file. Some of the detection names for TopicTron are Adware.SwiftBrowse.CH, Adware.BrowseFox\/Variant, HS_BROWSEFOX.SM and Adware.Yotoon.Win64.14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TopicTron-anti-virus-report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TopicTron-anti-virus-report.png\" alt=\"TopicTron anti-virus report\" width=\"765\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TopicTron-anti-virus-report.png 765w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TopicTron-anti-virus-report-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d like to <strong>remove TopicTron<\/strong>, and that&#8217;s easy with <a title=\"The freeware FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the files digitally signed by &#8220;TopicTron&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you with the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there. Hope you are having a nice weekend. Found another adware called TopicTron right now while reviewing some files recently submitted to the FreeFixer database. TopicTron appears to be a variant of BrowseFox that I&#8217;ve written about before. Since I&#8217;ve not tested TopicTron myself, I&#8217;m not sure what happens when it is installed, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-topictron-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Remove TopicTron 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],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544"}],"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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}