{"id":5175,"date":"2015-03-04T22:53:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T22:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:58:37","slug":"remove-air-globe-air-globe-ads-removal-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-air-globe-air-globe-ads-removal-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Air Globe &#8211; &#8220;Air Globe Ads&#8221; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Hope you are doing ok. Tonight I wanted to talk about an <strong>adware<\/strong> called <strong>Air Globe<\/strong> and give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. Air Globe seems to be a variant of <strong>BrowseFox<\/strong> that I&#8217;ve written about numerous times before. If the Air Globe adware is installed on your machine, you will see ads labeled &#8220;<strong>Air Globe Ads&#8221;<\/strong> appearing while browsing the web.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-Ads1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-Ads1.png\" alt=\"Air Globe Ads\" width=\"119\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Air Globe in Firefox&#8217;s add-on list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-firefox.png\" alt=\"Air Globe firefox\" width=\"561\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-firefox.png 561w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-firefox-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may also see connections to \u00a0<strong>apiairglobeappco-a.akamaihd.net<\/strong>, in your network log or in your browser&#8217;s status bar.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll show how to remove Air Globe in this blog post with the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did Air Globe install on your machine? It was probably <strong>bundled<\/strong> with some download that you installed recently. Bundling means that software is included in other software&#8217;s installers. The following screenshot shows how Air Globe was disclosed when I found it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-Installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-Installer.png\" alt=\"Air Globe Installer\" width=\"583\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-Installer.png 583w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Air-Globe-Installer-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual when I test some new bundled software 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> to test if the anti-virus programs there find something suspicious. Of the 57 anti-virus scanners, 10 detected the file. The Air Globe files are detected as <strong>W32\/S-f64f6ec1!Eldorado<\/strong> by Cyren, <strong>a variant of Win32\/BrowseFox.AE potentially unwanted<\/strong> by ESET-NOD32, <strong>AdWare\/SwiftBrowse.dxt<\/strong> by Jiangmin, <strong>Trojan.Win32.Yontoo.dnkubo<\/strong> by NANO-Antivirus and <strong>AdWare.MSIL.Agent<\/strong> by VBA32.<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do to <strong>remove Air Globe<\/strong> is to check the Air Globe files in the scan result and click the Fix button. You might have to restart your computer to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-Ads-Firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-Ads-Firefox.png\" alt=\"Remove Air Globe Ads Firefox\" width=\"459\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-Ads-Firefox.png 459w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-Ads-Firefox-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-IE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-IE.png\" alt=\"Remove Air Globe IE\" width=\"604\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-IE.png 699w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Remove-Air-Globe-IE-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you remove the Air Globe adware.<\/p>\n<p>Do you also have Air Globe on your machine? Any idea how it was installed? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Hope you are doing ok. Tonight I wanted to talk about an adware called Air Globe and give you some removal instructions. Air Globe seems to be a variant of BrowseFox that I&#8217;ve written about numerous times before. If the Air Globe adware is installed on your machine, you will see ads labeled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-air-globe-air-globe-ads-removal-instructions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove Air Globe &#8211; &#8220;Air Globe Ads&#8221; 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],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175"}],"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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}