{"id":6241,"date":"2015-05-25T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2015-05-25T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T11:48:24","slug":"remove-fruit-basket-fruitbasket-removal-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-fruit-basket-fruitbasket-removal-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Fruit Basket &#8211; FruitBasket Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to write a short blog post before going back to programming. As usual I was looking around on the Internet to see what is being bundled with some software downloads. This time I found something called <strong>Fruit Basket<\/strong>. Fruit Basket seems to be a variant of <strong>BrowseFox<\/strong> that I blogged about previously. If Fruit Basket is installed and running on your computer, you will see a new add-on called FruitBasket added into Firefox and Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Fruit-Basket-firefox-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Fruit-Basket-firefox-add-on.png\" alt=\"Fruit Basket firefox add-on\" width=\"496\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Fruit-Basket-firefox-add-on.png 496w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Fruit-Basket-firefox-add-on-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see anything added into Google Chrome. Did FruitBasket install into Chrome on your machine?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll show how to remove Fruit Basket in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n<p>Fruit Basket is <strong>bundled<\/strong> in other software&#8217;s installers.<\/p>\n<p>When I stumble upon some new bundled software I normally upload 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 verify if the anti-malware scanners there detect anything interesting. 20 of the scanners detected the file. Some of the detection names for Fruit Basket are ADWARE\/BrowseFox.Gen2, W32\/S-f64f6ec1!Eldorado, Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey, Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.11547 and AdWare.MSIL.Agent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FruitBasket-anti-virus-report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FruitBasket-anti-virus-report.png\" alt=\"FruitBasket anti-virus report\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FruitBasket-anti-virus-report.png 800w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FruitBasket-anti-virus-report-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Removing Fruit Basket<\/strong> is straightforward with <a title=\"The freeware FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the Fruit Basket files\/settings for removal and then click the Fix button and the problem will be solved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-FruitBasket-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-FruitBasket-firefox.png\" alt=\"remove FruitBasket firefox\" width=\"479\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-FruitBasket-firefox.png 479w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-FruitBasket-firefox-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-Fruit-Basket-ie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-Fruit-Basket-ie.png\" alt=\"remove Fruit Basket ie\" width=\"681\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-Fruit-Basket-ie.png 681w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/remove-Fruit-Basket-ie-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you remove the Fruit Basket adware.<\/p>\n<p>Do you also have Fruit Basket on your machine? Any idea how it installed? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading and welcome back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to write a short blog post before going back to programming. As usual I was looking around on the Internet to see what is being bundled with some software downloads. This time I found something called Fruit Basket. Fruit Basket seems to be a variant of BrowseFox that I blogged about previously. 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