{"id":760,"date":"2014-06-07T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=760"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:51","slug":"remove-bellaphant-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-bellaphant-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove Bellaphant Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found another adware variant called <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> today. It was bundled with a download called MediaFinder. Here&#8217;s how <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> is disclosed in the MediaFinder installer:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-media-finder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-766 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-media-finder.png\" alt=\"Bellaphant is bundled with Media Finder\" width=\"662\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-media-finder.png 662w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-media-finder-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the disclosure, Bellaphant<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>provides special offers and coupons, website ratings and reviews, multi-site searching, comparison shopping and related search results. Additional features may be auto-enabled after installing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>13 of the 51 anti-virus programs are clearly aware of \u00a0the <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> adware, as you can see in the scan result from VirusTotal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/Bellaphantbho.dll-129081\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-765 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-virustotal.png\" alt=\"Bellaphant VirusTotal scan result\" width=\"727\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-virustotal.png 727w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-virustotal-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> on your machine you can see it in Mozilla Firefox&#8217; and Internet Explorer&#8217;s Add-Ons menu:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-firefox-addon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-763 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-firefox-addon.png\" alt=\"bellaphant appears as a firefox addon\" width=\"551\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-firefox-addon.png 551w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-firefox-addon-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-internet-explorer-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-764 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-internet-explorer-add-on.png\" alt=\"bellaphant also appears as an Internet Explorer add-on\" width=\"648\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-internet-explorer-add-on.png 648w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-internet-explorer-add-on-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-internet-explorer-add-on-604x270.png 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to remove <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>, you can just check the Mozilla Firefox Extension and the Internet Exlorer browser helper object called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/Bellaphantbho.dll-129081\/\">bellaphantbho.dll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-ff-ext.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-762 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-ff-ext.png\" alt=\"bellaphant in FreeFixer\" width=\"787\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-ff-ext.png 787w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-ff-ext-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-bho.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-761 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-bho.png\" alt=\"Select Bellaphantbho.dll to remove Bellaphant from Internet Explorer\" width=\"787\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-bho.png 787w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bellaphant-bho-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> bundled with MediaFinder. How did you get <strong>Bellaphant<\/strong> on your machine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found another adware variant called Bellaphant today. It was bundled with a download called MediaFinder. Here&#8217;s how Bellaphant is disclosed in the MediaFinder installer: According to the disclosure, Bellaphant provides special offers and coupons, website ratings and reviews, multi-site searching, comparison shopping and related search results. 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