What is Apple.com-prizes.com?
Apple.com-prizes.com is a browser hijacker which comes from free applications such as videos, free utilities which you download from Internet. Once the malicious software is agreed to be installed onto computer, this browser redirect virus also starts its installation without permission. so with that being said, computer users should always remember that download freewares or free applications from Internet is the most common way for your computer to be infected with malwares. The Advanced or Custom installation should be always the first choice and do not select anything that is not familiar. It may keep modifying explorer homepage to its URL once the computer browser is attacked. http://Fbnewstoday.com/ may appear to interrupt users when they open “Internet option”. Many inexperienced users can not realize that this is a fake and malicious search engine which seems to offer users about web, image, videos, news, and many others. When users utilize this bogus search engine to look for information, only receive unreliable sea
rch results provided by this infection that are filled with advertisements and sponsored links.
If this hijacker has not entered your computer yet, you should watch out your computer browser. Do not be cheated by its clean and pure appearance as it usually disguises itself as a legitimate site. But actually it is a kind of browser infection which can usually get onto your computer via bundling with unknown freeware. When you tempt to download certain unfriendly programs from suspicious resources online, this hijacker will come together. After it is successful in invading your computer, it can damage computer browser immediately. The system resources will be totally used up which will result in a slow computer performance. Here are both automatic and manual removal processes to help you get rid of this pop up efficiently.
What damage will it cause?
First of all, it is able to display advertisements (pop-ups and banners). When you click into the ads, you will visit certain unknown domain with information that is probably useless and illegal. And to stop this Apple.com-prizes.com from Task Manager doesn’t help stop ads from popping out because it is able to run in the background.
Second of all, junk files will be created during Apple.com-prizes.com’s installation as well as during the process it sends out ads. The longer it stays in your computer, the more junk files it produces. Gradually, computer runs slower and it takes you a million years to run a program.
Third of all, it has the ability to record your online activities, such as websites you visited days ago, accounts and passwords you use, files in your disks etc. This can be a potential threat to your personal data. And with the Internet connected, your personal data may be secretly acquired by hackers and cyber criminals for vicious purposes.
How to remove computer virus, malware, spyware
Apple.com-prizes.com removal Instructions
Automatic Removal (Using SpyHunter)(Download Tools Now)
Please be aware that manual removal is a rather risky and complex process that requires a high level of computer troubleshooting skills. So it is only recommended to advanced PC users. If you are an average PC user, we sincerely recommend you to download SpyHunter on your computer and use it to remove Apple.com-prizes.com. It is a professional and powerful removal tool which has the ability to detect and remove all types of unwanted programs and threats from your computer without causing any side effect. It can deeply scan your computer to find out and delete the browser hijacker automatically within a few minutes. Please follow the below steps to download it on your computer.
Step 1: Download SpyHunter on your computer by clicking on the below button.
Step 2: Install it on your computer by following the installation wizard. When you finish the installation, launch the removal tool to perform a full system scan to find out the threat.
Step 3: When the scan finishes, check the scan result and then click the Remove button to delete all the detected threats from your computer.
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Method 2. Manually remove Apple.com-prizes.com from your computer.
Sometimes, you can restore the browser settings which are set by potentially unwanted programs back to the previous state you wish manually. Uninstalling the relevant programs and disable additional browser toolbars or extensions, changing the homepage and search engine can often fix browser hijacking issues. Follow the guide below and you will be able to get rid of the hijacker.
Uninstall Mindspark products or relevant programs via Control Panel
Windows 8/8.1
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In the Programs and Features window, make sure that program you wish to remove is selected and then click Uninstall button.
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Windows 7/Vista
Click on Start button, click on Control Panel and then click on Uninstall a Program under Programs.
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Search for and click on the Mindspark application or relevant program and click on Uninstall button.
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Windows XP
Click on Start button, go to Control Panel and then double click on Add/Remove Programs. From the list of all programs installed on your system, select the program associated with the hijacker and click on Uninstall/Change button.
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Remove Apple.com-prizes.com from Internet Explorer
Step1. Remove the MyWay New Tab extension from IE
Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the IE browser or click on Tools and then click on Manage add-ons.
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Click on Toolbars and Extensions on the left and search for the add-on you want to delete and click Remove button.
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(Please note that the extensions are not listed under the MyWay brand and they could be under the brand name of the extension, such as Filmfanatic, FromDocToPDF and Weatherblink, that is installed on your computer. This applies to Firefox add-ons and Chrome extension which you need to remove as mentioned below.)
Step2. Remove MyWay homepage from IE
Click on the gear button/Tools and then click on Internet Options.
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In the General tab, delete Apple.com-prizes.com from the Home page section and then type the address of the site you prefer, such as www.google.com into the box.
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Click Apply button and save the changes and then click on OK button.
Step3. Disable the unwanted search engine in IE
Click on the gear icon/Tools and click on Manage add-ons, click on Search Provides under Add-on Types in the left, select the provider you don’t want and click Remove. If you want to set Google as your default search engine, highlight it and then click on Set as default button.
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Delete Apple.com-prizes.com from Google Chrome
Step1. Remove MyWay New tab from Chrome browser
Click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome button at the top right corner, click on More tools and then click on Extensions.
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From the list of installed extensions, search for the extension you wish to remove and click on the trashcan icon to delete it.
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Step2. Delete Apple.com-prizes.com homepage from Chrome
Click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome button and then click on Settings from the drop-down menu.
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In the Chrome Settings page, check Open a specified page or set of pages under Startup section and then click Set pages.
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Delete the unwanted item and type the address of the site you want in the editable field and click OK.
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Under Appearance section, check Show Home button and then click on Change.
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Type the address of the site you’d like in the editable filed next to Open this page and then click OK.
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Step3. Remove the search engine you don’t want from Chrome.
In the Chrome settings menu, locate to Search section and click on Manage search engines… button.
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In the pop-up Search engines screen, highlight the search engine you want and click on Make Default. Locate the unwanted search engine and click X button to remove it then click Done button.
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Clean up Apple.com-prizes.com from Mozilla Firefox
Step1. Remove MyWay New tab from Firefox browser
Click on button or click on Tools and then click on Add-ons from the drop-down menu.
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In the Extensions tab, search for the add-on you wish to remove and click Disable or Remove button.
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Sometimes, you are allowed to check the option that remove the MyWay home page and restore to your previous settings when the extension uninstall confirmation dialog appears. This will easily restore your homepage without letting you to manually delete the MyWay homepage from the browser. If this option doesn’t occur, follow the step below to continue.
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Step2. Delete the unwanted homepage from Firefox.
Click on button or click on Tools and then click on Options in the drop-down menu.
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In the Firefox Options page, make sure you select General tab on the left, then delete Apple.com-prizes.com and type the address of the desired site in the Home Page editable filed.
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Alternatively, you can open the website you prefer then click on Use Current Pages button to set that page as your homepage.
Step3. Remove the unwanted search engine from Firefox.
In the Firefox Options page, click on Search tab on the left and then select a desired search engine such as Google under Default Search Engine section.
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To remove the unwanted search engine, search for it under Once-click Search Engines section and select it then click Remove button to clean up it.
Summary:
Apple.com-prizes.com can do great harm to the infected computers not only from browsers, it can also corrupted the systems by helping other kinds of computer viruses to come. The infected computers can be completely messed up by this infection if users don’trealize it as a bad thing. With the help of this hijacker, cyber hackers can be able to collect personal information on the target computers so that they can abuse the information for other cybercrimes.