Should I remove Findwide Toolbar?
What percent of users and experts removed it?
86% remove it14% keep it
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #7,914
United States Rank #7,584
Reach 0.0513%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 11.28 days
332.70 days >
Average installed length: 174.81 days
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Findwide Toolbar
from FindWide
What is Findwide Toolbar?
This is a potentially unwanted web browser toolbar that delivers ads to the user's web browser including coupons, deals, or special offers from select merchants and stores. "When you visit a website of a merchant or affiliate store that participates in the coupon program, FindWide Deals is designed to recognize the website to determine whether there are coupons, deals, or special offers available. If there are applicable coupons, deals, or special offers available that FindWide Deals recognizes, FindWide Deals will display an alert with the coupons."
From the EULA: "By accessing the Sites and downloading the Software, you hereby grant the Company permission to display promotional information, advertisements, and offers for third-party products, offers or services (collectively “Advertisements”) from Company’s advertising partners (collectively “Partners”). The Advertisements may include, without limitation, content, offers for products or services, data, links, articles, graphic or video messages, text, software, music, sound, graphics or other materials or services. The timing, frequency, placement, and extent of the Advertisements changes are determined in Company’s sole discretion."
About (from FindWide)
Each search engine has its own method of searching and each will return different results. Findwide.com looks at all of them, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and revals them to you. In the end, you get a list of results more complete than using any one search engine alone.
Overview
- Malware detected in the program
- Integrates into the web browser
- Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
- Injects advertisements unassociated with the underlying web page
- The experts agree, you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Findwide Toolbar.
TNT2User.exe (ba2f99b69769c37a3fba7d6b38a9df4a) has been flagged by the following 22 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
Antiy-AVL |
1.0.0.1 |
RiskWare[WebToolbar]/Win32.Agent.bgk |
AVG |
2016.0.3015 |
Generic |
AVware |
1.5.0.21 |
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT |
Baidu-International |
4.0.3.15816 |
PUA.Win32.TNT2.A |
Bkav FE |
1.3.0.6379 |
W32.HfsAdware |
Dr.Web |
9.0.0.0228 |
Adware.Toolbar.602 |
ESET-NOD32 |
9.11668 |
a variant of Win32/Toolbar.TNT2.A potentially unwanted |
Fortinet FortiGate |
8/16/2015 |
Riskware/Agent |
G Data |
15.8.25 |
Win32.Application.Agent.DZ8N4T |
K7 AntiVirus |
13.204.15997 |
Adware |
K7GW |
13.204.15999 |
Adware ( 004b966a1 ) |
Kaspersky |
14.0.0.1571 |
not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.Agent |
McAfee |
5600.6671 |
Artemis!BA2F99B69769 |
McAfee-GW-Edition |
7.6671 |
Artemis!PUP |
Panda Antivirus |
15.08.16.06 |
PUP/TNT2Toolbar |
Qihoo-360 |
1.0.0.1015 |
Win32/Virus.WebToolbar.d46 |
Sophos |
4.98 |
Generic PUA HP |
Symantec |
8/16/2015 rev. 1 |
Trojan.Gen |
Trend Micro |
10.465.16 |
TROJ_GEN.R0E2C0OE915 |
TrendMicro-HouseCall |
7.2.228 |
TROJ_GEN.R0E2C0OE915 |
VIPRE Antivirus |
40458 |
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT |
Zillya |
2.0.0.2187 |
Adware.Agent.Win32.54555 |
npTNT2.dll (2ed84ecbf2b08b0436ee1a31c9de251e) has been flagged by the following 5 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
Baidu-International |
3.5.1.41473 |
PUA.Win32.TNT2.BH |
ESET-NOD32 |
10714 |
a variant of Win32/Toolbar.TNT2.H |
McAfee |
6.0.5.614 |
Artemis!2ED84ECBF2B0 |
McAfee-GW-Edition |
v2014.2 |
Artemis |
TrendMicro-HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0801 |
IEToolbar.dll (5167111d6b94f446947ff3ecf65c7e9a) has been flagged by the following 2 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
Baidu-International |
3.5.1.41473 |
PUA.Win32.TNT2.bB |
ESET-NOD32 |
10321 |
a variant of Win32/Toolbar.TNT2.B |
View all 29 all detections
Findwide Toolbar has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.
Program details
Displayed publisher: Freshy
URL: search.findwide.com
Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\tnt2\2.0.0.1663
Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\TNT2\2.0.0.1663\TNT2User.exe" /UNINSTALL PARTNER=10723
Estimated size: 3.63 MB
Files installed by Findwide Toolbar
Program module: | IEToolbar.dll |
Name: | Freshy.com Toolbar |
Path: | C:\users\user\appdata\local\tnt2\2.0.0.1663\IEToolbar.dll |
MD5: | 2a0fadba24e9cc55e83e61580611041b |
Additional files:
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npTNT2Ghost.dll - npAPI Ghost Plugin
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IEToolbar.dll - Findwide Toolbar
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IEToolbar64.dll
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passport.dll
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passport64.dll
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npTNT2.dll - npAPI Plugin
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hmac.1.dll - TNT2
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iestage2.1.dll
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log.dll
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regsvr.1.dll
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sqlite.1.dll
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UninstallDlg.1.dll
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untar.1.dll
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zipunzip.1.dll
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(Malware detected) TNT2User.exe
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GameConsole.exe
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GameEngine.dll
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MinecraftShims64.dll
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progress.1.dll
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TNT2UserPS.dll
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TNT2UserPS64.dll
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TntMagicDel.dll
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UnInjLib.dll
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UnInjLib64.dll
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chromeinst.1.dll
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tnt2chrome.dll
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tnt2chrome64.dll
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ppshim.dll
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ppTNT2.dll
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tntmoz.xpi
Behaviors exhibited
2 Google Chrome Plugins
- npTNT2.dll is loaded in the Google Chrome web browser as 'npTNT2.dll'.
- npTNT2Ghost.dll is loaded in the Google Chrome web browser as 'npTNT2ghost.dll'.
2 Mozilla Plugins
- npTNT2.dll is loaded into Mozilla Firefox under the product name '@tnt2npapi.com/Plugin' with a plugin key of '@tnt2npapi.com/Plugin'.
- npTNT2Ghost.dll is loaded into Mozilla Firefox under the product name '@tnt2ghost.com/Plugin' with a plugin key of '@tnt2ghost.com/Plugin'.
Windows Firewall Allowed Program
- TNT2User.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\TNT2\2.0.0.1991\TNT2User.exe'.
How do I remove Findwide Toolbar?
You can uninstall Findwide Toolbar from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Findwide Toolbar, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Findwide Toolbar.
- If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.
How do I reset my web browser?
If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Findwide Toolbar you can restore them to their previous default settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
- Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
- The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.
Mozilla Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
- To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
- When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.
Google Chrome
- Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
- Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
- When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
- Restart Google Chrome.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 51%
Win Vista 0%
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HOW DOES IT RUN?
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Plugs into Mozilla Firefox
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 86%
Keep it 14%
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 |
56.17% |
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Windows 10 |
38.10% |
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Windows XP |
3.55% |
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Windows Vista |
2.17% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
20.36% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.66% |
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Windows 8.1 |
15.49% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
11.92% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro |
4.67% |
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Windows 8.1 Single Langua... |
3.77% |
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Geography
46.03% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
United States |
46.03% |
MA |
3.03% |
DZ |
2.62% |
India |
1.96% |
Canada |
1.88% |
Australia |
1.72% |
Indonesia |
1.72% |
Netherlands |
1.64% |
Germany |
1.55% |
Philippines |
1.47% |
France |
1.31% |
Ecuador |
1.31% |
IQ |
1.31% |
Malaysia |
1.31% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard |
30.30% |
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Dell |
22.51% |
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Acer |
16.74% |
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Toshiba |
9.52% |
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ASUS |
7.36% |
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Lenovo |
6.20% |
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GIGABYTE |
4.04% |
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Samsung |
2.74% |
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Intel |
0.58% |
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Common models |
HP 15 Notebook PC |
3.92% |
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HP 2000 Notebook PC |
3.92% |
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HP Pavilion 15 Notebook P... |
3.92% |
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Dell Inspiron 3521 |
3.27% |
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HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... |
3.27% |
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Dell Inspiron N5110 |
2.29% |
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