Should I remove Social Privacy?

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from SocialPrivacy.org

Remove Social Privacy

Social Privacy is a potentially unwanted web browser extension that is designed to deliver search-based hijacking/injection as well as contextual advertising. The program does this by modifying the user's home and search page in order to monetize a user's search activities. By installing a Browser Helper Object (BHO) in Internet Explorer, the extension has the ability to monitor and track a user web browsing activities and display various banner and link-context ads in addition to its search redirection.

From the EULA: "Social Privacy will also display search results from some of your favorite sites on the web directly in the window you are viewing without detracting from your interaction on sites. For example, Social Privacy passes the search words you type on search engines through valued partners like eBay, PriceGrabber and Yahoo to help bring search results from their sites which improves the relevancy of results, offers, and ads presented to you. This does not alter the search results provided by your search provider, but will give you other options. In order to keep our apps free of any service charges, we will show relevant and minimal ads when displaying results from search."

Social Privacy DNS is included with the Social Privacy software which will modify the user's DNS settings. - EULA : "Redirect you from Non-Existent Domains (where no domain exists) and from “typo squatting” domains"

The software has also been known as Perk Desktop Rewards.

It is typically bundled through adware bundles on web sites such as download.download-new.com, emergency-browser-update.info, fusioninstall.com and many other download portals that use 3rd party download managers.

URL: www.socialprivacy.org

Help link: www.socialprivacy.org/sp/terms

License: View the full license agreement (EULA) for Social Privacy

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\social privacy

Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Social Privacy\uninstall.exe

Estimated size: 867.74 KB

1. 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.
2. When you find the program Social Privacy, 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).
3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Social Privacy.
4. 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.

1. Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
2. 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.
3. The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
2. To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
3. When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.

1. Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Restart Google Chrome.

OS VERSIONS Win 7 (SP1) 65% Win Vista 1%

USER ACTIONS Uninstall it 80% Keep it 20%

GLOBAL RANK #12,059

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?

United States	98.53%
Iran	0.34%
Canada	0.23%
MA	0.11%
South Africa	0.11%
India	0.11%
New Zealand	0.11%
Japan	0.11%
Italy	0.11%
Malaysia	0.11%
United Kingdom	0.11%

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?

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