FreeManualsIndex Toolbar Removal Guide

FreeManualsIndex Toolbar is a piece of software that should enable users to find and download free manuals from the web. Even though this application can be promoted on third-party websites, its official source is free.freemanualsindex.com/index.jhtml. To find out more about this program, specialists working at 411-spyware.com have decided to visit its official web page. It has become immediately clear that FreeManualsIndex Toolbar does not find manuals for users itself. Instead of doing that, it provides users with buttons leading to third-party websites. As it is said on the official website of FreeManualsIndex Toolbar, it does not have any “affiliation, relationship or partnership” with brands whose manuals websites users are taken to contain. To be frank, it is very likely that it is not associated with these third-party websites too. Buttons (they can be found on the website set by the toolbar) leading to third-websites is not the only way to access them. There is no doubt that users could reach those web pages containing manuals without the help of FreeManualsIndex Toolbar too. Therefore, in the opinion of our researchers, it is not worth keeping FreeManualsIndex Toolbar installed just because of that, especially when it has been placed into the category of potentially unwanted programs. What this suggests is that this program might act somehow undesirably. We will elaborate further in this article.

Once FreeManualsIndex Toolbar is installed on the system, it sets its own website. It will be shown to you when you open any browser. This website has a search box and quick access buttons leading to third-party websites. Since the search box does not look harmful at all, and there is a tag “enhanced by Google”, users tend to use it as a tool for finding the information on the web. It is not at all surprising that it becomes their main search tool because they see it in front of their eyes every day. The MyWay search tool cannot be called dangerous, but, according to our researchers, there is still a possibility that untrustworthy search results will be displayed to users. Specialists call search results unreliable when they contain links leading to third-party websites. In other words, they are shown just to promote third-party websites, and, in most cases, they do not have anything in common with the entered search query. We do not say that these untrustworthy links are always there, but you should be aware of the fact that they might be shown to you.

Specialists do not think that this Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. product can be fully trusted also because it, as it is said in its Privacy Policy, can collect personal information about users. It is called in this document as “the information that might identify you.” This is definitely not the only type of information this Mindspark product records. It has been found that it is also interested in the so-called anonymous information which consists of such details as clicks on links, login times, page views, etc. The search queries you enter into the search box might be recorded too, so do not provide anything personal. FreeManualsIndex Toolbar is not as reliable as it might seem, so keeping it installed is not recommended. Of course, this potentially unwanted program is not as dangerous as the real malware, but it might still cause problems, as has been told in this report.

One of the main reasons FreeManualsIndex Toolbar is called a potentially unwanted program is its distribution. It is evident that it usually travels bundled with free software and thus often enters computers unnoticed. Since this toolbar is not the only product of the Mindspark company, a similar toolbar might be installed on your computer together with free applications from the web once again in the future. Of course, the entrance of undesirable software can be prevented rather easily. A user just needs to install a security tool and enable it on his/her computer.

It takes some time to delete FreeManualsIndex Toolbar from browsers because this browser plugin has to be erased from every browser separately. If you are an Internet Explorer user, you can remove this untrustworthy software through Control Panel. In case you use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, you could get rid of the browser plugin manually only by deleting its extensions from these browsers. Find instructions that will guide you through the removal process below this article or, alternatively, use an automated malware remover.

How to delete FreeManualsIndex Toolbar

Windows XP

1. Click the Start button to open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and then open Add or Remove Programs.
3. Find the undesirable application and select it.
4. Click the Remove button.

Windows 7/Vista

1. Click the button in the bottom-left corner to open the Start menu.
2. Open Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a program to see a list of applications installed.
4. Select the undesirable program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Windows 8/8.1/10

1. Press Win+R simultaneously.
2. Enter Control Panel in the box and click OK.
3. Click Uninstall a program.
4. Select the undesirable program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Click the menu button (top-right corner).
3. Select Add-ons.
4. Select Extensions.
5. Select the add-on you wish to disable.
6. Click the Disable/Remove button.

Google Chrome

1. Launch Google Chrome.
2. Click the menu button (top-right corner).
3. Select More tools.
4. Click Extensions.
5. Click the recycle bin icon next to the extension.
6. Click Remove.