How To Remove feed.chunckapp.com From Mac System

Proper Guide To Delete feed.chunckapp.com From PC

feed.chunckapp.com is a malicious web domain that has been categorized by security experts as a browser hijacker program. It mainly targets Mac computers and is able to infiltrate the machine secretly without being noticed by the users. As soon as this potentially unwanted program sneaks into your device, it makes several unexpected changes to your default browser’ settings and sets its own perilous domain as the new home page, new tab page and search engine addresses without even asking for your permission. Grabbing full control over the entire browser, this perilous hijacker starts flooding your system screen with annoying ads and pop-ups and makes it very difficult for you to surf the web efficiently like before.

feed.chunckapp.com displays attractive deals, offers, coupons, banners, discounts etc. and tries to make you click on them in order to earn revenues via pay-per-click mechanism. Tapping upon these adverts though can be very risky for your PC’s security as they might include spiteful links and redirect you to scamming, phishing or even malware-laden sites that are filled with malicious contents. You might be rerouted to domains where several fake security alerts are displayed claiming that some issues have been detected in your computer and then forces you to buy and install a rogue application in order to get rid of the issue. And thus, avoid interacting with these adverts and try to remove feed.chunckapp.com from the machine as soon as possible.

Ways To Spread feed.chunckapp.com:

Such types of hijacking programs generally get into the PCs via malicious advertisements that users accidentally or intentionally click. It also manages to sneak into the machine during download and installations of third-party programs. In this case, authors of such PUPs spread them using a precarious marketing tactic called “bundling” in which, multiple products are added as additional offers in one package with a free software. When you download and install the app using “Quick” or “Recommended” mode set, there is huge possibility that you will end up with bringing such adware or hijacker in the system as well along with the main program.

How To Prevent The PUP Intrusion?

In order to stay away from feed.chunckapp.com or other similar infections, you should avoid downloading applications via unreliable sites, third-party downloaders, peer-to-peer networks, installers and so on. Always choose Custom or Advanced configuration setting to install the program where you can take full control over the incoming download and deselect the tools that look suspicious. Never click on suspicious ads that show offers or deals as they might include vicious links and redirect you to highly dangerous web pages that are fully occupied with malicious contents. Additionally, if you are a regular Internet user, it is highly important for you to use a powerful anti-malware program and keep updating it from time to time.

Summarize Information

Name- feed.chunckapp.com

Category- Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program, Mac virus

Description- Aims to redirect users to sponsored websites, promote third-party products, services and programs and generate Online profits for the creators, also tries to gather users’ sensitive data for advertising purpose.

Symptoms- Modifications in default browser as well as system’s settings, Slowness of system’s performance, fake error messages, security alerts and so on.

Distribution- Freeware and shareware downloads, malicious ads or hyperlinks, P2P file sharing, and many more.

Removal- Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

Other Malevolent Acts of feed.chunckapp.com:

feed.chunckapp.com keeps performing evil activities in the background which consumes enormous amount of memory resources and drags down the overall PC performance severely. Due to this, machine starts responding slower than ever before and takes more than usual time to complete any task. This hazardous threat monitors your web activities such as your search queries, pages viewed, links opened etc. and gathers important information regarding your interests and needs which is utilized by the scammers for the advertisement campaign. Furthermore, it can also steal your personal data relating to banking and other financial details that can be misused by the criminals for generating illicit revenues and hence, it’s a big threat for your privacy too. And so, to prevent all these threats from being occurred, you must delete feed.chunckapp.com from the PC quickly.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove feed.chunckapp.com:

Remove the related items of feed.chunckapp.com using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing feed.chunckapp.com issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (feed.chunckapp.com) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to feed.chunckapp.com removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to feed.chunckapp.com still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove feed.chunckapp.com plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in feed.chunckapp.com removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete feed.chunckapp.com (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.