How To Remove Feed Chunk

Information About Feed Chunk & Removal Assistance

The term Feed Chunk indicates to its official website url Feed.chunkapp.com, is technically a browser hijacker or a redirect virus which claims itself o be a replacement search engine and can be used as other search engine options. But, getting somehow configured on browsers as default values, it starts to bring tons of irritating push advertisements. Interacting with this website often leads you to interact with a number unfamiliar websites or pop ups or commercial banners, that may bring just hassles and nothing else. In case of infected computers, the users can notice modified browser settings in terms of homepage, new tab defaults, search engine settings, and many more. Even some unintentional browser extension or addons can be seen active whcih just brings adverts or just slow down your online sessions throughout the day.

Summarized Information About Feed Chunk

Name: Feed Chunk

Type: Adware, pop up virus

Description: Feed Chunk is identified to be another malicious malware term that can cause your browsers modified and will redirect you to numerous hectic websites throwing fake or deceptive contents, commercial banners or ads, redirects to more malicious websites, and many more.

Distribution: Suspicious websites and advertisements, malicious file downloads, freeware or shareware files, and so on.

Removal: For information on how to remove Feed Chunk safely from a machine, get through the guidelines section below

How Feed Chunk gets installed and how it impacts a machine?

In most of the instances as noticed, the term Feed Chunk is delivered through a number of possible ways or measures. And some commonly known such measures are freeware or shareware installer packages, clicking suspicious links or ads, visting some nasty online web sources, and so on. The hackers or criminals technically use software bundling, email marketing, and many other socially engineerred techniques to distribute their own created malware codes on global basis. A user must be cautious to prevent such intruders and do make sure to check advanced/custom installatin mode while installing some freebies.

So, once the malicious code related to Feed Chunk gets intruded on a targeted machine, it modifies all web browser settings like default search engine, homepage, and new tab defaults without any prior notice. Thus, every time such affected browsers are launched, the victims notice the modified values as default option, which even enforce them to surf the web through the same. Also, the SERP and other related terms may seem probably similar to legitimate search engine results, but in most of the cases, the victims are redirected to malicious or unsafe online web contents.

In addition to these, being a browser hijacker, the term Feed Chunk even keeps a keen eye over all your personal inputs, search key preferences, and many other information. These details are basically saved under logs and can be shared to creators of Feed Chunk for cyber crime purposes. In such instances, the victims can expect to face off high potential loss in real time unless the threat is completely detected and removed from compromised machine. Well, in case if your computer is infected in current scenario, we suggest you get through the guidelines section prescribed to detect and terminate Feed Chunk out of your machine completely.

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 Chunk:

Remove the related items of Feed Chunk 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 Chunk 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 Chunk) 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 Chunk 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 Chunk 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 Chunk 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 Chunk 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 Chunk (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.