How to remove Spigot Toolbar

Complete guide to delete Spigot Toolbar

Spigot Toolbar is an app that offers a functionality of advanced new tab and allows users to generate revenue based on advertising. However, it is a potentially unwanted app that has various shady features. It affects the browsers as well as system. It can modify the browsers’ settings to display intrusive advertisements.

The company behind this tool is actually a legit one that offers digital marketing solutions and designs personalized toolbars to increase loyalty of customers. The services might seem useful, the main thing to concern is the sudden appearance of the toolbar and encountered browsers’ based problems caused by it.

The Spigot Toolbar tool is often spread in package of freeware or shareware app. Therefore, it is easy to install it without noticing. After the installation, it hijacks the installed web browsers, replaces the default homepage and new tab to Yahoo search engine, modifies the windows registry, redirects to promotional or potentially dangerous pages and delivers pop-ups ads. These activities will not only cause browsing struggles but also sluggish the system behavior.

One of the main functions of Spigot Toolbar is to display commercial ads on affected web browsers. It displays pop-ups, banners or in-text ads that allow the developers to generate pay-per-click revenue and help various business owners increase their sales or traffic to their sites. Because of the excessive amount of the ads, the web browsing experience will be significantly affected.

However, the biggest problem is related to the redirects. The PUA often redirect you to potentially dangerous pages when you click on a shopping offer or other ads. You have to be careful with the ads as it is really hard to separate legit ads from fake ones. To completely stop these ads, remove Spigot Toolbar immediately. You can do this manually by using our below mentioned manual instructions or employ a reputable antivirus, run a full system scan using it for its automatic removal.

Spigot Toolbar can track browsing data

The Spigot Toolbar can collect users’ search items, visited sites, data entered and etc. We recommend not ignoring this as you never know where this personally identifiable information can be used for. The malware Spigot Toolbar allow third party advertisers to send customized ads using the collected data. Users willing to click on personalized ads. However, the PUA often delivers infected ads. Thus, you do not want to end up on any scam websites or unintentionally install malware you should opt for Spigot Toolbar removal option.

Software bundles are responsible for PUAs distribution

Spigot Toolbar is available on various file sharing sites. The potentially unwanted app can be distributed using software bundling. This allows addition of PUAs in software package and spreading it with primary program. By careful analyzing during installation, you can opt-out unwanted apps:

• Select Custom/Advanced option during installation.
• Read all terms, study possible options to avoid pre-installed partner’s software,
• Uncheck all pre-selected checkmarks that allow installation of browser add-ons, plug-ins, toolbars, extensions and etc.

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 Spigot Toolbar:

Remove the related items of Spigot Toolbar 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 Spigot Toolbar 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 (Spigot Toolbar) 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 Spigot Toolbar 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 Spigot Toolbar 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 Spigot Toolbar 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 Spigot Toolbar 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 Spigot Toolbar (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.