What is FoodBuzz?

FoodBuzz is a browser extension that hijacks Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. According to the developers, FoodBuzz is a program that is designed to help the user to make purchases on popular sites such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart and others. Nevertheless, the real goal of the developers is to make money. FoodBuzz begins to display a huge amount of advertising in the form of coupons, banners and other things. FoodBuzz can also redirect you to an ad site or change the search results. Then it adds a large toolbar, in which a lot of publicity too. This program will appear every time when you open your browser. FoodBuzz can also change the settings of your browser, including the homepage. FoodBuzz is not a virus, but this program doesn’t do anything useful. It can slow down browsing, collect your personal information and send it to third parties. Those waste of time, remove FoodBuzz now.

How FoodBuzz gets on your PC?

FoodBuzz gets into a computer bundled with other free programs that the user can download from popular sites on the similarity download.com. FoodBuzz comes without the user’s knowledge and can bring other malicious programs. Sometimes, the user can set FoodBuzz manually because FoodBuzz promises to help make purchases and save your money. Always make sure the software installation process is safe. Take your time. Don’t click the “Next” button until you satisfied in safety of program. Also, read the user agreement and choose a full view of installation options. If FoodBuzz already got on your PC, then use our instructions listed below.

How to remove FoodBuzz from your computer?

To uninstall FoodBuzz remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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Or uninstall FoodBuzz manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find FoodBuzz.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find FoodBuzz and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find FoodBuzz, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove FoodBuzz from your browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find FoodBuzz.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose FoodBuzz.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable FoodBuzz.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries of FoodBuzz:

HKLMSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{103B5257-C7F6-3587-8BD5-1A08A5434E6F}
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{1C6E034D-B4B6-4D96-94B5-4163A5EB2195}
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{C6D9F6DC-1CB8-38DD-95D5-406C60E5B325}
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesFoodBuzz.IEModule
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesFoodBuzz.IEModule+IECustomCommands
HKLMSOFTWAREClassesFoodBuzz.IEModule+IECustomContextMenuCommands
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftTracingFoodBuzzInstaller_RASAPI32
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftTracingFoodBuzzInstaller_RASMANCS
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftTracingFoodBuzzUpdate_RASAPI32
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftTracingFoodBuzzUpdate_RASMANCS
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects{1C6E034D-B4B6-4D96-94B5-4163A5EB2195}
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallFoodBuzz
HKCUSoftwareFoodBuzz

Then remove following files of FoodBuzz:

AddinExpress.IE.dll
adxloader.dll
adxloader.dll.manifest
adxloader.exe
adxloader64.dll
FoodBuzz.dll
Interop.SHDocVw.dll
Microsoft.mshtml.dll
uninstall.exe
FoodBuzzUpdate.exe

And these folders of FoodBuzz:

%PROGRAMFILES%FoodBuzz

Written by Rami Douafi