FreePDFCombiner Toolbar
The FreePDFCombiner Toolbar is a free program offered by a marketing company called Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. Mindspark is well-known for using free applications like the FreePDFCombiner Toolbar, the PDF Convert Tools, the EasyPDFCombine Toolbar, the PDFConverterHQ Toolbar and MyFileConvert to collect Internet history records, downloads logs, installed extensions lists and bookmarks from PC users. The FreePDFCombiner Toolbar is another application that offers free access to document processing tools on the Internet in exchange for information about your system, Windows version, browser type and various statics related to your Internet activities. The company offers the FreePDFCombiner Toolbar via hxxp://www.freepdfcombiner[.]com to Web surfers with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
The FreePDFCombiner Extension requires the following rights in Google Chrome:
- Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
- Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.
- Manage your apps, extensions and themes.
- Manage your downloads.
The FreePDFCombiner Add-on requires the following rights in Mozilla Firefox:
- Access your data for all websites.
- Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox.
- Access browser tabs.
- Access browser activity during navigation.
- Monitor extension usage and manage themes.
The FreePDFCombiner Browser Help Object requires the following rights in Internet Explorer:
- Make FreePDFCombiner your homepage & new tab.
The FreePDFCombiner program is known to change the default new tab in Chrome to hxxps://hp.myway[.]com/freepdfcombiner/ttab02chr/index.html. The versions for IE and Firefox include changes to the new tab and start page to hxxp://hp.myway[.]com/freepdfcombiner/ttab02/index.html. The FreePDFCombiner program provides users with non-customizable new tab and start page that has links to sites like Trivago.com, Facebook.com, Booking.com, Youtube.com, Gmail.com, Dictionary.com, Sendspace.com and Amazon.com. The 'FreePDFCombiner' button at the top can be used to access hxxp://app.freepdfcombiner[.]com, which you can use to stitch PDFs together for free. Mindspark is likely to use the FreePDFCombiner New Tab to show targeted commercials based on the content you have engaged on the Web recently. FreePDFCombiner is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by computer security analysts. You are not required to install the FreePDFCombiner Toolbar so that you can load hxxp://app.freepdfcombiner[.]com. AV companies flag the files related to FreePDFCombiner by Mindspark as:
Adware.Agent
Adware.MyWebSearch.121
GrayWare/Win32.StartPage.gen
JS/Mindspark.B potentially unwanted
PUA.Toolbar.Agent!
PUA:Win32/Presenoker
PUF.Mindspark!8.FA2 (TOPIS:KASyEiW41jH)
PUP/Win32.Getforms.R207000
Pua.Mywebsearch.Lddk!c
W32/MindSpark.MHJA-2086
