GameTrekkers Toolbar

Posted by Max Lehmann on October 9, 2015

What is GameTrekkers Toolbar?

If you like multiplayer online games, you might have come across GameTrekkers Toolbar, but it is more likely that you installed it unknowingly as a part of a freeware bundle. The presence of this bad toolbar is quite obvious as it changes your home page and search engine settings, not to mention the annoying toolbar it displays in your browsers. If this toolbar appears in your browsers and it comes as a surprise, chances are there are more threats for you to worry about. According to our researchers at anti-spyware-101.com, you may put your Windows operating system’s security at risk if you do not remove GameTrekkers Toolbar as soon as possible. Even if this browser extension is not as dangerous as a Trojan horse infection, for example, it might still expose you to unreliable third-party web content. Please read our full article to find out more about this malware infection and how it might harm your system.

Where does GameTrekkers Toolbar come from?

It seems that the Mindspark toolbar family has suffered some losses lately, because this toolbar is not the first one we find with a good-bye message on its website, gametrekkers.com. It seems that the company does not support this product anymore. This is what you can read on the site: “After a number of good years, this product has gone into retirement.” However, if the company had only used this website for promoting its useless product, most probably they could not talk about “good years.” The secret behind this toolbar is that it also spreads in freeware bundles.

When it comes to bundles, you need to be extra careful. Those times are long gone when you could trust the content of software packages. Nowadays, you can find more and more bundles that are infected with malware programs. If you install such a bundle and you are not attentive enough, you may allow the whole content to land on your computer. That could result in serious infection and a number of system security issues. Therefore, we advise you to delete GameTrekkers Toolbar and check your computer for other threats right after that. Failing to act in time may lead to more infections and “anomalies” on your PC. test test test

What does GameTrekkers Toolbar do?

Just because an application is said to be free, that does not mean it cannot generate revenue for its creators. This toolbar provides you quick links to online gaming-related websites and a third-party search tool, Ask.com. As a matter of fact, GameTrekkers Toolbar sets Ask.com as your home page and default search engine as well. Although that is a reliable search engine, we advise you not to use it for searching the web as this toolbar may alter the search results. It can hide potentially unreliable sponsored links among the results. If you click on such a link, you might land on a malicious website, and that could be detrimental to your computer’s health. Therefore, we think you had better delete GameTrekkers Toolbar from your PC.

How can I remove GameTrekkers Toolbar?

Hopefully, you now realize the importance of not keeping such an unreliable application as GameTrekkers Toolbar on-board. So here is what you can do in order to eliminate this potential threat source. Find the application in the list of installed programs in Control Panel and uninstall it. Then reset your browsers. If you need assistance, please follow our guide below. If you want to keep your computer clean of malware infections, we advise you to keep away from suspicious shareware and torrent sites and, also, to be careful with clicking on third-party advertisements.