Appstation WebCamera Snapshot - How to remove

Appstation WebCamera Snapshot is a browser add-on. It looks useful at first, promising to help users take good pictures with their camera. But once installed, Appstation WebCamera Snapshot makes unwanted changes to browser settings, shows unwanted ads, and tracks user data.

Not to mention, the Appstation WebCamera Snapshot extension itself doesn’t take camera pictures – it sends users to a website to do this.

Appstation WebCamera Snapshot in short:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Appstation WebCamera Snapshot changes the browser	It replaces the new tab with a blank page, it changes the default search settings to hijack web searches, it shows ads for other extensions, it promotes advertising sites.
How to avoid browser hijackers	Don’t install unknown or unnecessary extensions, use anti-malware apps and ad blockers to protect yourself.
How to get rid of Appstation WebCamera Snapshot	Uninstall all unwanted browser extensions, check your notification settings and block unwanted ads, check new tab and search settings, scan your computer with antivirus tools (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.).

Appstation WebCamera Snapshot

Appstation WebCamera Snapshot changes browser settings

Appstation WebCamera Snapshot is a browser add-on. It offers to help you take pictures with your camera. It’s related to Appstation AntiVirus Scan.

The add-on also replaces the new tab page and changes your search settings.

Now, when you open a new tab in your browser, it looks different – no more background pictures, no more links to your favorite websites. Only a search bar in the middle of the page.

When you search the web directly from your address bar or from the search box on the new tab page, Appstation WebCamera Snapshot makes it so that your search results are returned by Nearbyme.io, Bing.com, or another unexpected site.

If you said that these features don’t help Appstation WebCamera Snapshot take pictures, you’d be right. Oh, but we’re only halfway through listing the add-on’s problems.

Appstation WebCamera Snapshot shows unwanted ads

After Appstation WebCamera Snapshot is installed, it opens Chromeapps.site/camera. This is the site that delivers Appstation WebCamera Snapshot’s camera functionality.

Extensions should never just open a website to deliver their features. Such extensions don’t need to exist – they can be replaced with bookmarks. All that Appstation WebCamera Snapshot is doing is invading people’s privacy and manipulating their browser settings.

By the way, Chromeapps.site/camera is full of low-quality ads: ads that lie about their destination, fake virus alerts, fake app notifications (such as an ad disguised as a “pending message” notification that actually leads to a betting site). And if you allow Chromeapps.site/camera to send you notifications, it starts spamming you with pop-ups.

The Appstation WebCamera Snapshot extension also shows ads of its own. Most prominently, promotes another browser extension – AD&POP Block – through 1stepdownload.com, a site flagged by some antivirus scanners as Malware (Virustotal.com).

How to get rid of Appstation WebCamera Snapshot

Delete Appstation WebCamera Snapshot and other malware

To free your browser from Appstation WebCamera Snapshot, to undo all the changes, it’s recommended to uninstall it and other potentially unwanted extensions. The instructions for how to remove extensions can be found below.

You may want to scan your computer with an anti-malware app (such as Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.). Anti-malware scanners might not detect all bad browser extensions, but they can find suspicious and potentially unwanted desktop apps and programs that could be related to the Appstation WebCamera Snapshot infection.

After removing all unwanted add-ons, open the notification settings in your browser and, if needed, block notifications from sites that abuse them.

Check your new tab and search settings to make sure that Appstation WebCamera Snapshot no longer has a hold on them.

How to avoid hijackers

Remember – browser add-ons have access to a lot of your data. Often, they can see your browsing history. Sometimes, they can read the content of the pages that you visit. It would be very dangerous if a malicious extension got that kind of access to your browser. So, be careful about what you install from the Chrome Web Store and other extension stores.

You can use ad blockers and malicious site blockers to avoid bad and dishonest ads that push browser hijackers. But if one does slip through and take over your browser, you’ll now know how to remove it.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove notifications

TopHow To remove Appstation WebCamera Snapshot from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Appstation WebCamera Snapshot, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Appstation WebCamera Snapshot from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Appstation WebCamera Snapshot, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Appstation WebCamera Snapshot from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Appstation WebCamera Snapshot related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Appstation WebCamera Snapshot, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.