Rival Gaming - How to remove

Rival Gaming is a browser toolbar that as typical to such scams, embeds itself on the IE, Firefox or other browsers without any user’s approval asked. For an unaware PC owner, this program is presented as a gaming toolbar which promises to allow him navigate between the games at any time. However, this is a potentially unwanted application that comes together with other software from insecure websites – it has been widely reported to spread bundled with it. In addition, Rival Gaming toolbar makes itself comfortable on the target PC and starts initiating annoying activity which may result in identity or privacy theft.

As you can see, though it looks useful this toolbar is potentially dangerous. You must know that it may also install additional malware onto the compromised machine and collect information about the user, such as browsing habits, commercial data, passwords and other. Note that you must remove Rival Gaming toolbar but it is almost impossible to uninstall it manually though the Add/Remove Programs option. For that we recommend scanning your computer with Spyhunter and after that following these steps:

On IE:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box;
2. Do following:
   • On IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers;
   • On ie7 click change search defaults;
3. Remove Rival Gaming from the list.

On Firefox :

1. Go to “about:config” settings and do following =>;
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it;
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.

On Google Chrome:

1. Click gear icon on browser toolbar;
2. Select Settings;
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines;
4. Remove Rival Gaming from list.

Finally, we recommend scanning with spyhunter to check if you haven’t been infected with more malicious software. Besides, you are highly advised to avoid visiting insecure domains that spread scams like this one.

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