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The Friendshipmale.com website

The Friendshipmale.com website is a site known for its connections to browser hijacking activities. It is associated with the group chat industry and operates covertly, inundating users with ads saying things like “get this antivirus for free and have no malware” or something similar, and altering the behavior of web browsers. The primary objective behind this is revenue generation through advertising. However, the site poses risks as it may redirect users to dubious websites or those harboring threats. Users who find their browsers constantly redirected to Friendshipmale.com are likely to have an unwanted browser extension or a malicious program installed on their device. This website can be displayed through auto-redirects, push notifications, or malware opening the site without user consent.

What is Friendship male website?

The Friendship male website is not classified as a traditional computer virus, but it’s considered uninvited software, suggesting it may pose indirect threats to your device. The website can significantly slow down a computer and display numerous advertisements. The underlying goal is often to collect user information or generate additional ad appearances. The creators of this software employ pay-per-click schemes, leading users to visit risky websites that can generate funds for them, thereby indirectly posing a risk to the operating system.

What is Friendshipmale.com?

Friendshipmale.com’s distribution is often through freeware installations and bundled packages, making it a common unwanted addition during the installation of other software. Its arrival on a user’s device typically results in changes to the browser settings, such as the default homepage with the Friendshipmale.com page and new tab features, leading to an increase in various types of advertisements. These ads can be in the form of redirect adverts, banner ads, push messages, pop-up boxes, and others that match the user’s search patterns.

The Friendship male malware

The Friendship male malware is typically characterized by several symptoms when active on a device. These include a general slowdown and poor performance of the computer. Users may also notice apps running automatically that they don’t recall installing, and suspicious processes in their Task Manager. If these symptoms are observed, security experts recommend checking the computer for viruses​​.

To remove the Friendship male malware, users have the option of manual removal or using a reputable anti-malware software. Manual removal involves steps like deleting malicious profiles and apps, resetting browsers to default settings, and running a scan with a specialized tool like Malwarebytes for Mac. This removal process is crucial to prevent the browser hijacker from continuing to redirect users to random websites and inundating them with unwanted ads.

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How to remove Friendshipmale.com website

To try and remove Friendshipmale quickly you can try this:

1. Go to your browser’s settings and select More Tools (or Add-ons, depending on your browser).
2. Then click on the Extensions tab.
3. Look for the Friendshipmale extension (as well as any other unfamiliar ones).
4. Remove Friendshipmale by clicking on the Trash Bin icon next to its name.
5. Confirm and get rid of Friendshipmale and any other suspicious items.

If this does not work as described please follow our more detailed Friendshipmale removal guide below.

If you have a Windows virus, continue with the guide below.

If you have a Mac virus, please use our How to remove Ads on Mac guide.

If you have an Android virus, please use our Android Malware Removal guide.

If you have an iPhone virus, please use our iPhone Virus Removal guide.

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Next, Reboot in Safe Mode (use this guide if you don’t know how to do it).

Uninstall the Friendshipmale app and kill its processes

The first thing you must try to do is look for any sketchy installs on your computer and uninstall anything you think may come from Friendshipmale. After that, you’ll also need to get rid of any processes that may be related to the unwanted app by searching for them in the Task Manager.

Note that sometimes an app, especially a rogue one, may ask you to install something else or keep some of its data (such as settings files) on your PC – never agree to that when trying to delete a potentially rogue software. You need to make sure that everything is removed from your PC to get rid of the malware. Also, if you aren’t allowed to go through with the uninstallation, proceed with the guide, and try again after you’ve completed everything else.

• Uninstalling the rogue app
• Killing any rogue processes

Type Apps & Features in the Start Menu, open the first result, sort the list of apps by date, and look for suspicious recently installed entries.

Click on anything you think could be linked to Friendshipmale, then select uninstall, and follow the prompts to delete the app.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, click More Details (if it’s not already clicked), and look for suspicious entries that may be linked to Friendshipmale.

If you come across a questionable process, right-click it, click Open File Location, scan the files with the free online malware scanner shown below, and then delete anything that gets flagged as a threat.

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After that, if the rogue process is still visible in the Task Manager, right-click it again and select End Process.

Undo Friendshipmale changes made to different system settings

It’s possible that Friendshipmale has affected various parts of your system, making changes to their settings. This can enable the malware to stay on the computer or automatically reinstall itself after you’ve seemingly deleted it. Therefore, you need to check the following elements by going to the Start Menu, searching for them, and pressing Enter to open them and to see if anything has been changed there without your approval. Then you must undo any unwanted changes made to these settings in the way shown below:

• DNS
• Hosts
• Startup
• Task
  Scheduler
• Services
• Registry

Type in Start Menu: View network connections

Right-click on your primary network, go to Properties, and do this:

Type in Start Menu: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Type in the Start Menu: Startup apps

Type in the Start Menu: Task Scheduler

Type in the Start Menu: Services

Type in the Start Menu: Registry Editor

Press Ctrl + F to open the search window

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