Bring Me Sports is a toolbar that can be installed to Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. It offers such additional features as easy access to the latest sport events, including real-time scores, breaking news, video highlights. The company behind it is Mind Spark. Although this application is free of charge, its developers earn money from other revenues such as redirecting users to websites they promote. When you add Bring Me Sports to your browser extensions, you will also automatically change your home page and search engine to mywebsearch.com. Note, that toolbar’s developers do not leave any choice for you regarding these settings. Moreover, if you try to remove the toolbar, you will see that it is particularly difficult to do it and in many cases unwanted changes remain.
Bring Me Sports is distributed using several methods. One can download it from company’s official website or find it among downloads of affiliate sites. Yet people choose to install similar toolbars by themselves very seldom. To increase a number of users companies like Mind Spark use legal but unfair means such as bundling their tools with other free software. When a computer user installs it, she chooses an automatic option most of the time where adding of applications like Bring Me Sports is marked by default. This way a victim gets tricked and theoretically agrees upon installation of unwanted software.
Although Bring Me Sports is not directly related to malware, it is recommended to remove it as soon as noticed. Search engine mywebsearch.com doesn’t add any value compared to legitimate search engines such as Google, Yahoo or other. Moreover, the results displayed are mixed with advertised links and the latter are not marked any different therefore you are tricked to click on them and this way make money for the company behind the search engine. All of the shortcuts offered by Bring Me Sports can be reached directly without using it. The toolbar itself does not give any additional functionality.
If you choose to remove Bring Me Sports, you may try to do this via Control Panel Add and Remove Programs list. You may also look for it and all related files in browser extensions. Removing the toolbar manually will leave home page and search page redirected therefore you might need to restore them from the settings as well. The easiest way to get rid of Bring Me Sports is by using an automatic removal tool that is effecting in detecting and removing many adware and browser hijackers – Spyhunter. It is recommended to scan your computer with a similar program even if you chose to remove Bring Me Sports manually because it might be that more than one adware has been installed with it. Note that not all of antivirus programs can detect this type of infection therefore investigate on its limitations before using a tool other than Spyhunter.