Sunday, March 30, 2014

Tips to Remove My-movie-player.com Adware Virus from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox



My-movie-player.com is A Malicious Website

My-movie-player.com is a vicious domain which is used by third parties to display advertisements, coupons and other commercial messages. This nettlesome virus can be injected into a variety of web browsers like IE, Chrome and Safari. As soon as your homepage and search provider are modified, you will have no chance to set them back. Additionally, this adware program generates a mass of ads to interrupt your browsing activities. When you search some Internet resources like videos, pictures and news, you meet with suspicious links appears under the bottom of search results. If you click on them accidentally, you will be transferred to sponsored websites. The longer you keep My-movie-player.com in your system, the more malicious programs will show up on your PC. You should clear that these unwanted programs use a lot of computer resources. Once your computer lacks enough space, it will run weirdly. And it will take forever to boot up and shut down.  The CPU utilization reaches a high value because there are lots of unnecessary programs run in the background, which is harmful to your computer performance. The worst situation is that My-movie-player.com can tack your browser histories. Consequently, your important information stored on the affected PC will be exposed to unknown third parties. Hence, you ought to take actions to erase My-movie-player.com from your PC promptly in case this pest violates your privacy.

Manual Removal Guide of My-movie-player.com Virus

Step 1: Restart the computer, keep pressing F8 till the option appears, and then use arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Networking.



Step 2: End related processes of My-movie-player.com adware. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.


Step 3: Uninstall all suspicious programs. Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs and Features.
 

Step 4: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.


%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 5: Remove dropped registry files of My-movie-player.com. Hit Win+R to activate Run, and then type “regedit” and press OK. Find unfamiliar keys and click Delete.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main
"StartPage"= "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from
=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Search "CustomizeSearch"= "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Search "SearchAssistant"= "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=
tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"


Step 6: Remove toolbars and extension from your web browser.

For Google Chrome

1. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions by clicking Bin button.


2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change button to reset your homepage.


For Mozilla Firefox

1. Click Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time to open Add-ons page > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.
 


2. Click the Firefox button > Help > Troubleshooting Information > click on Reset Firefox button.


For Internet Explorer

1. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.


2. Click Search Providers, delete My-movie-player.com from IE.


3. Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.

Step 7: Reboot your PC.