How to remove MplayerX (Virus Removal Guide)
What is MplayerX?
MplayerX is adware that promotes itself as a free media player and utility used to enhance online videos and media content. What potential MplayerX malware does not make clear is that it serves advertisements across Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer after it is installed. Furthermore MplayerX can bundle with other unwanted programs, malware, and malicious threats that perform other activities and put users at risk.
MplayerX media player and similar items can be manually downloaded from a variety of locations; However, most users have found programs like MplayerX installed without consent. This may be because potential MplayerX malware uses aggressive marketing tactics to infiltrate a computer system without direct user knowledge and often alongside other items.
Potential MplayerX malware uses browser helper objects, add-ons, and extensions to access and gather user information, including user browsing data such as all browsing activities, bookmarks, history, and more. The collected information is used for various marketing practices and to severe ads by MplayerX across multiple internet browsers. This adware and programs that it associates may also read, modify, and ultimately change browser and system start-up settings, causing a plethora of unwanted activities.
How to remove MplayerX (Virus Removal)
- Automatic Removal Guide
- Manual Removal Guide
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1. Automatic Removal Guide
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
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2. Install the free or full version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. The full version enables real-time protection to block malware and unwanted programs from infecting your computer, while the free version is just a free scan and removal tool.
3. Once Malwarebytes is installed, run the Anti-Malware program. Malwarebytes may automatically begin to update and scan your computer at this point.
4. Once Malwarebytes has been opened, if a scan or update has not automatically initiated, please click the large Scan Now button or visit the “Scan” tab to manually run a scan. Before the scan is started Malwarebytes may ask to update the software, make sure to do so if prompted to.
5. Once the scan is complete, click the Quarantine All button to isolate and remove the detected files. You may be asked to reboot your computer after removal to completely remove detected files.
6. You can chose to visit the History tab and click Delete All to remove these files from the Quarantine log, although these files no longer provide a threat.
CCleaner by Piriform
CCleaner can be used to automatically repair internet browser settings that have been changed during this infection. It can also fix system startup up settings and help uninstall unwanted software.
1. Install the free or full version of CCleaner by Piriform.
2. Once installed, open the program and navigate to Cleaner > Windows/Applications and click the Analyze button. Afterwards, click the Run Cleaner button on the bottom right of the program interface.
3. Next, navigate to Tools > Startup and search through each tab starting from windows, internet explorer, etc., all the way to Content Menu, for additional suspicious entries and click Disable and Delete once anything is found.
4. To automatically uninstall unwanted software, navigate to the Uninstall tab and search for the program in the list of installed programs. Uninstall the unwanted software as selected by clicking the Run Uninstaller button.
2. Manual Removal Guide
How to uninstall MplayerX
1. Access Windows Start Menu and navigate to the Control Panel (on Windows 8, right click the bottom left corner to gain access to the Windows 8 Start Menu. Windows 8 may also select Programs and Features).
2. In Windows Control Panel, click Uninstall a program or Add and remove a program in the Programs section (If you are using Windows 8 you will bypass the Control Panel).
3. In the list of installed programs, search for software titled MplayerX. Once the adware is located, double click the unwanted program or select it with your mouse and click the Uninstall button. *Follow any on-screen instructions that may prompt to remove this program.
How to remove MplayerX add-ons and extensions
Google Chrome
1. Click on the Customize icon (wrench or 3 bar icon) next to the address bar and navigate to More tools > Extensions.
2. Search for the MplayerX extension and remove it by clicking the trashcan icon next to it.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Type Ctrl+Shift+A.
2. On the Extensions and Plugin search for the MplayerX add-on and remove it.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
1. Click Tools and select Manage add-ons.
2. On the Toolbars and Extensions tab search for the MplayerX add-on, click it, and click the Remove button. If the button does not appear you must first uninstall associated software through the Control Panel.
