Harms of Motitags Toolbar
2) It hijacks your browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
3) It modifies browser default settings including search engine and homepage. Once it is installed, your homepage is redirected to the homepage of Motitags Toolbar against your desired ones.
4) It may display numerous ads, banners and coupons, which are annoying and may be planted with malware like browser hijacker and Trojan. ( You are advised not to click on these pop-ups)
5) It largely degrades your computer speed since it consumes most of the system resource.
6) You may be confused about the pop-ups which are related to your search. As a malware it is, it can collect your browsing history and may steal your confidential information like personal accounts log in details.
What is Motitags Toolbar?
Motitags Toolbar is a browser extension for browsers. As it is an extension, it is supposed to provide continence for the users. Nevertheless, it brings a lot of chaos listed above to the hacked computer.How Motitags Toolbar gets on your computer?
Typically, it disguises itself as a bundled component of the wanted free software. Most of the victims claimed that after their downloading, they got attacked by Motitags Toolbar. Here’s the Tip: Always choose Customize Installation over Default Installation to cancel unwanted terms and components.
Please remove Motitags Toolbar as soon as you can before any further damage. Motitags Toolbar can be easily removed manually.
Efficient Removal Solution Details
Solution 1: Remove Motitags Toolbar Manually
Step1: Remove Motitags Toolbar and any related program to home.tb.ask.com from Control Panel.Windows Vista and Windows 7
1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and click Uninstall a program.
3. Remove the Motitags toolbar.
Windows XP
1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel and then click Add or Remove Programs.
3. Uninstall Motitags Toolbar.
Windows 8
1. Press Win+R.
2. Type in control panel and click OK.
3. Select Uninstall a program. 4. Remove the Motitags toolbar.
Step2: Remove add-ons from all the web browsers.
Internet Explorer:
1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;
Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.
Step3: Delete these files created by Motitags Toolbar and home.tb.ask.com:
%AppData%\ Motitags Toolbar\[random].ini %AppData%\ Motitags ToolbarStep4: Delete all registry values related to Motitags Toolbar and home.tb.ask.com.
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Motitags Toolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”
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Solution 2: Remove Motitags Toolbar automatically (with SpyHunter)
Step A. Download removal tool SpyHunter
1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.
2) Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter
Step B. Run SpyHunter to block Motitags Toolbar
Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.
Step C. Restart your computer to take effect.