Both his Google Chrome and IE are infected with MPlayerX.
My Google web browser opens automatically, and I am directed to MPlayerX download as well as other download pages that are telling me my computer is infected with viruses.My IE browser will open new tabs automatically with the same issues as with Google Chrome, but the browser will not start automatically as does Google Chrome
How MPlayerX gets on your PC?
Typically, it happens when you download freeware from the internet and install it without paying any attend to the installation process. Here comes the truth: MPlayerX is usually disguised as a bundle hidden in your main wanted freeware. If you don’t choose Customize Installation to cancel the pre-check confirmation about some bundled components, you definitely will install potential information like MPlayerX along with your desired ones.
Apart from that, it can also infiltrate your PC by the means of:
• opening infected email attached files.
• visiting malicious or corrupted websites.
• clicking suspicious links planted with exploit code that tries to install malware without your approval.
How does MPlayerX mess up your PC?
As a malicious domain, it might change your homepage and redirect you to its sites or spam sites full of products. Also, it generates various pop-up ads to prompt the sponsored products, interrupting your online activities. To make the ads attractive for you, it also monitors your browsing activities and gathers the information of the third party. You have to worry about your confidential information like personal account log in details, which could be exposed. Apart from that, it definitely slow down your PC and make you browser crash down randomly.
What should you do now?
The longer MPlayerX stays on the vulnerable PC, the more trouble you will get. For example, it bring additional potential unwanted programs like adware and rogue antivirus program to infect your PC. The sooner you remove it out, the better for your PC.
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How to Remove MPlayerX Easily and Completely?
Plan A: Remove MPlayerX manually
Click Start>Control Panel
Click Programs>Uninstall a Program
Search for the unwanted application MPlayerX> right click MPlayerX and choose Uninstall
Press Windows+R> input msconfig>click OK
Click Startup> input msconfig>check for the list> find MPlayerX and Un-check it (uncheck the ones you don't want)>click OK
Remove it from Internet Explorer
- launch up IE> click Tools (click on gear icon in IE9/IE10)> choose Internet Option
- Internet Option window> Advanced tab> click Restore Advance Settings> click on Reset
- tick Delete personal settings> click on Reset
- reset the homepage
Remove it from Google Chrome
- open Google Chrome>click on Settings>choose configuration page> search for Open a specific page or set of pages> click on Set Pages
- find configuration page> search for Manage search engines and click it> get Default search engine settings> change your default search engine
- search for these 2 options: Make Defaul&Close button “x” to delete the search engine.
- make default your Google search engine and delete all one by one
- reset the homepage
- open troubleshooting information from browser Firefox
- get Help menu and click Troubleshooting information
- with page of Trouble shooting informaiton, search for Reset Firefox and click on Reset
- reset the homepage
Note: If you think the manual removal is complicated and you really want to be a lazy guy, no worries, there is still a perfect solution for you - Download and Install Spyhunter to Remove MPlayerX Automatically. The most powerful antivirus program Spyhunter can remove MPlayerX just like hands down for you.
Plan B: Remove MPlayerX automatically (with SpyHunter)
1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.
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Step B. Run SpyHunter to block it
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.