How to Remove “Ads by MediaPlayer” Popup Ads (Unintall Guide)

Question

Can you please help me to remove MediaPlayer advertisement from my computer, actually I got MediaPlayer ads on my every pages of browser, It says “Ads not by this site” it is by MediaPlayer ads. I have tried all that but no success. How to Remove “Ads by MediaPlayer” advertisement I have scanned my computer with Norton but did not found anything. I have tried to remove manually but no avail. Please help me urgent.

Solved Answer

You are right, Actually MediaPlayerEnhance is an Adware which is display you unwanted & unknown advertisements on every website. It is installed into your computer as a media player but is actually not. It is installs as a Internet Explorer plugin, Google chrome extension, Mozilla Firefox add-ons. once it is installed, it’s really very hard to remove, Anyway you can get rid of MediaPlayer advertisement by using our removal instruction which is listed below.

MediaPlayer advertisement works like a virus. When you try to open any website and type into address bar the website address to open, but it will redirected to another sponsored website.

You got MediaPlayer from 3rd party downloading websites, so please be careful when you download any file from internet. You should not download any thing from 3rd party downloading websites, you should download only from their own website. Do not tick unwanted check box which prompts while installation of any software.

MediaPlayer  Removal Guide

In order to uninstall you need to perform some steps on your computer, First of all you need to uninstall MediaPlayer from control panel and then remove the add-ons name MediaPlayer from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

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Step 1 : To Uninstall MediaPlayer from computer

• Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.
• Now click on Programs –> Uninstall a program or Program and Features (Windows-7, 8, Vista).

• For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.

• You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
• Uninstall MediaPlayer from there.
• Also do uninstall all the programs which are listed in Suspicious Programs list below, if you find any installed into your computer. Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately if you found any.

Suspicious Programs list

• MediaPlayer
• Browser defender
• Browser protect
• Browser protected by conduit
• Delta search, Babylon
• LessTabs
• WebCake 3.0
• Yealt
• LyricsContainer
• VideoSaver
• AddLyrics
• privacy safe gaurd
• unfriend checker
• Price peep today
• Coupon amazine
• TidyNetwork.com
• DownloadTerms 1.0
• Yontoo
• Uninstall all the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

Manual Steps

Step 2 : To Remove MediaPlayer ads from Internet Explorer.

Step 2.1 : Remove MediaPlayer add-ons from Internet Explorer.

• Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened
• click on Programs tab then click on Manage Addons, now you’ll get a window which have listed all the installed addons.
• Now disable the MediaPlayer add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted addons from this list. (As per below screenshot).

Step 2.2 : Reset Internet Explorer

• Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
• For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon . Then click on tools.

• Click on Advanced tab, then click on RESET button.
• Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)
• Now your Internet Explorer has been Restored to default settings.

• Now you will appear a popup stated “complete all the tasks”. After completion click on close button.

Step 3 : To Remove MediaPlayer popup from Mozilla Firefox

Step 3.1 : Remove MediaPlayer from add-ons

• Open Firefox and then go the Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar) click on Add-ons, you’ll get a page click on extensions from the left side pane. now look on right side pane you’ll get all the installed add-ons listed on there. Disable or Remove MediaPlayer addon, also disable all the unknow / unwnated addons from there. (As per below screen shot)

Step 3.2 : Reset Mozilla Firefox

• Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar)
• Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
  Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
  
• You will get a page “Troubleshooting information” page, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
• Click on Reset Firefox option. and follow their instruction to reset.
• Now your Mozilla Firefox has been Restored to default settings.

Step 4 : To Remove MediaPlayer popup ads from Google Chrome

Step 4.1 : Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome

• Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
• Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

• In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Step 4.2 : Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

• Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)
  

• You will get a configuration page. which have listed all the installed extensions, Remove MediaPlayer extension & also remove all the unknown / unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)

Step 4.3 : Reset Google Chrome

• Close all Google Chrome browser’s window
• Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Run box.
• Copy and Paste this following command “as per your OS” in this Run box then click on OK button. You’ll get open a location in windows explorer.
  Windows XP
  %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Windows 7, 8, Vista
  %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

• In the default folder location, Rename a file named as “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“
• In the same default folder location, Rename one more file named as “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“
• Now your Google Chrome has been Restored to default settings.

Step 5 : To Remove MediaPlayer redirect from Registry

• Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “REGEDIT” into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a registry editor window.
• In the registry editor, click on Edit menu and then click on find option, you’ll get edit box to search any string into registry editor
• Type “MediaPlayer” into the find box and then click on Find Next.
• The search result will highlight the key or value which have contains the MediaPlayer string.
• Now delete the Registry Key/Value/Value-Data if any one contains “MediaPlayer” string (must see the example screenshot below)
  Note:- Do not delete the complete value data, just delete the MediaPlayer path only (for example see screenshot3 below)
  
• Use F3 key to find Next. and do the last step to all results.
• We are giving you the example on “Conduit” Adware.
  

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Step 6 : To Remove MediaPlayer Adware from Autorun Tasks

• Click on Start button and then do Right-Click on the computer and then do left-click on Manage. A manage window will appear.
• In the manage window click on Tasks Scheduler from right side pane, then click on “Task Scheduler Library“, Now look on left side pane and Remove all the Tasks which have contains MediaPlayer string and also remove all the unknown / unwanted tasks from there (As per the screenshot below).
  

Step 7 : To Remove MediaPlayer virus from Startup

• Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a msconfig window.
• In the msconfig window click on Startup tab, here you’ll get all the startup entries, so look on the list and then do Un-check the entries which is contains MediaPlayer. Also Un-check all the others entries which you found unwanted. then click on OK to apply all the changes.

Step 8 : To Remove MediaPlayer adware from Services

• Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG” into the run box then click on OK. . You’ll get a msconfig window.
• In the msconfig window click on Services tab, here you’ll get all the startup services list, click on “Hide Windows Services” all the windows related services will be hidden. now it’s only display the 3rd party installed services, now look on the list and then do Un-check the service which have contains MediaPlayer. Also Un-check all the unknown / unwanted services. then click on OK to apply all the changes.

Step 9 : To remove MediaPlayer browser hijkaer with Adwcleaner.exe

Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.

9.1 : Download AdwCleaner from the below link.

Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner.exe

9.2 : Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).

9.3 : When you get it started, click on scan button to search the MediaPlayer files and registry entries (As shown below screenshot).

9.5 : When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the MediaPlayer files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)

Step 10 : To remove MediaPlayer virus with Hitman-Pro

Click here to Download Hitmanpro_x32bit.exe

Click here to Download Hitmanpro_x64bit.exe

Step 11 : To remove MediaPlayer with Malwarebytes.

11.1 : Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free, then double click on it to install it.

Click Here to Download Malwarebytes.exe

11.2 : Update online Virus Definition

11.3 : Tick mark on “Perform quick scan” then click on Scan

11.4 : When the scan done click on “Show results”

11.5 : After clicking on Show result it will you a another window where you will get the found threats. Click on “Remove Selected”