Remove “Movies surfing” Chrome Extension

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The “Movies surfing” extension is supposed to be a useful application. Yet, appearances often deceive. This app is nothing but a malicious ad-supported program (adware). It exploits vulnerabilities in many online marketing platforms. Unfortunately, in this situation, you are the victim. The scheme is simple. The “Movies surfing” adware reroutes your web traffic. It takes just a few seconds. Yet, these second are enough for the adware to claim ad-revenue. This operation, however, slows your internet connection down. This issue is far not the only one. The malicious extension will also flood you with advertisements. It injects adverts all opened websites. Every page you open will soon be covered in ad banners and in-text adverts. Pop-up windows will force you to watch videos. On top of that, the videos you want to watch will be paused for ad breaks. You will hate the experience. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come. With every passing day, the marketing campaign will become more and more aggressive. Your web browser will struggle to display any page correctly. It will, eventually, become unstable. Some older machines may also experience system crashes. As we all know, this leads to data loss and a lot of frustration. Do not let this scenario unfold. Take action against the malicious extension. In fact, if you act promptly, you can remove it with ease. So, don’t waste your time. Remove the “Movies surfing” extension now!

How did I get infected with?

The “Movies surfing” Chrome Extension is part of massive “Add Extension” scam. The users are redirected to suspicious websites. There, a message states “Are you sure to leave this site?.” Yet, you just loaded the page. You haven’t had the chance to even try to leave it. At this point most users are confused. The message provides two buttons “Leave” and “Stay.” clicking on either one will result in you enabling the full-screen mode of your browser. And then, you will be asked to add the extension. This method, however, is just one of many. The “Movies surfing” extension is also distributed via torrents and freeware bundling. Yet, all these techniques rely on your negligence. Be vigilant instead. Your caution can keep your PC clean. Thus, when you install programs, opt for advanced installation option. Only under the Advanced installation can you see whether there are extra programs about to be installed. If there are, examine them carefully. Do some online research and read the terms and conditions. We know how annoying these steps may be. Yet, they are your only chance to spot breaches. If you think that something looks suspicious, abort the installation immediately. There are numerous dangerous infections out there. They wait for you to make a mistake. This time you were lucky. Yet, you can never know what kind of parasite will arrive next time.

Why is this dangerous?

The “Movies surfing” extension exposes its users to numerous commercials. It is annoying and obnoxious. Yet, given enough time, this app may become dangerous. You must have noticed that the ads you are exposed to are not random. They are all connected to your interest and needs. No, unfortunately, this is not a coincidence. The adware is not exposing you to just any kind of ads. It collects information about your online habits and uses that data to select the best adverts for you. Thus, if you use your computer to search the web for sneakers, the adware will start displaying discounts and coupons for sports shoes. It doesn’t sound too bad, does it? Well, the problem is, personally identifiable information may also get recorded. This data won’t be used for marketing purposes only. Once it has sufficient information about you, the adware will make it available for sale to third parties. Can you imagine what may happen if a hacker buys your usernames, passwords, credit card details, IP and email addresses? The consequences will be devastating. Do not risk it. Remove the “Movies surfing” extension before it is too late.

How to Remove Movies surfing virus

The “Movies surfing” infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the “Movies surfing” infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Track down “Movies surfing” in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate “Movies surfing” startup location

STEP 3: Delete “Movies surfing” traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down “Movies surfing” in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate “Movies surfing” startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean “Movies surfing” virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean “Movies surfing” traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the “Movies surfing” by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by “Movies surfing”

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for “Movies surfing”, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove “Movies surfing” argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove “Movies surfing” Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.