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Bwplayer is an adware program. These applications are rather dangerous. They threaten both your system’s well-being, as well as your privacy. Not to mention, the risk they pose to your mental stability. Each time, you even touch your browser, you face a wall of interference. The adware makes sure to flood your screen with intrusions. That gets annoying, pretty fast. But it’s not only frustration that you face. Yes, Bwplayer throws you into a whirl of unpleasantness. It meddles with your online activities, and deteriorates your system’s performance. But, as mentioned, it also takes aim at your privacy. The infection follows instructions to spy on you from the moment it invades. And, so it does. Its espionage begins, following infiltration. The tool keeps track of your browsing habits, and records your every move. After it decides it has collected enough information, it proceeds to send it. Let that sink in. The infection steals data from you. And, then exposes it. It hands it over to the cyber criminals, behind it. That mans, these strangers with agendas, have access to your sensitive details. Are you okay with that? Are you going to allow them such power over you? Keep your privacy private! Don’t let your personal and financial details get stolen and exposed. Find and delete the adware ASAP. Once the opportunity presents itself, locate its exact lurking place. Then, get rid of it. The sooner, the better. Delays have consequences, so don’t delay.

How did I get infected with?

Adware applications are masterful in the art of deception. They turn to trickery and finesse to gain access to your PC. And, not only do they manage to invade. But, they do so, by getting you to approve them in. Yes, you give the tool the green light of admission. Odds are, you don’t recall doing it. But you did. Bwplayer cannot enter your PC without first asking if you approve its install. And, of course, receiving your consent. If you deny it, it can’t proceed. That’s why, the tool does its best to get you to say YES. It uses the old but gold invasive methods. Like, freeware, fake updates, spam emails. It turns to the usual antics. As sly as it is, you provide the final ingredient for its successful sneaking in. Distraction. The infection cannot get you to give it your YES, unless you’re careless. It needs you to give into distraction, and naivety. To rush, and skip doing due diligence. To rely on luck, and leave your fate to chance. It needs you to choose carelessness over caution. If you do, that eases its covert infiltration. Would you want that? To allow the infection easy access into your computer? Don’t throw caution to the wind! Always take the time to be vigilant, and do your research. Even a little extra attention goes a long way. Caution keeps infections out. Carelessness invites them in. Don’t forget that.

Why is this dangerous?

Bwplayer turns your browsing into a hellish experience. The tool intervenes every time you go online. It floods your screen with interference. Each time, you attempt to surf the web, it’s there to intrude. It puts you through an avalanche of advertisements. You get stuck with banner, in-text, and pop-up ads. And, that doesn’t include the suspicious sites, it throws your way. The adware redirects you to malicious pages, non-stop. Open a new tab? Type in a search? Do anything at all! Prepare to get redirected to third-party pages, and see a whole lot of ads. That happens all day, every day. And, it doesn’t go unnoticed. Pretty soon, your system starts to suffer frequent crashes. Your computer slows down, and lagging turns into a daily occurrence. Having an adware on your PC is a nightmare. Don’t keep it! Once you become aware of its existence, act towards its prompt removal. Don’t delay. Don’t waste time in debates. There are no merits to the program. All, it brings your way, is headaches and grievances. Do your best to discover its exact hiding place the first chance you get. Then, remove it from your computer. That ensures your system’s safety, as well as yours. Act fast.

How to Remove Bwplayer virus

The Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Bwplayer startup location

STEP 3: Delete Bwplayer traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer

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 Bwplayer, 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 Bwplayer 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 Bwplayer 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.