Remove Max Video Player Chrome Extension (Adware)

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Max Video Player is a browser extension which you should remove immediately. The app is an ad-displaying parasite. It falls under the Adware umbrella. The Max Video Player adware uses trickery to get installed. It targets Chrome, but it’s also capable of infecting other browsers. Opera, Edge, Firefox, there is no immune program. The parasite corrupts them and takes over your browsing experience. Once the adware calls your browser “home,” prepare for trouble. The invader alters your settings and takes full control of your poor browser. The adware then infinities an aggressive ad-bombardment. It displays ads on every website you load. When you click on them, it gets paid. Thus, it never stops. The adware floods your browser with various coupons, discounts, and “great offers.” If you, however, refuse to click, it changes its tactics. It intensives the ad-bombardment, as well as starts browser redirection. The parasite opens sponsored websites in new tabs and windows. This invader knows no boundaries. It gets more and more aggressive with each passing day. The Max Video Player adware even dares pause your online videos for commercial breaks. Its aggressive behavior, unfortunately, is not harmless. It takes a toll on your device. The adware causes system underperformance, browser crashes, and Internet connection instability. Can you imagine getting any task done in such conditions? The Max Video Player adware prevents you from using your computer normally. It ruins your browsing experience. Do not put up with this situation. Remove the invader before it gets a chance to get out of control. The sooner you remove the adware, the better!

How did I get infected with?

The Max Video Player adware uses mass-distribution strategies to reach a broad spectrum of potential victims. It hides in software bundles, fake updates, and torrents. The adware lurks in the shadows and waits for you to make a mistake. To get installed, this parasite needs your approval. No permission, no admission! That’s the rule. If you act impulsively, you are very likely to approve its installation unintentionally. Most of the free apps we download off the web come bundled with bonus programs. The extras, unfortunately, are often parasites like the Max Video Player adware. Do not rush through any installation process. When available, use the advanced/custom installation option. Under it, you would able to prevent the unwanted apps from installing. If you use the standard/fast installation, the extras would get installed automatically. Be careful what you install.
Choose caution over carelessness. One keeps the parasites away, the other – invites them in. No anti-virus app can protect you if you act recklessly. Only your caution can keep your device secure. Always take the time to do your due diligence. Read the terms and conditions before you agree to them. If you cannot spare enough time to read the whole document, scan it with an online EULA analyzer. Abort the installation process if you detect anything suspicious.

Why is this dangerous?

At first glance, the Max Video Player adware appears to be a mere annoyance. If you, however, take a look at the whole picture, you would notice how dangerous this parasite is. The adware has full control of your browser. A criminal, for example, can use it to redirect you to infected websites. The parasite threatens to further corrupt your system. It also is quite capable of stealing sensitive information. To present you with relevant ads, the adware monitors your browsing-related data. In theory, if you enter “sneakers” into a search engine, the adware would display ads for sports shoes. In practice, you get flooded with countless deceiving advertisements. The Max Video Player adware has no security mechanism. Anyone willing to pay can use the adware and the collected information. Numerous crooks are more than happy to pay. They use the collected data to create irresistible adverts and ingenious schemes. The crooks show you what you want to see, but when you click, bad things happen. Do not risk it! The Max Video Player adware is too hazardous. It turns you into an easy target! Your best course of action is its immediate removal!

How to Remove Max Video Player virus

The Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Max Video Player startup location

STEP 3: Delete Max Video Player traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player

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 Max Video Player, 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 Max Video Player 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 Max Video Player 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.