Filmlicious Virus

Filmlicious

Filmlicious is a kind of undesirable software that will install a new search engine in your browser and replace the homepage address in order to spam you with ads. Filmlicious is also programmed to redirect your browsing activities to the sites of its partners.

If it seems that lately your browser has been turned into an advertising platform that constantly tries to expose you to as many ads as possible and page-redirect you to pages that you don’t want to visit, then the most likely culprit behind all this is a browser hijacker such as the newly released Filmlicious. The hijackers are a type of software that most experts regard as unwanted and some even deem malware. And while there’s certainly a big difference between hijackers and malware representatives such as Trojans and Ransomware, with the latter being far more harmful, if Filmlicious has managed to install in your Chrome, Firefox, Safari (or another browser) and change the settings of its homepage, toolbar, and search engine, you would probably be interested in learning how you may be able to stop all this and return things to normal.

Removing a browser hijacker like Filmlicious, however, isn’t a very simple job, and if you’ve already tried to do it on your own, you have more than likely realized that there isn’t an uninstallation wizard for this app, nor can it be found in the Control Panel’s list for uninstalling programs or in the extensions’ menu of your browser. And on the off chance that you have found an entry for the hijacker in the Control Panel or in your browser’s extensions’ manager that seemingly allows you to uninstall the invasive app, using this to remove Filmlicious has most likely not worked. Maybe the hijacker got removed from your browser for a little while only to return to it once you restart the browser or the computer. This normally happens because apps like Filmlicious tend to install additional elements in the system and make alternations in the computer’s Registry which allow them to re-install themselves even after having been removed. Therefore, not only will you have to remove the hijacker itself, but also you will have to find and remove these Registry changes and helper components that allow the invasive application to return. The good news is that we have done our best to prepare a set of instructions that will allow all of this article’s readers to deal with this browser hijacker and ensure that it doesn’t return to their browser.

Advice for the future

The guide and the tested anti-malware tool below will help you remove Filmlicious, but you must also make sure to keep your system clean in the future. The most common distribution tactic used for spreading hijackers is to bundle them with other programs. Therefore, always be sure to check each installer of software you want to install for any bonus elements added to it, which you may not want to install. If you see any such elements, first uncheck them and only then install the main program.

SUMMARY:

Name	Filmlicious
Type	Browser Hijacker
Detection Tool

Remove Filmlicious Virus

You are dealing with a malware infection that can restore itself unless you remove its core files. We are sending you to another page with a removal guide that gets regularly updated. It covers in-depth instructions on how to:
1. Locate and scan malicious processes in your task manager.
2. Identify in your Control panel any programs installed with the malware, and how to remove them. Search Marquis is a high-profile hijacker that gets installed with a lot of malware.
3. How to clean up and reset your browser to its original settings without the malware returning.
You can find the removal guide here.
For mobile devices refer to these guides instead: Android, iPhone.