Vidplayer Virus

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This page aims to help you remove Vidplayer Virus. Our removal instructions work for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, as well as every version of Windows.

The page that you landed on is focused on a recently discovered version of a browser hijacker called Vidplayer Virus. If you are looking for more details about this program, the way it operates, the way it spreads and the possible options to remove it, then this is the right place for you. In the next lines, we will provide you with all the basic characteristics of Vidplayer Virus as well as a free removal guide, with the help of which, you can safely remove it from your Chrome, Firefox, Explorer, or any other browser which has been invaded. This will save you completely from all the nagging ads, pop-ups, page redirects and unwanted modifications in your homepage or default search engine.

How can you know that you have been infected with a browser hijacker?

When software like Vidplayer Virus finds its way inside your system, you will almost immediately notice that your default browser may start to behave strangely. It may start to broadcast a huge number of different online ads, which may come in the form of pop-ups, banners, blinking boxes, links, and notifications. Another indication that you have been invaded by a browser hijacker is the possible replacement of the default homepage or the search engine with some unfamiliar one, the installation of some new toolbar or the sudden redirection of your searches to various unknown web pages that you did not intend to visit. You can expect this activity to happen every time you open your browser and try to surf the web and, unfortunately, you won’t be able to bring back your previous browser settings or remove the popping ads unless you fully uninstall the browser hijacker from your PC.

How can you get infected?

Vidplayer Virus, as any other browser hijacker, doesn’t really “infect” you the way that a computer virus would do. This type of software usually gets installed on your system with your permission and this happens when you run a software bundle or some automatic setup of other program. The trick here is that you may not really be aware that the browser hijacker is included in the installer because it may not clearly notify you about its presence unless you manually check the bundle and customize it. In case that you simply run the setup through the Automatic/ Quick/ Standard option and skip checking for additionally bundled software (which can easily be done through the Advanced/ Custom/ Manual installation), you may end up with some potentially unwanted program like Vidplayer Virus or some other type of bloatware on your system.

Can Vidplayer Virus put your computer at risk?

Many people tend to get disturbed about the way Vidplayer Virus behaves and invades their system. A lot of them even mistake the browser hijacker for some nasty type of virus infection and panic. The truth is that there isn’t really a need for such an overreaction because browser hijackers have nothing in common with computer viruses or with any other form of malware such as Trojan horses, Spyware or Ransomware. Pieces of software like Vidplayer Virus are nothing more than simple advertising tools, commonly used by the online marketing industry. They apply the browser modifications, redirects and ads streaming mentioned above with only one purpose – to display different products, services, sponsored advertisements and web pages on your screen while you are browsing. In a way, this can be seen as a bit of an aggressive marketing approach, but in its core it has no aim to corrupt your system, nor can it cause some type of malfunction, let alone encrypt your files or perform some type of criminal activity a Trojan or a Ransomware based virus surely can do. That’s why most security experts don’t consider the browser hijacker to be a serious computer threat.

Still, not being a virus doesn’t mean that Vidplayer Virus can’t be nagging and disturbing. This program may cause you frequent browsing interruptions, which may not only be irritating but also very invasive. For example, the browser hijacker may extract some marketing-oriented data from your browser for the purposes of its effective ads positioning and targeting. It may keep track of your latest web searches, your browsing history, bookmarks and the pages that you visit with the idea to redirect you to ads, which may somehow relate to your latest web activity. As a result, you may find yourself dealing with a stream of pop-ups, banners, links and different promotional pages every minute or two, which may be bearable for half an hour, but may become really intolerable in the long term.  Precisely this behavior of the hijackers has gained them the reputation of potentially unwanted programs, which the users would rather uninstall than keep on their system.

SUMMARY:

Name Vidplayer Virus
Type  Adware/Browser Hijacker
Detection Tool

Vidplayer Virus Removal

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


About the author

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Lidia Howler

Lidia is a web content creator with years of experience in the cyber-security sector. She helps readers with articles on malware removal and online security. Her strive for simplicity and well-researched information provides users with easy-to-follow It-related tips and step-by-step tutorials.

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