Friday, March 21, 2014

How to Remove Mood Tube Adware Virus

More Information about Mood Tube
Mood Tube is a very annoying adware virus which pretends itself as a normal online video watching programs and which claims that it can help computer users have a better video watching experience. If you are careless and let this program get inside your computer successfully, you have to deal with many terrible problems. Actually, even though you didn't download this application personally, it still can come into your computer together with other free programs which you have downloaded from internet.

Once your computer is infected, the default settings of your browsers will be modified by Mood Tube and it won't let you reset the settings. No matter how many times you have reset or reinstalled your browsers, Mood Tube still stays in your computer safely and stubbornly. Every time you open a new tab, overwhelming ads which are displayed by Mood Tube will pop out unexpectedly to cover the entire computer screen. Although you have closed them, they will still pop out again and again that will drive you crazy. If you click one of these ads, you may be redirected to some very infectious websites so that you have put your computer under a more dangerous situation.

Since Mood Tube can monitor your browsers, it can follow and collect the information about your internet activities. Thus, in the future it can make ads which are closer to what you have looked for to allure you to visit these commercial websites. Besides, it also will expose your personal information to cyber criminals for making illegal money. In a word, once you have detected the existence of Mood Tube, it's very essential for you to remove this adware virus from your computer as soon as possible.
Mood Tube Screenshot
Harmful Properties of Mood Tube
1. It changes browser settings and inserts many add-ons.
2. It displays lots of unwanted pop-up ads on your computer screen.
3. It may bring in more useless and harmful programs automatically.
4. It has the ability to monitor your internet activities and records information.
5. It exposes your personal information to cyber criminals.
6. It can't be removed completely by antivirus programs.
Mood Tube Manual Removal Guide
Before the removal, please first back up your system! You should be extremely careful when deleting any file, because any mistake may lead to system crashes and other severe consequence.
METHOD 1. Manual Removal
Step One:
Reboot the computer and before Windows interface loads, hit F8 key repeatedly. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.
 
Step Two:
Open Windows Task Manager and end virus processes. There are three ways to launch the Task Manager
① Press keys Ctrl+Alt+Del.
② Press keys Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
③ Press the Start button→click on the Run option→Type in taskmgr→press OK.
                                              
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK. 
                                                
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete Mood Tube files: 
%CommonAppData%\random.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
C:\Program Files\random
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all Mood Tube registry entries and keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchterms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "SearchAssistant" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchterms}"
 
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal 
To completely delete Mood Tube, you need to know that the manual removal above may not be able to remove virus  completely, because the creators of virus are always updating the virus version.Besides,any tiny mistake during the manual removal process may lead to severe consequences. Therefore,to ensure a complete and safe virus removal, it’s recommended that you get rid of virus with Automatic Mood Tube Removal Tool.                                                                                   


    

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