What is NewPlayer? - HOw DO I Remove NewPlayer?

How to remove NewPlayer from your computer? Unfortunately, I have this Trojan virus on my Lenovo laptop. I also searched the Internet, followed some removal guide online to help me out. But I cannot remove it completely. I am so frustrated that it keeps coming up after restart. I still cannot successfully remove the virus completely. It seems impossible to get rid of it. What can I do?

What is NewPlayer?

NewPlayer is detected by antivirus software and classified as a potential unwanted program. Technically speaking, NewPlayer is not a malicious computer virus, but as an ad-support program, the virus does possess quite a lot of annoying traits which may not only interrupt computer users to surf the internet freely, but also decline the PC performance day after day. After infiltrating into the target PC, this virus attaches it to all most all the existing browsers in the computer like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc. without computer users' knowledge and permission. After that, it displays advertisements and sponsors links within the web browser. In general, the Trojan infection comes from network. It sneaks into users'computers during your visits to doubtful websites, spam email attachments and free downloads and so on. After invading the computer, the Trojan virus may help some notorious ads-on, plug-ins and extensions to be installed secretly. Indeed, it is designed to damage the computer terribly. In details, the Trojan virus can display pesky pop-up ads during your online activities. Besides, it causes random redirection every time you click on a web link or search for favorite content. To make you very upset, the Trojan infection changes the desktop background, homepage and other computer settings without any consent. It may open a back door for remote hackers to visit the contaminated system secretly in order to collect users’ vital personal and financial information. Thus, it is very necessary for users to carry out a prompt manual removal of NewPlayer infection to enjoy clean computer environment soon.

Preventive Steps to Avoid this virus

Generally Trojan horse virus automatically gets installed without any user's knowledge. It enters your PC while downloading online games, music and video codec from unauthorized sites. So, you should follow following tips to prevent virus infection. 1.Always download programs or any kind of videos from an authorized website 2.Never click on unknown links 3.Take caution while opening any email attachments In this way you can prevent your PC from Trojan horse infection. However, if your system is affected by this dangerous virus then don't get panic remove NewPlayer immediately to minimize further damages. Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to NewPlayer and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to NewPlayer from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to NewPlayer.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of NewPlayer from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

As it is discussed, the NewPlayer virus does great harm to the target computer. It is designed to damage the contaminated system and pilfer important information from unknown computer users. In fact, the Trojan corrupts your computer greatly to cause system crash and computer freezing problems. It slows down the system performance and affects executable programs greatly. Most of your favorite settings are typically changed unexpectedly. As a matter of fact, many executable programs are corrupted by this Trojan to function normally, especially the anti-virus program.