What is Rich Media? - How Do I Remove the Rich Media?

Do you want to remove Rich Media as it is useless? Is it difficult to get rid of Rich Media from Windows 7? Are you confused that you had removed Rich Media from Windows Control Panel, but it was still there?

What is Rich Media?

Rich Media is a malicious adware virus which brings great damages to the target computer. It is usually released by cyber criminals through network, such as harmful websites and free downloads and so on. Soon as the adware virus arrives, it installs in the computer and runs automatically every time the affected system starts. It is capable to exploit the system leaks to drop many hazardous codes to the victimized computer, and these codes can be malware and spyware. It also changes the system files and registry entries and even creates new affected files in the computer. Consequently, PC users will notice that the computer just performs extremely slowly, and it gets stuck easily at startup, shutdown and website loading processes. Indeed, the adware virus must be removed from the contaminated system immediately. As the adware can cause serious damages to the computer once it is left in the computer for a long time, and these unexpected damages include system crash, blue screen errors and system file missing issues e tc. To avoid any further loss, PC users should take actions to delete the stubborn Rich Media virus from the computer completely. This virus infection is a malicious Trojan infection which allows hackers to remotely access the infected computer and control it. In addition, the infected computer is also exposed to third party. The creator of the Trojan horse attack can install additional virus or malware on the infected PC. Performance is greatly affected by the virus and the infecting rage is wider. The most important results can be infected computer. You may be very suffered a bad PC performance. You will also realize that some of unknown malware has been installed in the computer that you cannot operate normally. As a result, you may find more than one infection in your computer; firewall will be more and more fragile and hardware may collapse.

A Trojan horse is something that is actually incredible diverse and harmful to the computer. Thus, this is something that provides an incredible amount of damage and harm to any computer as well as potentially the identity of the owner. Thus, they are something that allows for an incredible difficulty in removing as well. This is a virus that definitely lives up to its name in the historical sense. When opening an attachment found on an email, the virus immediately attacks the computer and begins a great deal of damage. Often, they are disguised as being something very beneficial to the computer and user. 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 Rich Media and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Rich Media 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 Rich Media.

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 Rich Media from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

From the above passage, you can realize Rich Media turning to be a dangerous rogue program. The main threat of this malware is that it redirects your search results to unsafe websites contains false contents, which brings you into a scam. This malware makes your system be shown into threat and even use antivirus delete it, it will come back to users’ computer in a minute. Once your computer gets infected with it, cyber criminals can monitor your computer using traces in background. In order to protect your computer and your privacy, we strongly recommend you to remove it as early as possible.