How To Remove Gamers Buddy From System

Complete Guideline To Delete Gamers Buddy From PC

Gamers Buddy is a kind of nasty malware infection however, promoted as a useful tool for quick access to multiple Online games, gaming platforms, game distributors and so on. However, as per the deep research, it is indeed a browser hijacker program designed by a group of Cyber criminals for promotional and commercial purposes. Soon after getting into your system, this potentially unwanted program starts executing evil activities in the background and wreaks havoc onto the machine. Initially, it replaces the default browser’s setting such as home page, search engine and new tab URL with its own perilous domain and grabs complete control over the entire browser.

Does Gamers Buddy provide Organic Search results?

Gamers Buddy pretends to be a real search engine and claims to enhance users’ web browsing experience by providing most relevant, fast and authentic search results. It has been even designed in a manner that it looks similar to genuine search tools like Google, Yahoo and Bing. However, on the contradictory to whatsoever is claimed and how it appears, it is indeed a bogus search tool and only delivers inorganic outcomes which include sponsored links and lead you to affiliated web pages that you had never intended to visit.

Gamers Buddy injects various tracking cookies on the affected browser and constantly monitors your web activities like your search queries, pages viewed, links opened etc. It gathers important information regarding your interests, needs and other preferences which is then utilized by the authors for the advertisement campaign. And hence, you are flooded with thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that turns your Online browsing into nightmare. These ads include sponsored links and redirect you to third-party web pages upon being clicked where tons of products and services are promoted Gamers Buddy makes commission for the developers according to the hits it gets on its adverts and with each redirection. However, some sites might be fully occupied with malevolent contents, visiting on which may cause more malware intrusion.

Software Bundling – a Frequent Malware Distribution Technique:

Software bundling is a kind of application distribution method that allows freeware developers to attach their software with “optional downloads” in exchange for revenue. Browser hijacker, adware and other PUPs generally stand for those “optional downloads”. And hence, to protect the machine from such malware attack, it’s necessary to unpack each freeware package before installing it. For this purpose, you should always select Custom or Advanced installation mode instead of Quick or Basic and deselect the unwanted tools that look suspicious or unnecessary.

Quick Glance

Name- Gamers Buddy

Category- Browser hijacker, PUP

Description- Aims to promote third-party products, services and websites and make quick revenues for the developers.

Symptoms- Modifications in default browser and system’s settings, appearance of intrusive ads and pop-ups, redirects to unknown web pages and so on.

Distribution- Malicious File Downloads, Freeware or shareware installers, P2P file sharing, and many more.

Removal- Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

Other Harmful Traits of Gamers Buddy:

Gamers Buddy keeps executing evil activities in the background all the time which consumes enormous amount of memory resources and drags down the overall PC performance severely. Due to this, machine starts responding slower than ever before and takes more than usual time to complete any task. It displays fake update notifications stating that some of your vital apps need to be updated quickly and then tries to scam you into installing bogus software. This notorious PUP enables remote criminals to get access to your device and execute malicious deeds for their delicate welfare. This hazardous threat can be also responsible for the intrusion of many other Online infections such as Trojans, rootkits, worms, spyware and even deadly ransomware in your computer as it is able to deactivate all the running security services and open backdoors for them. And hence, don’t waste any time. Just take a quick action and remove Gamers Buddy from the machine by following the effective removal steps given below.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Gamers Buddy:

Remove the related items of Gamers Buddy using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Gamers Buddy issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Gamers Buddy) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Gamers Buddy removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Gamers Buddy still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Gamers Buddy plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Gamers Buddy removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Gamers Buddy (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.