How To Remove Ultra Movies Search From Infected Browser

Proper Guide To Delete Ultra Movies Search From Computer

Ultra Movies Search is a fake search engine that claims to enhance users’ web browsing experience by providing most relevant, authentic and fast search results. It has been even designed in a manner that it looks like genuine search tools like Google, Yahoo and Bing. However, in reality it is not more than just a potentially unwanted program that doesn’t give any sort of benefits to the users. Once your computer gets infected with this browser hijacker, you will notice various strange things begin to happen in your work-station. Your default browser’s settings such as home page, search engine and new tab URL are replaced without your consent. Ultra Movies Search redirects your web searches to links you had not intended to visit.

The real objective of the hackers behind developing this PUP is to boost traffic for third-party websites and make quick revenues from rookie users. And to accomplish its purpose, it conducts a series of malicious activities in the background. This notorious malware bombards your computer screen with thousands of annoying ads and pop-ups all over the day turns your web sessions into nightmare. These ads include sponsored links by clicking on which, you are redirected to third-party web portals where numerous products and services are promoted. Ultra Movies Search makes commission for the developers according to the hits it gets on its adverts and with each redirection.

Learn How PUP Spreads. Avoid It:

Security experts strongly suggest all users to be very careful while downloading application and services from suspicious third-party network. There is a large number of programs that come connected into one bundle and show up on your PC system if you have chosen the Quick/Recommended installation mode. As an alternative, we recommend selecting the Custom or Advanced configuration setting where you can control all incoming downloads by yourself. Here, you will be delivered with a list of all pending apps and be able to sort them out. If you find anything questionable or malicious, you can easily terminate it from the menu.

Quick Glance

Name- Ultra Movies Search

Category- Browser hijacker, PUP

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

Symptoms- Changes 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 Malevolent Acts of Ultra Movies Search:

Ultra Movies Search is able to monitor your web activities and gather important information regarding your interests, needs and other preferences by the help of which, its authors generate and display eye-catching advertisements to get as many clicks as possible and earn maximum revenues via pay-per-click mechanism. It makes spiteful entries in boot section and alters its default settings in order to get automatically activated with each Window reboot. It ruins vital system files which assure smooth computer functioning and prevents many installed apps as well as drivers from working in an appropriate manner.

Ultra Movies Search can be a big threat for your privacy too as it is capable of stealing your personal data relating to banking and other financial details and sharing them with hackers for evil purposes. Cyber criminals can misuse your sensitive information for generating illicit profits and cause you to suffer a big financial loss. This notorious hijacker keeps performing evil acts in the background all the time which consumes huge amount of memory resources and drags down the overall computer performance severely. Due to this, machine starts responding in a very slow manner and takes more than usual time to complete any task. So, don’t waste any time, just take an instant action and remove Ultra Movies Search from the PC 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 Ultra Movies Search:

Remove the related items of Ultra Movies Search 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 Ultra Movies Search 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 (Ultra Movies Search) 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 Ultra Movies Search 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 Ultra Movies Search 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 Ultra Movies Search 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 Ultra Movies Search 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 Ultra Movies Search (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.