Remove Mediakick.biz adware

Proper guide to delete Mediakick.biz

Mediakick.biz is nasty adware infection created by cyber crooks for making illegal profit. It is nicely crafted malware which is able to intrude into any windows based computer very easily. Once installed, it will generate lots of unwanted and annoying pop-up ads, banners, text ads, fake ads etc on your PC regularly. This virus can also modify the registries entries on your system that help this threat in getting back after removal.  Further, they cause redirects, deliver intrusive ads campaigns and track users browsing related information.

Moreover, it is capable of infecting nay of mostly used web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Edge, Safari and many others. It can modify your search engine and can also change the homepage of your browser. When you try to search anything, Mediakick.biz will display lots of unwanted ads and pop-ups on your screen. Those ads if clicked redirect you on other malicious websites or cause unwanted downloads of software. Due to these, your system speed and performance will totally degrade.

Furthermore, it can track your browsing habits and collect information extracted from it (such as visited websites, IP addresses, entered search queries, geo-locations and many other similar details). In some cases, they might also gather your sensitive details as well like credit card details, banking info, password etc. It can share those details with hackers who can use your identity for illegal purposes. In short, we can say that presence of PUAs on PC can cause serious privacy issues, financial loss and even identity theft.

Short summary

Name: Mediakick.biz

Threat Type: Push notifications ads, unwanted ads, Pop-up ads

Symptoms: Seeing advertisements not originating from the sites you are browsing. Intrusive pop-up ads. Decreased Internet browsing speed.

Distribution Methods: Deceptive pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications (adware), malicious ads, torrent file downloads.

Damage: Decreased computer performance, browser tracking – privacy issues, loss of sensitive data and infiltrate possible additional malware infections.

Removal: To eliminate malware infections such as Mediakick.biz, our security researchers recommend scanning your computer with Spyhunter.

How did adware install on my system?

Usually, PUAs are distributed via installation setups of other programs. In such cases, developers include PUAs in setups as additional offers and think that users will not decline them. This distribution method of potentially unwanted apps is known as bundling. Usually, it can be done by using custom, advanced and other similar settings or by unticking certain checkboxes.

However, not all people check all those aforementioned settings and keep them remain unchanged and unchecked and they download and install not only desired programs but also agree with offers to install additionally included apps. Apart from this, PUAs can be caused by intrusive adverts. If clicked, those ads can execute scripts to download and install PUAs without having user’s permission.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

It is recommended to check downloader’s for offers to download or install any PUAs before finishing installation processes. As we mentioned above that aforementioned offers can be found in custom or advanced settings. It is advised to download files and programs only from trustworthy websites. Other unreliable download sources should be avoided. Moreover, it is recommended not to click on ads that appears on questionable sites as those ads appear on them are designed to promote other unreliable pages or even cause unwanted downloads/installations. All unwanted apps that are already installed on a browser should be removed from it instantly.

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 Mediakick.biz:

Remove the related items of Mediakick.biz 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 Mediakick.biz 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 (Mediakick.biz) 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 Mediakick.biz 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 Mediakick.biz 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 Mediakick.biz 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 Mediakick.biz 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 Mediakick.biz (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.