Remove MetAI assistant From System

Simple Steps To Eliminate Advertising Software

MetAI assistant is advertised as a tool through which users can use “OpenAI” on the Facebook platform. Nonetheless, research says that it’s indeed an adware which tends to display annoying advertisements on users’ screen and gather their sensitive data. It shows pop-up ads, banners, pop-unders, in-text links, flashing messages and other types of advertising contents while the browser is being employed on each web page users visit. It cannot damage the compromised system but the content it advertises may sometimes be quite dangerous. For this reason, you need to stay away from its ads and remove MetAI assistant from the device ASAP.

Threat Details

Name: MetAI assistant

Class: Adware, Potentially unwanted program

Features: Interrupts users’ online sessions with advertising contents and also redirects them to anxious web places

Danger level: Medium

Signs: Intrusive ads flow, page-redirects, slow browser performance

Distribution: Usually gets into the PC systems via bundled freeware

MetAI assistant: Depth Analysis

Adware-type programs are in general the most common sources of hostile commercial contents and redirect links and until you eliminate them, they will continuously flood your screen with adverts during every online session. While browsing the internet, it’s absolutely usual to encounter many different advertising contents, especially if users visit ad-supported or promotional domains. Nevertheless, very commonly, the origin of the adverts may be the unwanted application that’s got installed on the computer. This category of program is known as adware and the MetAI assistant, Adblock fast virus, etc. are one of its examples.

Designed with the intention of generating as many advertising contents as possible and to reroute the victims to as many sponsored webpages as possible, the advertising app may significantly disrupt the regular online activity of anyone and may turn out to be a source of undesired disturbances and annoyance. During the time the PUP runs on your system, you may have to cope with numerous pop-up prompts, different promotional links, offers and reroute ads, the hostility of which will really frustrate you. Besides, some of the redirects caused by MetAI assistant may lead you to potentially dangerous websites with malicious contents.

Infiltration Of Advertising App:

Many people end up getting intruded by unwanted programs like this after downloading and installing fee software bundle from insecure websites. PUPs are packed within the installers of regular software as optional elements. This illusive marketing tactic of spreading adware or hijacker is known as software bundling. You can avoid this happening by opting for the reliable download channel and not rushing through the download and installation steps. Always select the Advanced or Custom configuration wizard in order to see all the programs included to the software package and opt-out the unnecessary or questionable ones.

FAQs

Can MetAI assistant damage my computer?

Adware-type programs are not supposed cause any significant damage inside the PC systems. They are far from being as damaging as a Trojan or ransomware, yet, they’re not risk-free either. They can still annoy you with invasive ad-generating and page-redirecting campaign, so you shouldn’t take it lightly.

Why does the PUP show me a lot of ads?

The main purpose of the intruder behind displaying tons of advertising contents is to generate the pay-per-click revenue. Every time users click on an ad shown by the adware, its creators earn a small bit of money. So, it tries to expose them to as many commercials as possible.

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 MetAI assistant:

Remove the related items of MetAI assistant 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 MetAI assistant 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 (MetAI assistant) 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 MetAI assistant 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 MetAI assistant 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 MetAI assistant 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 MetAI assistant 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 MetAI assistant (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.