Virus Removal Tips: Guide to Remove JW Player Effectively and Safely

Have annoyed about JW Player? what is it?

Recently JW Player has been complained by many computer users. What is it? It is classified as an adware or potentially unwanted program which can trigger annoying ads to interfere with your browsing activities. According to the users report, those pop-up ads can randomly appear and then they seem to go away, but then they keeps coming back to interfere with your browsing activities.
What is it aimed for? It is designed to promote unwanted service or programs. To achieve its promoting purpose, it is not only can automatically pop up but also can hijack your new tab.

Potential risks of having JW Player

It can take up your internet resource and system resource on the backdoor, which will make your computer run sluggish and weirdly.
It can make changes of your default browser settings and invite other unwanted programs installed on your computer.
It can record your online traces on the backdoor, which is unsafe for your information security.
It can get itself attached to your web browsers one by one.

Usually JW Playercan come into your computer via various ways. for example, it gets into your computer via deceptive marketing method called "bundling".Besides, visiting questionable websites, getting fake updates, clicking malicious pop-up ads or links will also be the ways to get infected malware.

How do I manually remove JW Player

Step 1.End up all suspicious related process

Step 2. Remove related add-on from browsers

Internet Explorer :

1. Click on the Tools -> select Manage Add-ons;
2. Go to Toolbars and Extensions tab ->right click on JW Player-> select Disable in the drop-down menu;

Mozilla Firefox :

1. Click on the orange Firefox button on the upper left corner of the browser -> hit Add-ons;
2. Go to Extensions tab ->select JW Player->Click Remove;
3. If it pops up, click Restart and your tabs will be saved and restored.

Google Chrome :

1. Click on Customize icon (Wrench or 3 bar icon) -> Select Settings -> Go to Extensions tab;
2. Locate JW Player and select it -> click Trash button.

Step 3.Disable any suspicious start up items from JW Player

For Windows Xp: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the Run box -> click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible start up items generated from JW Player.

For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible start up items generated from JW Player.

For windows 8
1) Press Ctrl +Alt+Delete and select Task Manager
2) When access Task Manager, click Start up tab.
3) Locate and disable suspicious start up item according to the directory.

Step 4: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all related registry entries:

1. Click Start and Type "Run" in Search programs and files box and press Enter
2. Type "regedit" in the Run box and click "OK"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ BrowserSafeguard \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0

Step 5:Restart your computer to check the effectiveness.

Method two: Automatically remove JW Player Permanently with SpyHunter.

SpyHunter is a powerful anti-spyware application which is aimed to help computer users to get rid of computer virus completely. It is easy to use and can get along well with other anivirus.

Step one: Download SpyHunter on your computer by clicking the icon below.