How to Remove "MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS" Virus (Easy Guide)

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What is MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS?

MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS is classified as Win32:PUP-gen (potentially unwanted program).

MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS detected as PUP.AD.PRO.
What is PUP? PUP is crapware.
MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS have several types of unwanted behaviour:

Displaying popup ads.
Hijacking your browser.
Infecting your desktop shortcuts, etc.
Inserting ads to the web pages.

MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS can redirect your browser search, collect your personal information and sell it for advertising.
MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS is usually hard in removing. Some people could not find uninstall program for MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS in the Control Panel.
Sometimes MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS uninstaller does not work.

How MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS got on your computer?

Usually you got MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS with as part of a bundle with another tool you downloaded from the Internet. Since MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS manufacturer pays software developers for distributing MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS within their applications, MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS is often included as part of the installer.
Usually, you have not only one MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS problem, but a bunch of similar WIN32:PUPs.

You have 2 ways to remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

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Here’s how to remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS virus automatically:

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STEP 3: Remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS virus (3 minutes)

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How to remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

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STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove MEDIA CONVERTER PRO PROMOS from scheduled task list.