What is Mediplayclassic.info?
Mediplayclassic.info belongs to the potentially unwanted program, but it is not a viral program as most people got used to think. It’s just a hijacker that is able to spoil users’ experience on the Internet. Once installed, it will get your browser configurations spoiled to fill your browser with sponsored content. It alters and changes search results without any permission so that you can’t actually find anything useful but the tons of advertisement. This is quite unpleasant because even if you try to get rid of Mediplayclassic.info and change your homepage, it will come back and become your homepage again and again.
Mediplayclassic.info also collects the user’s personal information related to his browsing habits. All collected data is transferred to third-party companies which may use them for selfish purposes. There are two ways of solving this issue. You may use our manual tutorial in order to remove Mediplayclassic.info from your browser and computer, you probably need some knowledge in IT, it will also take some time. If you don’t want to spend your time on manual removal, you should try our removal tool – it will remove Mediplayclassic.info in a few clicks.
How to remove Mediplayclassic.info?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Mediplayclassic.info completely. For this, you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as Mediplayclassic.info files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to automatic removal tool.
Norton is a powerful tool that is able to keep your Mac clean. It would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Mediplayclassic.info. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Mediplayclassic.info, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Mediplayclassic.info manual removal
Uninstall Mediplayclassic.info from the system
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Mediplayclassic.info you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
Remove Mediplayclassic.info from Applications
- Open a Finder window
- Click Applications line on the sidebar
- Select the application related to Mediplayclassic.info right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove Mediplayclassic.info from Profiles
- Launch System Preferences
- Select Profiles at the bottom of window.
- Choose AdminPrefs profile, click “-“ icon and enter password.
Remove Mediplayclassic.info using Terminal
- Open Terminal
- Copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES - Press Return
- Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
- Navigate to: /Users/yourmacname/Library/Application Support/
- Delete Folder: Agent
- Go back to Terminal and copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO - Press Return
- Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
Remove Mediplayclassic.info from browsers
Since most of the hijacker threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Mediplayclassic.info from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Mediplayclassic.info or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Mediplayclassic.info from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Mediplayclassic.info or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Mediplayclassic.info from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Mediplayclassic.info or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting Mediplayclassic.info.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Mediplayclassic.info removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover Mediplayclassic.info.
