{"id":3996,"date":"2015-01-20T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:02","slug":"remove-movie-wizard-adware-from-small-island-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-movie-wizard-adware-from-small-island-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Movie Wizard Adware From Small Island Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. Today I wanted to talk about an <strong>adware<\/strong> called <strong>Movie Wizard<\/strong> and thought I should give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. If Movie Wizard is installed and running on your system, you will find MovieWizardService.exe running in the Windows Task Manager. I&#8217;ll show how to remove Movie Wizard in this blog post with the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool in case the removal from the Windows Control Panel fails.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-Small-Island-Development.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-Small-Island-Development.png\" alt=\"Movie Wizard Small Island Development\" width=\"671\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-Small-Island-Development.png 671w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-Small-Island-Development-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MovieWizard is distributed by a tactic called <strong>bundling<\/strong>. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software&#8217;s installers.\u00a0Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as MovieWizard by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.<\/p>\n<p>When I find some new bundled software I usually upload it to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> to test if the anti-malwares there find something interesting. 12 of the 57 anti-virus scanners detected the file. The Movie Wizard files are detected as <strong>Adware\/PullUpdate.AP<\/strong> by Avira, <strong>a variant of MSIL\/Adware.PullUpdate.G.gen<\/strong> by ESET-NOD32, <strong>PUP.Optional.MovieWizard.A<\/strong> by Malwarebytes, <strong>Artemis<\/strong> by McAfee-GW-Edition and <strong>Adware\/TVWizard<\/strong> by Panda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-virustotal.png\" alt=\"Movie Wizard virustotal\" width=\"793\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-virustotal.png 793w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Movie-Wizard-virustotal-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You probably came here looking for <strong>removal instructions for Movie Wizard<\/strong> and you can do so with the <a title=\"About the FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool. Here&#8217;s a few screenshots that should help you along the way: A reboot of your computer may be required to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizardService.exe-process-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizardService.exe-process-remove.png\" alt=\"MovieWizardService.exe process remove\" width=\"552\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizardService.exe-process-remove.png 552w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizardService.exe-process-remove-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizard-service.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizard-service.png\" alt=\"MovieWizard service\" width=\"770\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizard-service.png 770w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MovieWizard-service-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you with the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Did you also find Movie Wizard on your computer? Any idea how it installed? Please share by posting a comment. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. Today I wanted to talk about an adware called Movie Wizard and thought I should give you some removal instructions. If Movie Wizard is installed and running on your system, you will find MovieWizardService.exe running in the Windows Task Manager. 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