{"id":452,"date":"2014-05-18T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=452"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:54","slug":"remove-mplayerplus_01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-mplayerplus_01\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove MPlayerPlus_01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found a new adware variant called\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong>. You might have found it in the Windows Task Manager where it appears as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/MPlayerplus_01-nova.exe-127274\/\"><strong>Mplayerplus_01-nova.exe<\/strong><\/a> or when\u00a0inspecting the add-ons in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-453 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-firefox.png\" alt=\"Mplayerplus_01 0.94.34 Firefox\" width=\"505\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-firefox.png 505w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-firefox-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2014-05-22<\/strong>: There seems to be another variant around called <strong>MPP<\/strong>, that uses filenames such as\u00a0MPP-bho64.dll,\u00a0MPP-bho.dll,\u00a0MPP-codedownloader.exe,\u00a0MPP-novainstaller.exe,\u00a0MPP-nova.exe and\u00a0MPP-bg.exe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2014-05-26<\/strong>: Just found another variant. It is called <strong>MPMP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2014-05-27:<\/strong> Seems like the\u00a0MPlayerPlus_01 constantly updates its name. I&#8217;ll list any future name here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MediaPlayer+<\/li>\n<li>Media_play_er+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong> while checking out a free media player download. In my case the installer disclosed that <strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong> was bundled. Currently only a few anti-virus programs flag\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-virus-total.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-458 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-virus-total.png\" alt=\"MPlayerplus_01 is reported as CrossRider by Virus Total\" width=\"700\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-virus-total.png 700w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-virus-total-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The anti-virus vendors report <strong>MPlayerPlus<\/strong> as\u00a0<strong>CrossRider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>How did you get\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong> on your machine? Was it bundled with some free downloads, and if so, was it disclosed that\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong>\u00a0would be installed along with the download?<\/p>\n<p>Removing\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong> with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> is a piece of cake. All you need to do is to select the\u00a0<strong>MPlayerplus_01<\/strong> files for removal and click the Fix button.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-tasks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-tasks.png\" alt=\"MPlayerplus_01 Scheduled Tasks\" width=\"912\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-tasks.png 912w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-tasks-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-Internet-Explorer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-455 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-Internet-Explorer.png\" alt=\"Mplayerplus_01 in Internet-Explorer\" width=\"917\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-Internet-Explorer.png 917w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mplayerplus_01-Internet-Explorer-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-firefox-freefixer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-454 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-firefox-freefixer.png\" alt=\"MPlayerplus_01 Firefox Extension in  Freefixer\" width=\"919\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-firefox-freefixer.png 919w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MPlayerplus_01-firefox-freefixer-300x69.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a removal video where I show FreeFixer in action deleting <strong>Mplayerplus<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ed2d3EyG9M\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you to figure out what MPlayerplus_01 is and how to remove it. If you like, please post a comment and share what you know about\u00a0MPlayerplus_01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found a new adware variant called\u00a0MPlayerplus_01. You might have found it in the Windows Task Manager where it appears as Mplayerplus_01-nova.exe or when\u00a0inspecting the add-ons in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: Update 2014-05-22: There seems to be another variant around called MPP, that uses filenames such as\u00a0MPP-bho64.dll,\u00a0MPP-bho.dll,\u00a0MPP-codedownloader.exe,\u00a0MPP-novainstaller.exe,\u00a0MPP-nova.exe and\u00a0MPP-bg.exe. Update 2014-05-26: Just found another variant. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-mplayerplus_01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Remove MPlayerPlus_01<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[74,100,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}