{"id":5789,"date":"2015-04-09T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T07:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:58:31","slug":"how-to-remove-webprotector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-webprotector\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove WebProtector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello guys and gals. Just a short post on a named Web Protector<\/strong>. If you have Web Protector installed on your computer, you will notice a new service called LiveUpdateWPP.exe<\/a>, new add-ons\/toolbars added in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and WebProtectorPlus.exe<\/a> running in the Windows Task Manager.<\/p>\n

\"WebProtectorPlus.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll show how to remove WebProtector in this blog post with the FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool.<\/p>\n

Web Protector is distributed by a method called bundling<\/strong>. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software’s installers. Here’s how it appeared in the installer:<\/p>\n

\"web<\/a><\/p>\n

As usual when I run into some new bundled software I uploaded it to VirusTotal<\/a> to verify if the anti-malware scanners there detect anything suspicious. 6 of the 57 scanners detected the file. Some of the detection names for Web Protector are Adware.Win32.Similagro.B, ApplicUnwnt, PUP.Optional.WebProtector.A and WS.Reputation.1.<\/p>\n

Removing Web Protector<\/strong> is straightforward with FreeFixer<\/a>. Just check the Web Protector files as shown in the screen-caps below. You might have to restart your machine to complete the removal. Problem fixed.<\/p>\n

\"LiveUpdateWPP.exe<\/a> \"WebProtector.dll<\/a> \"Web<\/a> \"Web<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope this helped you remove the Web Protector .<\/p>\n

Did you also find Web Protector on your computer? Any idea how it installed? Please share by posting a comment. Thank you!<\/p>\n

Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello guys and gals. Just a short post on a named Web Protector. If you have Web Protector installed on your computer, you will notice a new service called LiveUpdateWPP.exe, new add-ons\/toolbars added in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and WebProtectorPlus.exe running in the Windows Task Manager. I’ll show how to remove WebProtector in this … Continue reading How To Remove WebProtector<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789"}],"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=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}