Muvic Smart Bar Cause Homepage Replacement and Muvic.exe Error Messages, How to Remove?

Uninstall Muvic Smart Bar

OUTLINE

• The problems with the toolbar
• Brief introduction on Muvic Smart Bar’s property and purpose
• Potential dangers should be prevented
• Follow thread to remove Muvic Smart Bar
• Other related posts

Muvic Smart Bar Problems

• Many more sponsored links appear to ruin surfing experience.
• Both PC performance and page-loading speed are slowed down a lot.
• The installation of Muvic Smart Bar change homepage to snap.do.
• Errors are triggered.
• Pop-up ads increase in frequency.

What Is Muvic Smart Bar and the Purpose?

Muvic Smart Bar is an ad-supported web browser plugin pushed by PinWid Ltd. It is a freeware that spreads itself by bundling third-party programs and promising to download them when it settles on a machine. This is why you got many more unknown programs installed ever after.

What Muvic Smart Bar aims at is money –

1. By promoting third-party programs, it earns a portion of commission.
2. By reselling the online whereabouts it tracks down to online operators/advertisers who want to improve online marketing strategy, it fills its pocket.
3. By intercepting and directing traffic to designated websites, Muvic Smart Bar gets paid.

Any Dangers about Muvic Smart Bar?

Victims must have noticed the fact that Muvic Smart Bar will not be removed by conventional means. Some modifications have been added to the JS computing technique to help with the sticky property, which is the exact technique that tracks down online whereabouts.


Such random modification would give rise to conflicts against normal programs and dig loopholes on a targeted system. Error like "Faulting Application Path: muvic.exe" occurs to extract resource for automatic repair. Consequently, full play by critical parts of a machine will be hindered, making the machine much more susceptible to infections. If such case happens, the JS technique will be utilized to record anything typed online!

Get the Way to Uninstall Muvic Smart Bar

A – end the services related to Muvic Smart Bar.

 



Windows7/vista/XP
Win+R key combination > Run box > type “services.msc” > Enter key > double click on suspicious service > check “path to executable” > end/remove the ones with “path to executable” directing to Muvic Smart Bar.

Windows 8
Windows Explorer > Administrative Tools > Service icon > double click on suspicious service > check “path to executable” > end/remove the ones with “path to executable” directing to Muvic Smart Bar.


Mac OS X
Finder menu > Services >“Services Preferences” >“Services” on the left pane > check “path to executable” > end/remove the ones with “path to executable” directing to Muvic Smart Bar.




B– remove the extensions associated with Muvic Smart Bar and itself.



Tools menu >“Manage add-ons” >‘Toolbars and Extensions’> check the creation day of extensions there > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared >‘Search Providers’ > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared.


Tools menu >“Options” >‘Add-ons’ > check the creation day of extensions by clicking on “More info” > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared >‘plugins’ > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared.


Spanner icon > Tools > extensions > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared.

 
Menu > Extensions >“Manage Extensions” > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared.



Safari Menu > Preference > Glims/Extension > remove the ones created on or after Muvic Smart Bar appeared.




C - Show hidden files and folders to remove Temp file and the ones related to Muvic Smart Bar.





Windows 7/XP/Vista
‘Control Panel’ > 'user accounts and family safety' > 'Folder Options’ > View tab > tick ‘Show hidden files and folders' and non-tick 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)’ > ‘OK’.

Windows 8
Start screen > Windows Explorer > View tab > tick ‘File name extensions’ and ‘Hidden items’ options > OK button.

a.when done, remove the given items:

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Temp\
C:\WINDOWS\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet File

b. navigate to the following directories and remove the items generated on and after the date when Muvic Smart Bar appeared:

C:\Windows
%SystemDriver%\
C:\Program Files\
C:\windows\system32\
C:\users\user\appdata\local\
C:\Users\[your username]\Documents\
c:\users\[username]\appdata\locallow\

Mac OS X
Finder > Utilities folder > Terminal > copy and paste "defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES" > return key > copy and paste the "killall Finder" > return key.

a. remove temp files and folders:

Finder > Utilities folder > terminal:

1. type

   cd ~/Library/Logs
   sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/*

   and press Return button.


2. type

   rm -rf ~/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist
   cd ~/Library/Caches
   sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/*

   and press Return button.

b. access the following locations to remove the items generated on and after the date when Muvic Smart Bar appeared:

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ 
Home folder/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ 
Applications
Dock
Display

As what has been made clear in the foregoing paragraphs, web applications bundle one another for rapid propagation and further more clients. It is thus necessary to remove the dropped down items after uninstalling Muvic Smart Bar. The corresponding solution can be found in virus reservoir. 

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