MyPlayCity — How to Remove Guide (myplaycity.com)

MyPlayCity search hijacker is an illustration of a basic unwanted program; such applications are distributed enormously nowadays. In this post, you will see the comprehensive directions of MyPlayCity hijacker removal in different methods: using anti-malware tools and hand-operated elimination process.

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About MyPlayCity hijacker origins

MyPlayCity search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is spread as a plugin for your web browser. It is usually promoted as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that helps to search some particular details, as an example, about sport events, make your browser much more safe, allow downloading of any type of video, and so on.

Nevertheless, the MyPlayCity plugin is quite ineffective because all such functions are currently built-in to your browser and/or Windows. Such advertising slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, such as pensioners or schoolchildren. But frequently even experienced users are getting caught on such a lure. In certain situations, this hijacker is distributed along with free programs.

Here is a details for the MyPlayCity hijacker

How harmful is MyPlayCity hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, MyPlayCity hijacker is additionally fairly hazardous for web browser use. It modifies your search engine to its specific – MyPlayCity.com, and also transforms your background, adding its watermark on your background image (or, occasionally, changing it to default with the specified symbol).

In addition to viewable transformations done by MyPlayCity hijacker, you may notice that some of your search queries are redirecting to the unknown sites, full of links and promotions – so-called doorway sites. Such websites can include the links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting rises if you try to open Google search page forcibly.

But all these actions are far more frustrating than really destructive. The biggest hazard, particularly for people who have a considerable amount of confidential information in their web browsers, is installed in information gathering functionalities. Cookie files, chats, often-visited sites and various other activities are easily gathered by MyPlayCity hijacker.

How to remove MyPlayCity search hijacker?

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
• Open GridinSoft Anti-Malware and perform a “Standard scan“.
• “Move to quarantine” all items.
• Open “Tools” tab – Press “Reset Browser Settings“.
• Select proper browser and options – Click “Reset”.
• Restart your computer.

Browser hijackers are generally fairly very easy to remove. In most cases, they have an independent app that can be found in the list of installed apps. Due to the particular marketing tactic of MyPlayCity hijacker, it can be simply tracked and deleted by hand. However, if you got MyPlayCity in the package with a free application( s), your computer may be contaminated with much more major malware – trojans, spyware or perhaps ransomware. That’s why I ‘d advise you to make use of anti-malware tools to deal with the MyPlayCity PUA and all various other malware.

You can utilize Microsoft Defender² – it is capable of recognizing and clearing away different malware, including mentioned hijacker. But significant malware, that might be present on your personal computer in the discussed instance, can disable the Windows antimalware tool by editing the Group Policies. To stay clear of such situations, it is better to make use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

To detect and remove all unwanted programs on your computer with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to utilize Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.

You can see the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.

To set the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of the detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.

Reverting browser settings to original ones

To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by any malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.

After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to the original.

Deleteing MyPlayCity hijacker manually

Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular browsers.

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :



2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :



2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :


After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :



2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :



3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :
   

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option :



2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.

1. More information about PUAs
2. Detailed review of Microsoft Defender