What is Mass Sea?
Mass Sea – a browser extension that hijacks browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer. Mass Sea is an advertising program. Technically, this program is not a virus, but it is a potentially unwanted program. After penetration, Mass Sea begins to display banners and coupons, which may refer to a popular partner sites, such as Amazon, AliExpress, Walmart and so on. According to the developers, Mass Sea helps the user to find the best offers. In fact, it is a fraud, because most of the proposals are not real. Also, Mass Sea can change your browser settings and dramatically reduce your computer’s performance. Your personal information may be disclosed to third parties. Mass Sea not do anything useful, so you should remove it immediately.
How Mass Sea gets on your PC?
Penetration of such programs depends largely on the care of users. Most of malware comes bundled with other programs that the user downloads from the free sites. Few are closely watching the installation process, and sometimes do not know that their computer is at risk. Always read the user’s agreement and don’t press “Next” button once. First, make sure that the program is safe. Select advanced installation type. Remember that there are many similar programs in the Internet. Read reviews about the programs, and if your computer is already infected by Mass Sea, then use the instructions below.
How to remove Mass Sea from your computer?
To uninstall Mass Sea remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Mass Sea in their database. You can try to use them for removing Mass Sea.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Mass Sea – files, folders, registry keys.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Mass Sea.
You can try both of these products to remove Mass Sea
Or uninstall Mass Sea manually.
Step 1: Remove Mass Sea from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Mass Sea.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Mass Sea and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Mass Sea, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate Mass Sea and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- Click on Uninstall to confirm.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
After that remove Mass Sea from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Mass Sea from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Mass Sea.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Mass Sea.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable Mass Sea.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Mass Sea:
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Written by Rami Douafi