What is LyricsBot?
LyricsBot is a program that displays advertising content, such as banner ads, coupons, links to various sites and the like. LyricsBot installed in your browser in the form of an extension that can change your settings, homepage and user settings. LyricsBot appears immediately after you open your browser. LyricsBot displayed regardless of where you are and what page you opened. Basically LyricsBot can not be called a virus, but it is very arrogant and annoying program that prevents the user from using the browser. Of course, most importantly, what created this program – it’s about making money. Developers only think about replenishing their accounts. Be extremely vigilant. Also worth considering that LyricsBot installed without user consent that makes it even more malicious. Overall LyricsBot represent us as a word database of songs. It has a nice interface, but it is a temporary phenomenon. In addition to the words of the songs you can put a bunch of unnecessary things. LyricsBot also distributes its files all over your computer, making it virtually invulnerable. Remove it as soon as possible.
How LyricsBot gets on your PC?
Like most programs of this kind, LyricsBot penetrates a computer bundled with other free programs. How does this happen? Let’s say you need to download the archive to open a file that you sent mum. You type “archiver” in the search engine and click on the first link that you come across. Then you are just looking for “Download” button and download this program without thinking that this button is hidden threat. Many popular sites create separate boot loaders, in which hide unwanted software. So be very careful when downloading programs from the free sites. Do not settle for the unknown you install the software. Read reviews about the programs or advice from friends.
How to remove LyricsBot from your computer?
To uninstall LyricsBot remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as LyricsBot.
You can try both of these products to remove LyricsBot
Or uninstall LyricsBot manually.
Removing from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find LyricsBot.
- 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 LyricsBot 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 LyricsBot, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
After that remove LyricsBot from your browser.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find LyricsBot.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose LyricsBot.
- 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 LyricsBot.
- 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.
Remove following registry entries of LyricsBot:
HKLMSoftwareLyricsBot
Then remove following files of LyricsBot:
LyricsBot.dll
And these folders of LyricsBot:
C:Program FilesLyricsBot
Written by Aleksei Abalmasov