What is Theater-Max?

Theater-Max – a malicious program that comes on the computer as a browser extension and hijacks Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Theater-Max is advertising product and applies to potentially unwanted programs. This program comes on a PC without the user’s consent and activates immediately after opening the browser. Theater-Max displays a myriad of banners and coupons, links to ad sites, pop-ups and other things. Theater-Max shows products popular online stores and promises to help the user to save. In fact, these proposals are not genuine. Theater-Max trying to get you to spend money for nothing. Also, Theater-Max can make changes to your browser settings, change the homepage, change the search and so on. If you find Theater-Max on your computer, we recommend that you remove this program right now. Don’t waste your time.

Theater-Max Ads

How Theater-Max gets on your PC?

Similar programs belong to potentially unwanted programs. These programs come on a computer without the user’s consent, so you may have overlooked the penetration of this program. PUP is installed on PC bundled with freeware program such as archivers, download managers, players and so on. The user must be considerate during the installation process to prevent the penetration of unwanted programs. To do this, you need to read the user agreement. Do not agree to install unknown or suspicious programs. Not need to trust programs from unknown publishers. Always follow the installation process and do not rush to click “Next”. If your computer is already infected, you can use our instructions listed below to get rid of Theater-Max.

How to remove Theater-Max from your computer?

To uninstall Theater-Max remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Theater-Max in their database. You can try to use them for removing Theater-Max.

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Alternative Solution:

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You can try both of these products to remove Theater-Max

Or uninstall Theater-Max manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Theater-Max.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Theater-Max and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Theater-Max, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove Theater-Max from your browser.

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Theater-Max.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Theater-Max.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Theater-Max.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:


no information

Then remove following files:


Theater-Max.dll

And following folders


%PROGRAMFILES%Theater-Max

Written by Rami Douafi

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