What is Market Research Helper?
Market Research Helper is a potentially unwanted program that comes into your computer without yours consent. Market Research Helper hijacks your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome). It can modify the browser settings and change the homepage. Market Research Helper also can modify the search results and redirect user to ad sites. This program deals with the dissemination of advertisements. Market Research Helper displays coupons and banners with a ton of ads with signature “Ads by Market Research Helper”. Many of the proposals of this program doesn’t real, because of it, users risk spending money for nothing. Market Research Helper created to make money, it’s a useless program. In addition, this program can collect your personal data and transmit it to third parties. Also, it analyzes the browsing history to select ads that will interest you most of all. Market Research Helper can become a conduit for other malicious programs. This is not a virus, but this program can deliver a lot of trouble, so we recommended you to remove it right now.
How Market Research Helper 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 Market Research Helper.
How to remove Market Research Helper from your computer?
To uninstall Market Research Helper remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Market Research Helper in their database. You can try to use them for removing Market Research Helper.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Market Research Helper – files, folders, registry keys.
*Trial version of Norton provides detection of computer viruses for FREE. To remove malware, you have to purchase the full version of Norton.
Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Market Research Helper.
You can try both of these products to remove Market Research Helper
Or uninstall Market Research Helper manually.
Removing from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Market Research Helper.
- 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 Market Research Helper 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 Market Research Helper, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
After that remove Market Research Helper from your browser.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Market Research Helper.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Market Research Helper.
- 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 Market Research Helper.
- 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:
Key: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects
Value: MarketResearchHelper
Data: {e71ecfaa-158b-4027-9a01-1959834a82db}
Then remove following files:
MarketResearchHelperBHO.dll
updateMarketResearchHelper.exe
And following folders
%PROGRAMFILES%Market Research Helper
Written by Rami Douafi