What is Mighty Magoo?
According to developers, Mighty Magoo provides users with unlimited access to popular games for free. In fact this is not true. Mighty Magoo is a potentially unwanted program that comes into your computer without yours consent. Mighty Magoo hijacks your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome). It can modify the browser settings and change homepage. Mighty Magoo also can modify search results and redirect user to ad sites. This program deals with the dissemination of advertisements. Mighty Magoo displays coupons and banners with a ton of ads with signature “Ads by Mighty Magoo”. Many of the proposals of this program doesn’t real, because of it, users risk spending money for nothing. Mighty Magoo 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. Mighty Magoo can become a conduit for other malicious programs. Mighty Magoo is not a virus, but this program can deliver a lot of trouble, so we recommended you to remove it right now.
How Mighty Magoo gets on your PC?
Malicious software, such as Mighty Magoo, comes to your computer bundled with a free program like archivers, players, converters and other freeware. Some ad sites and sites that distribute free programs can insert adware and malware in their download managers. Potentially unwanted programs come without consent of the user, so users often don’t know that their computer is infected. Always follow the installation process, read the user agreement and select “Advanced” installation type to avoid such problems. Take your time, do not press the “Next” button until then, until you aren’t convinced that the program is safe. If your computer is already infected, then use our instructions to get rid of Mighty Magoo completely.
How to remove Mighty Magoo from your computer?
To uninstall Mighty Magoo remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Mighty Magoo in their database. You can try to use them for removing Mighty Magoo.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Mighty Magoo – 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 Mighty Magoo.
You can try both of these products to remove Mighty Magoo
Or uninstall Mighty Magoo manually.
Step 1: Remove Mighty Magoo from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Mighty Magoo.
- 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 Mighty Magoo 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 Mighty Magoo, 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 Mighty Magoo 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 Mighty Magoo from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Mighty Magoo from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Mighty Magoo.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Mighty Magoo.
- 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 Mighty Magoo.
- 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 Mighty Magoo:
Remove following regitry entries:
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Written by Rami Douafi