What is Movie Wizard
Movie Wizard – is a delusive browser extension, which is made by Small Island Solutions. It can be installed on many internet browsers, like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. This application was created to helps user with watching videos, so you may find this add-on useful. Nevertheless, Movie Wizard is considered as Potentially Unwanted Software, because of displaying big amount of advertisements. Many of those commercials redirect user to potentially dangerous websites. It is highly recommended to remove Movie Wizard from computer.
How is Movie Wizard installed on my PC?
There are many methods to infect personal computer. But mostly exploitable method is “bundling”. What does it mean? Poor software is bound to freeware or shareware. So, when user installs free software, he installs bundled malware too. To prevent malware installation via bundling follow next instructions: first of all, don’t download freeware from unknown or suspicious sources, download only licensed products from official websites. Secondly, be careful while installing freeware. Be attentive during installation process.
How to remove Movie Wizard?
To remove Movie Wizard use special removal utilities. Or you can remove it manually, using our manual removal guide.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Movie Wizard.
Manual Movie Wizard Removal Guide
Windows 7:
- Click the Start;
- Click Control Panel;
- Click Uninstall a program (if computer’s settings Viewed By: Category);
Click Programs and Features (if computer’s settings Viewed By: Icons); - Find programs possibly related to Movie Wizard;
- Click Uninstall;
- Follow the instructions on the screen or just wait.
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8:
- Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search (If you’re using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Search.);
- Enter control panel in the search box, and then tap or click Control Panel;
- Under View by:, select Large Icons, and then tap or click Programs and features;
- Find programs possibly related to Movie Wizard;
- Tap or click the program, and then tap or click Uninstall;
- Follow the instructions on the screen or just wait.
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows XP:
- Click Start;
- Click Control Panel;
- Double-click Add or Remove Programs;
- Find programs possibly related to Movie Wizard and Click it;
- Click to Remove;
- Follow the instructions on the screen or just wait.
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Google Chrome:
You can skip steps 2-4 point by typing “chrome://extensions/” in address bar.
- Open Google Chrome;
- Click on Options Icon or press Alt+E, Alt+F;
- Click Settings;
- Click Extensions;
- Find Movie Wizard;
- Click on bin icon to remove extension.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
You can skip steps 2-3 by typing “about:addons” in address bar or pressing Shift+Ctrl+A.
- Open Mozilla Firefox;
- Press Alt+T or Click Tools on the top of the browser;
- Click Add-ons;
- Click Extensions;
- Find Movie Wizard;
- Click Disable or Remove.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open Internet Explorer;
- Press Alt+T, or Click on Gear Icon in the right-top corner;
- Click Manage Add-ons;
- Select Toolbars and Extensions;
- Find Movie Wizard and Click Disable ;
- Click More information button;
- Click Remove
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Conclusion
Movie Wizard – is typical adware, that acts like a helpful program. It is a nasty and harmful software, so you should remove Movie Wizard.
can someone tell me how to remove movie wizard when it shows up in my list of programs on my contro panel but when i click on it and on uninstall it does nothing
Use free Malwarebytes AntimalWare or Spyhunter – they should detect it. Movie Wizard installation folder is located here: C:\ProgramData\Movie Wizard but it won’t allow you to remove it. So you have 2 options – uninstall it in Safe Mode or use one of the programs mentioned above.