What is Video Box?
Video Box is a browser extension that hijacks popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. After penetration, it starts to display a huge number of advertising (banners, coupons, links to ad sites, and so on). These ads can appear at any time during the browsing. The main goal of the developers (SuperWeb LLC.) – to get you to make unnecessary purchases. Video Box can significantly reduce the performance of your browser, increase traffic and transfer your personal information and browsing history to third parties. It changes browser settings, such as homepage and search engine. This adware is very annoying and brings a lot of troubles. If you find a program Video Box on your PC, then you urgently need to remove it from your computer.
How Video Box gets on your PC?
Programs, that are among the potentially unwanted programs come bundled with free software. Typically, such programs penetrate the PC without the user’s consent. Because of this, many users do not realize that a computer is infected with malware and the PC is at great risk. However, it is worth noting that the main reason for such penetrations – carelessness user. People do not read the terms and conditions during the installation of free software. It was there that may contain consent to install PUP. Also, during the installation, ensure that the installer did not offer you a third-party software. To prevent such problems, you should always follow the installation process, read the terms and conditions, do not agree to install additional software, and select Advanced type of installation. If Video Box has already penetrated into your computer, you can use the instructions below.
How to remove Video Box from your computer?
To uninstall Video Box remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Video Box in their database. You can try to use them for removing Video Box.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to Video Box – files, folders, registry keys.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as Video Box.
You can try both of these products to remove Video Box
Or uninstall Video Box manually.
Step 1: Remove Video Box from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Video Box.
- 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 Video Box 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 Video Box, 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 Video Box 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 Video Box from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Video Box from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Video Box.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Video Box.
- 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 Video Box.
- 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 Video Box:
Remove following registry entries:
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Written by Rami Douafi