Metal Maker is the name given to a certain potentially unwanted program; by this we mean a malicious program that is not recognized as such by antivirus software, because it’s not as dangerous as a virus per se. Plus, we say “potentially” unwanted because its installation is done in a discrete way.
Metal Maker‘s mission is to broadcast as much publicity as possible when we are browsing the internet, while at the same time records sensible data about our online actions and data about our computers. This ads can be seen in different forms, for example as pop-ups, banners, or gleen/blue highlighted words turned into links among the text of the visited websites. To identify Metal Maker‘s ads is pretty easy because they are usually tagged as Metal Maker Ads or Powered by Metal Maker.
As said before, if you’re currently infected with Metal Maker, there are no more secrets between you and its creator, because the software saves data about our every move, e.g. IP address, data about the used browser, OS version, visited websites, keywords from web searches, geographical setting, among others that can easily be used to identify us.
Metal Maker owns some sort of official website, which was probably made in the hope that people will then trust the software as legit. On the other hand, the website is used to make their GCUs public where some of their malicious actions can be seen in detail. Please be aware that by installing the software you have approved all conditions, whether you did it on purpose or not.
For your information please know that Metal Maker is detected as suspicious by 19 security software.
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How to remove Metal Maker ?
Remove Metal Maker with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool developed to eliminate unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no installation and can be ran in a instantaneous to examine your computer.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Metal Maker with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and removes malware like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, and more. All you have to do is launch Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free and run a scan. If you want even better protection, consider Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium and its instant real-time scanner that automatically prevents malware and websites from infecting your PC.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
- Once the program has loaded, select Scan now.
- When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove Metal Maker with HitmanPro
HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner designed to rescue computers that have become infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits and other malware, despite continuous protection from up-to-date antivirus software.
- You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
Download HitmanPro - Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
- Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
- HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for Metal Maker malicious files.
- When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove Metal Maker virus.
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