VideoStripe is a video on demand service, offering the chance to see many movies online in exchange for a pretty expensive monthly rate (40€ per month). Besides its price being ridiculous, especially when compared to other popular, trustworthy services such as Netflix whose rate is only 8€ per month, VideoStripe also uses some commercial techniques that can easily annoy the most patient of users. These techniques include being offered and promoted by adware. It’s not uncommon then to see windows or tabs like the one shown below where VideoStripe is being offered, asking you to get your own subscription:
This kind of promotion is probably why some antivirus software consider videostripe.com as a malicious website.
In conclusion, if you see any windows or tabs suggesting you to get a VideoStripe’s subscription, you most certainly have an adware in your computer. It’s probably WebBrowserJfile the one infecting your computer, it’s been know to be one of the most effective ones in promoting this subscription. Make sure to avoid clicking on them at all costs and close them right away. Afterwards you can follow along the guide presented below to remove it along with every other unwanted program installed in your computer.
You should know that the page VideoStrip is considered as suspicious by 2 anti-viruses.
How to remove VideoStripe ?
Remove VideoStripe with AdwCleaner
The AdwCleaner tool will scan your computer and internet browser for VideoStripe, browser plugins and registry keys, that may have been installed on your system without your knowledge.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download AdwCleaner - Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the file AdwCleaner.exe.
- If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
- When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the Scan button.
- To remove malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the Clean button.
- Please click on the OK button to allow AdwCleaner reboot your computer.
Remove VideoStripe with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
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.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for VideoStripe.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- 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 VideoStripe 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 VideoStripe 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 VideoStripe virus.
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