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What is Music Player?

Music Player is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that supposedly allows users to play various audio formats. Initially, this app may seem legitimate and useful, however, research shows that Music Player often infiltrates systems without users’ permission.

Furthermore, this app continually gathers information regarding users' web browsing activity and delivers various intrusive online advertisements. For these reasons, Music Player is classed as adware.

Following infiltration, Music Player begins recording Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (to determine geographic location), website URLs visited, pages viewed, search queries, and other similar information, which is shared with third parties. Collected data might contain private details that third parties misuse to generate revenue.

Thus, the presence of an information-tracking application such as Music Player on your system can lead to serious privacy issues or even identity theft. Another downside is the display of intrusive online advertisements.

Music Player delivers pop-up, coupon, banner, and other similar ads using a 'virtual layer' - a tool that enables placement of third party graphical content on any site. None of these ads originate from users' visited website and conceal underlying content, thus significantly diminishing the web browsing experience.

In addition, some are likely to lead to malicious websites containing infectious content - clicking them risks further adware or malware infections. In conclusion, Music Player is a potential threat to your privacy and Internet browsing safety. Therefore, you should eliminate this adware from your computer immediately.

There are hundreds of adware-type applications that also falsely claim to provide a number of 'valuable features'. Neither Music Player, nor apps such as ArcadeLoot, TapBreaker, Light Manager, etc. actually provide the functionality promised. Research shows that adware is designed only to generate revenue for the developers. 

Claims to enable useful functions are simply attempts to trick users to install. These adware-type applications simply cause unwanted browser redirects, collect personal data, and deliver intrusive content-concealing advertisements.

How did Music Player install on my computer?

Music Player has an official download website, however, this app is also distributed using a deceptive software marketing method called 'bundling' (stealth installation of PUPs with regular programs). Therefore, many users install Music Player inadvertently, since they do not express enough caution when downloading and installing software.

Aware of this, developers intentionally conceal Music Player and other similar PUPs within the 'Custom/Advanced' settings of these procedures. Skipping this section often leads to inadvertent installation of bogus programs.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

There are two main steps you should take to prevent this situation. Firstly, closely analyze each step of the download and installation processes - PUPs are often distributed using the bundling method and, therefore, these procedures should never be rushed.

Secondly, decline all offers to download/install additional programs and cancel those already included. Bundled software is mostly dubious and, therefore, should never be installed.

Music Player adware installer set-up:

Deceptive free software installer distributing Music Player adware:

Screenshot of Music Player application:

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Quick menu:

• What is Music Player?
• STEP 1. Uninstall Music Player application using Control Panel.
• STEP 2. Remove Music Player adware from Internet Explorer.
• STEP 3. Remove Music Player ads from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove 'Ads by Music Player' from Mozilla Firefox.
• STEP 5. Remove Music Player ads from Safari.
• STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.

Music Player adware removal:

Windows 11 users:

Right-click on the Start icon, select Apps and Features. In the opened window search for the application you want to uninstall, after locating it, click on the three vertical dots and select Uninstall.

Windows 10 users:

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.

Windows 7 users:

Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.

macOS (OSX) users:

Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

In the uninstall programs window, look for "Music Player", select this entry and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".

After uninstalling the potentially unwanted program that causes Music Player ads, scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components or possible malware infections. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.

Remove Music Player adware from Internet browsers:

At time of research, Music Player did not install its browser plug-ins on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox, however, it was bundled with other adware. Therefore, you are advised to remove all potentially unwanted browser add-ons from your Internet browsers.

Video showing how to remove potentially unwanted browser add-ons:

Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". Look for any recently-installed suspicious browser extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the music player adware, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.

Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.

In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.

Click the Reset button.

Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons, select these entries and click the trash can icon.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the music player adware, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon  (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons". Click "Extensions", in the opened window, remove all recently-installed suspicious browser plug-ins.

Optional method:

Computer users who have problems with music player adware removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.

Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.

Select Troubleshooting Information.

In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.

Remove malicious extensions from Safari:

Make sure your Safari browser is active, click Safari menu, and select Preferences....

In the opened window click Extensions, locate any recently installed suspicious extension, select it and click Uninstall.

Optional method:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...

In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Remove malicious extensions from Microsoft Edge:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the upper-right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons and click "Remove" below their names.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the music player adware, reset your Microsoft Edge browser settings. Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge) and select Settings.

In the opened settings menu select Reset settings.

Select Restore settings to their default values. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Microsoft Edge settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

• If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.

Summary:

Commonly, adware or potentially unwanted applications infiltrate Internet browsers through free software downloads. Note that the safest source for downloading free software is via developers' websites only. To avoid installation of adware, be very attentive when downloading and installing free software. When installing previously-downloaded free programs, choose the custom or advanced installation options – this step will reveal any potentially unwanted applications listed for installation together with your chosen free program.

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