Ads by Lights Cinema - How to remove

Lights Cinema is an adware program that performs suspicious operations and tries to promote various commercial websites. The program infiltrates into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and some other browsers.

Once there, it collects information about users’ browsing habits and later generates ads according to this data. So due to the presence of this infection on one of your web browsers, you will be experiencing multiple unwanted symptoms:

• excessive web advertisements;
• redirects to other websites;
• data gathering;
• slower work of the computer;
• infiltration of other malware.

If you have noticed Ads by Lights Cinema on your computer, it is highly recommended to remove this adware from your system as soon as possible. In case you have no idea how to do that, please stick with us and we will provide you with the information needed to efficiently remove Light Cinema and increase the overall security of your computer.

Why Ads by Lights Cinema is malicious

First of all, we should mention that this infection operates as a browser add-on and gets installed on computers secretly. I.e. it just shows up out of nowhere and starts bothering users with various advertisements.

Lights Cinema browser extension generates numerous ads that can be recognized and separated from other ads quite easily. All popups have a text at the bottom, saying “Powered by Lights Cinema”, “Powered by Lights Cinema 1.3 beta” “Brought to you by Lights Cinema 1.2 beta”, “You’ve received a premium offer from Lights Cinema”, “Ads by Lights Cinema”, “Ads by Lights Cinema 1.3 beta” and so on. This technique is used by various adware infection – take a look at Ads by Name malware family, where all advertisements are labeled with “ads by something”.

Most of the ads include commercial offers or suggest getting discounts to shop at various online stores. Unfortunately, those discounts and won’t save your money. This trick is supposed to attract more clicks. Each click brings money for the creators of Lights Cinema adware. There are two main problems with these ads.

First, they are very annoying and constant redirections really bother your browsing experience. Second, Ads by Lights Cinema can redirect you to websites that are not safe to visit. This means you can get your system infected with spyware and other malicious programs.

It is strongly recommended to stay away from Ads by Lights Cinema and get rid of them as soon as possible. We have provided a tutorial below this article that explains step-by-step how to get rid of this annoying browser extension. In case you are not able to remove it manually, simply download a reliable anti-malware program and run a full system scan with it. It will get rid of Lights Cinema automatically.

How Lights Cinema infects computers

Lights Cinema browser extension is installed to computers bundled to other applications that do not warn about this additional download. It can be added to your browser bundled to free media players, recorders, PDF creators, etc.

To avoid that, you have to be more careful with the installation steps of your new downloads. A lot of users go through the installation steps “blindly” and they do not pay much attention to what they agree on. They just keep hitting the ‘Next’ or ‘Accept’ buttons and agree with everything without even reading. This can lead to adding various potentially unwanted programs.

Always opt for a Custom or Advanced installation and check every step very carefully. This way you will be able to deselect certain optional downloads that are preselected to be added by default. In case your system has already been affected, remove Ads by Lights Cinema as soon as possible. Follow the guide below for a quick and easy solution.

Scheduled tasks prevent removal of Lights Cinema

Cybercriminals behind this malicious application did their best in order to prevent users from removing this infection. That’s why they have implemented a scheduled task function in their code.

This is the reason why it’s not enough to simply remove a malicious extension from the web browser and expect that it won’t come back. Various infections that operate as browser add-ons (such as Ads by Provider or Oleobet.com) also create backup plans that allow restoring the infection later on.

In this particular case, Lights Cinema schedules a task that automatically runs every 6 hours and checks if you have removed the extension from a web browser or not. If you did, this task will initiate the reinstallment and the virus will be up and running once again.

That’s why we recommend scanning your computer with reliable anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter – it will automatically detect and remove all malicious files of Lights Cinema and also kill all tasks that should be killed.

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Manual removal of Ads by Lights Cinema

How to remove Lights Cinema 1.3 beta using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Lights Cinema 1.2 beta install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Ads by Lights Cinema . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Lights Cinema 1.3 beta easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Ads by Lights Cinema from macOS

Delete Lights Cinema 1.3 beta from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Lights Cinema 1.2 beta app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Lights Cinema 1.2 beta and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ads by Lights Cinema, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Ads by Lights Cinema from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Lights Cinema 1.3 beta. Click on the trash bin icon next to Lights Cinema 1.2 beta or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ads by Lights Cinema, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Ads by Lights Cinema from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Lights Cinema 1.3 beta related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Lights Cinema 1.2 beta, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Ads by Lights Cinema from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Lights Cinema 1.2 beta. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Ads by Lights Cinema or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Ads by Lights Cinema from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Lights Cinema 1.3 beta. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Lights Cinema 1.2 beta, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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