Media Player Update popup - How to remove

Media Player Update popup is a fake message that appears on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browsers if your computer was infected with some potentially unwanted program. Although the message tries to persuade you to update your Media Player to version 12.7, the truth is it is not related to this program at all. It is just a trick used to distribute various unknown software. Here is how Media Player Update popup looks like:

Media Player Update
This content requires Media Player 12.7. would you like to install it now?
Update Version 12.7

Do not click on this message under any circumstances. Once you do so, you will allow installation of an adware, browser plugin, browser extension or other application that is related to investigating your browsing habits and using this information for marketing purposes. You should also know that if the program is able to get access to your browsing history, it can easily violate your privacy as well.

As Media Player Update popup is caused by another adware, it is worth learning something about how to avoid such programs. The easiest way to spread adware and other unwanted applications is by bundling them to other freeware. Users should pay more attention when downloading any free programs from the Internet. Always go for Custom installation and if you see any preselected options to download additional tools that are unknown to you, make sure you refuse them.

Remove Media Player Update popup and any adware that can be responsible for its appearance. Below you can learn how to do it.

Using control panel to remove main Media Player Update popup related adware components and installers

1. Go to control panel. on Windows XP/Vista/7 Start -> Control Panel . Then Add/Remove Programs. On Windows 8. Enter Control Panel in search box. In both cases you might have confirm that you are administrator on this PC.
2. Remove anything related to Media Player Update. By default, I recommend removing Yontoo, WebCake, anything “savings” or “coupon” related. Scanning with Anti-Malware programs like Spyhunter or Stopzilla might give good idea what programs you should remove from there as well.
3. Close Control Panel.

Removing Media Player Update popup related adware from Internet Explorer

1. Press gear icon->Manage Add-ons.
2. Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove ones you do not know AND made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
3. Close The options.

Removing Media Player Update popup related adware from Firefox

1. Enter about:addonsin URL field.
2. Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe it is a good bet that you do not need it.
3. Optionally, Reset Firefox :
4. Go to Firefox ->Help (Help in menu for OSX users). Troubleshooting Information. Then Reset Firefox.

Removing Media Player Update popup related adware from Chrome

1. Enter chrome://extensions in url field.
2. Go through extensions list and remove programs you do not need. If you are not sure about any, you can disable them temporally.
3. Restart chrome.
4. Optionally, you can go tochrome://settings , press Advanced settings, scroll to the bottom of the list and press Reset browser settings.

NOTE:

If you found an extension that can’t be removed from the browser, it has either to be removed from control panel or with antimalware programs ( like Spyhunter, malwarebytes) or program uninstallers  ( like RevoUninstaller ).

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