Myplaycity Virus - How to remove

Myplaycity by MyPlayCity, Inc. is a browser hijacker that causes your browser to open the Start.myplaycity.com or Home.myplaycity.com sites. These websites are presented as the search providers, enhanced by hundreds of free online games available on their main search page.

The problem with Myplaycity is that it changes your browser settings and adds a toolbar without asking for your permission. It also causes a bunch of redirects, mainly to commercial websites.

About Myplaycity in short:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Myplaycity	Its browser extension is a newtab virus, the game setup files on Myplaycity are considered to be potentially unwanted, Myplaycity shows a lot of unavoidable pop-up ads.
Effects of a Myplaycity infection	Start.myplaycity.com, Home.myplaycity.com, or another site takes over your browser, your web search results appear different than usual.
How to remove Myplaycity Virus	Uninstall Myplaycity apps and browser extensions, remove all malware with antivirus tools (Spyhunter, Malwarebytes, others), restore browser home page and search engine settings.

Myplaycity adware

Its games are considered to be potentially unsafe

Myplaycity Virus allows you to download various games. As you know, free downloads are often accompanied by infections which can harm your computer’s system. While the program itself is not considered to be a purebred malware, it can definitely be the source of various malware infiltration into your machine. The setup files of free games that you can get off of Myplaycity are thus detected by some antivirus applications as Unsafe and PUP (potentially unwanted program) (Virustotal.com).

Myplaycity Virus also monitors your browsing activity. It can easily get access to your search data and later on use this information for advertising purposes.

It hijacks the home page

Myplaycity is a kind of a search tool, as well. Both websites, Start.myplaycity.com and Home.myplaycity.com, contain search bars. The search results they render clearly include sponsored websites. So, if you use these tools to perform your online searches, you will not get very accurate results, to say the least.

Not to mention tons of ads that will be popping up during your search sessions. Myplaycity Virus tries to get you to click on its ads in order to generate revenue. Every click on sponsored links brings money for the creators of Myplaycity.

As a hijacker, Myplaycity is similar to FunPopularGames, which is advertised on the Myplaycity.com site.

It shows a lot of ads

Indeed, Myplaycity.com shows constant ads:

• New tabs and pop-up ads that lead to certain freemium games.
•  Ads that use fake Download buttons, causing people to click on ads when they’re just trying to download a game.
• Automatic redirects to sponsored pages after a certain amount of time.

This makes the website difficult to use.

It can be hard to remove

After it’s installed, Myplaycity might be difficult to get rid of. Even if you change your browser settings, set a new homepage and default search engine, and remove it from your extensions list. Take a loot at the experience of one of the victims:

Downloading a single game from this website can result in a hijacked web browser. The exact new tab hijacker URL address is:

resource://myplaycitycom-at-gametab/myplaycity_gametab/data/newtab.html.

How to remove MyPlayCity from a computer?

If you want to keep your system safe, you are highly recommended to remove Myplaycity Virus. You will have to fix your browser settings that have been changed and eliminate any traces of this annoying program.

First of all, uninstall Myplaycity from your Control Panel or your Settings, Apps, Apps & features.

Depending on what browser you are using, follow the instructions below to remove the Myplaycity extension. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from being changed. To identify them, scan the system with antivirus tools.

In addition, use antivirus programs like Spyhunter or Malwarebytes to find and remove potentially unwanted software related to Myplaycity.

Automatic Malware removal tools

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a21bdb11d3ef0373b35f227175d0b9e9c5bfeecceb380d87cce28f87170f2948/detection

How to get rid of Myplaycity virus

How to remove Myplaycity hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Myplaycity Search 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 Myplaycity Virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Myplaycity hijacker 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 Myplaycity Virus from macOS

Delete Myplaycity hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Myplaycity Search 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.

TopHow To remove Myplaycity Virus from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Myplaycity Search, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser 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.

How To remove Myplaycity Virus from Firefox:Top

• 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 Myplaycity Virus 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.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Myplaycity Search, 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.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Myplaycity Virus from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Myplaycity Search, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• 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.

How to remove Myplaycity Virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Myplaycity Search and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Myplaycity Virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.