How to remove Maxiget Software Manager?

What do you know about Maxiget Software Manager

Maxiget Software Manager is classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) which can redirect users to Softonic.com. In other words,the Softonic.com is generated by the Maxiget Software Manager. Softonic.com is a tricky websites website which promotes various doggy software installers and the third-party ads.

Once installed, Maxiget Software Manager injects its files and folders to your disk and registry. It change the registry entries and start up items so that it can run at the background as soon as you log in your PC. When you open the browser, you will be redirected to Softonic.com automatically and receive a lot of pop-up ads.

Maxiget Software Manager is usually bundled with the third party like video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators, etc. You should take care when download software from the internet. In this situation, it is necessary to keep a powerful anti-malware on your computer to block infections. Here in the post, Spyhunter is recommended.


Two effective methods to remove Maxiget Software Manager permanently from your computer system

1. Remove Maxiget Software Manager manually.

2. Remove Maxiget Software Manager by using SpyHunter anti-malware.


Detail instruction:

Method one: Manually remove Maxiget Software Manager

Step 1.Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Maxiget Software Manager

Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 4. Delete malicious registry entries related to Search.safefinder.com.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )


Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 5- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”



Method two: Automatically get rid of Maxiget Software Manager with Spyhunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool

Step two: Install Spyhunter.
Open spyh File sph-setup-win7 spyhunter installed
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.

Note: Maxiget Software Manager is a dangerous PUP to your the system.You should remove it as soon as possible. Hope the instruction above give you a hand. If you cannot solve the problem with manual guide, you are highly recommended to download Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove Maxiget Software Manager and other threats from your system once for all.