Infected with Fake Plugin Activity 3? - How to Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 With 2 Working Methods?

What needs to be known about Fake Plugin Activity 3?

Fake Plugin Activity 3 is an adware that has been very active recently. It can cause high severity problems for computers running Windows operating systems. It breaks into computers typically via your downloading from the Internet as a bundled component that can bypass your detection. It's created to have the ability of downloading Fake Browser extensions on the victims machines. More damage and further damage are caused by Fake Plugin Activity 3. For example, rogue browser extensions can pose as legitimate extensions but when installed can collect sensitive information from the infected computer. It makes messes through browsers. Browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and others can be affected without little program. After the infection of Fake Plugin Activity 3, troubles like endless pop-ups, failure pages, computer sluggishness are coming to you. Let's check some cases of being infected with Fake Plugin Activity 3.

Case 1

"I have a 64 bit, Windows 7 machine and recently appear to have been infected with Fake Plugin Activity 3. This malware started after trying to download a streaming program called Isoplex. Then I got Fake Plugin Activity 3 message pop-up and also some IP addresses are being blocked. Chrome and Firefox both work, yet randomly appear to enter a non-responsive state and the either crash or need to be manually shut down and restarted. Also, I think my Internet connections may be slower and video streaming bandwidth has gone down."

Case 2

" I need help. I'm having this Fake Plugin Activity 3 problem that seems quite common right now. Fake Plugin Activity 3 attempt to attack computer through the browser. It started after I tried to download the leaked episodes of game of thrones and I deleted the download file but it relocated itself to my computer ProgramData file. I found it but can't do anything about it. Please help. 

Troubles made by Fake Plugin Activity 3 may drive you insane.

* More troubles. Annoying and stubborn extensions, applications even other sort of malware including browser hijacker, trojan and ramsomware could break into the weak computer without little problem.

* Commercial pop-ups. When you are browsing the Internet, numerous ads jump out to bury your browsing content, acting really annoying.

* Privacy invasion. Your confidential information like passwords and financial details may be gathered by the tracking cookies added to the browser by Fake Plugin Activity 3.

* Slow computer.Fake Plugin Activity 34 program files may fill up the hard disk space with rubbish items and takes up large chunks of memory.

* Unwanted blocking. It's kind of possible that some of your wanted web sites will be blocked by unknown reason.

* No access to search results. About Blank pages or page failures may appear during your doing browsing.

How to Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 With 2 Working Methods?

Method 1: Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 Manually from Your Computer

1. remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 from the control panel

• Click Start and then choose Control Panel.
• Click Programs> Uninstall a program or Program and Features(for Windows 7,8, Vista)

• search for the unwanted or unknown programs; right click it and then choose Uninstall.

(Tip: If the program you choose to uninstall refuses your order, you need to go to end the running processes related to Fake Plugin Activity 3 in the task manager: click Ctrl+Alt+Del together to get the task manager; search for the suspect or unfamiliar process to end.)

 ( If you think it's complicated or you are not a computer savvy, please download and install the top removal tool to fix the Fake Plugin Activity 3 issue automatically.)


2. Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 from the browsers.

2.1 Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 add-ons from Internet Explorer

• Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “F10″ key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened
• Click on Programs tab then click on Manage Add-ons, now you’ll get a window which have listed all the installed add-ons.
• Now disable the Fake Plugin Activity 3 add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from this list.

2.2 Reset Internet Explorer

• Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
• For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon  . Then click on tools.
• Click on Advanced tab then click on RESET button.
• Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that.
• Now your Internet Explorer has been Restored to default settings.
• Now you will appear a popup stated “complete all the tasks”. After completion click on close button.

2.3 Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

• Start Google Chrome, click on options icon  (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. 
• You will get a configuration page which have listed all the installed extensions, remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 extension. Also remove all the unknown / unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon  (as shown on screenshot)

2.4: Reset Google Chrome – Restore to default setting.

• Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon  and then click on settings 
• Scroll down and click on “Show advanced settings…”option, after click on that you’ll appear some more options in bottom of the page. Now scroll down more and click on “Reset Browser setting” option.
• Now, Close all Google Chrome browser’s window and reopen it again.

2.5 Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 add-ons from Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox and then go the Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar) click on Add-ons, you’ll get a page click on extensions from the left side pane. now look on right side pane you’ll get all the installed add-ons listed on there. Disable or Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from there. 

2.6 Reset Mozilla Firefox

• Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar)
• Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information
• You will get a page “Troubleshooting information” page, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
• Click on Reset Firefox option and then follow their instructions to reset firefox.
• Mozilla Firefox should be Restored.

3. To Remove Fake Plugin Activity 3 from Startup

• Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a msconfig window.

• In the msconfig window click on Startup tab, here you’ll get all the startup entries, so look on the list and then do Un-check the entries which is contains Fake Plugin Activity 3. Also Un-check all the others entries which you found unwanted. then click on OK to apply all the changes

Method 2: Automatic Virus Removal Tool helps to remove Fake Plugin Activity 3.

1. Download the Automatic Virus Removal Tool Now.

(Tip: get into Safe Mode with Networking to download it if your PC performs badly: Restart your computer >> As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly >> Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option and then press ENTER >> If you don’t get the Safe Mode with Networking option, please restart the computer again and keep tapping "F8" key immediately.)

2.  Click Ctrl+J together to get the all the download files if you are using Google. Search for SpyHunter-Installer.exe.  In order to install the removal tool, you need to give your permission by clicking Run.

Please follow the pop-up box prompts to accomplish the SpyHunter Installation.

Choose Continue to click to get the Install option

Choose "I accept the EULA and Privacy Policy" and then click INSTALL.

You need to be patient when you are arriving 'downloading file'. It will take a while.

Start New Scan and delete all the detected files.

Friendly Tip: it takes more than 30 minutes to accomplish the scanning. You can go away to have a break for yourself.

Here comes the moment. Clicking ' Fix Threats', you are on the right track to remove Fake Plugin Activity 3.

What you should know:

As you can see, Fake Plugin Activity 3 is very aggressive and stubborn. If you don't occupy enough expertise, you can't remove it out of PC thoroughly. After your manual removal, you are strongly recommended to download and install the top antivirus program SpyHunter to remove the reminded files associated with Fake Plugin Activity 3.

( Kris )