Plans to Remove Update Your Flash Player Pop-up

Update Your Flash Player pop-up is unwanted.

One of the Update Your Flash Player scenes from a victim: about 2 days ago back he was checking something on Google Chrome when suddenly he was redirected to download a flash player Pro which he immediately knew was a malware. He closed Chrome and tried to reopen it and again a pop-up titled with Update Your Flash Player hijacked its browser. Now, he is unable to access only Google Chrome, Youtube and Yahoo. Other websites seem to function perfectly. Additionally, these websites sometimes just do not load or show an Error 404 message.

What is Update Your Flash Player?

Update Your Flash Player is a pop-up that can displayed on most of the browsers with reputations, like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. Being infected with it triggers the changes of your browser settings like search engine and homepage as well as extensions. It can pop up autonomously on your browsers recommending you to update your Flash Player. Attention: this is scam that can lead you to download dozens of junk programs instead. Also, hijacked by Update Your Flash will make your browser encounter problems, like accessing issue, loading pages and Error 404 messages.

Update Your Flash Player may bring up others troubles:

• Clumsy computer and delay performance.
• Additional threats like adware, browser hijacker, trojan and ransomware. 
• Personal confidential information explosion.
• Endless pop-ups and redirects. 
• Failure pages and frozen browser. 







Plans to Remove Update Your Flash Player




Plan 1: Remove Update Your Flash Player Manually from Your Computer


Before the removal: you need to go to end the running processes related to Update Your Flash Player in the task manager: click Ctrl+Alt+Del together to get the task manager; search for the suspicious or unfamiliar processes to end. ( in case you will encounter the claiming that Update Your Flash Player is running and you can't uninstall it.)







( considerate tip: manual removal requires expertise and consumes a lot of time. If you mean to make the Update Your Flash Player removal simple and easy, you may consider downloading and installing the official version SpyHunter to get rid of Update Your Flash Player. Just want to make sure you know you have a perfect choice.)




1. remove Update Your Flash Player 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.
2. Remove Update Your Flash Player from the browsers.

2.1 Remove Update Your Flash Player 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 Update Your Flash Player 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.




Remove Update Your Flash Player from Internet Explorer homepage


• Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active the menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got Update Your Flash Player, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.




2.3 Remove Update Your Flash Player 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 Update Your Flash Player 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.



Remove Update Your Flash Player from Google Chrome homepage


• Start Google Chrome, click on options icon  (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
• Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on its Set Pages. Another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.




2.5 Remove Update Your Flash Player 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 Update Your Flash Player 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.


Remove Update Your Flash Player from Mozilla Hompeage
• Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then press “F10″ key once to active the menu bar) then go to Options, after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under start-up you will see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see Update Your Flash Player, please replace it with www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
• Restart Firefox Browser




3. To Remove Update Your Flash Player 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 Update Your Flash Player. Also Un-check all the others entries which you found unwanted. then click on OK to apply all the changes






Plan 2: in case you don't know how to remove Update Your Flash Player manually, you are offered an automatic one.






1. Download the professional version Spyhunter by clicking the botton .





• There are 2 selections offered: click Save or Run to install the program. We recommend you to save it on the desktop if you choose Save for the reason that you can immediately start the free scan by using the desktop icon.
• After downloading, double click the downloaded file and follow the prompts to install the removal tool.


2. Installing the professional tool to remove Update Your Flash Player completely, start with clicking Run to give your permission.





Click Continue to get the Install option





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





A good gain consumes time. Please wait for the files downloading... 





Take the chance to remove Update Your Flash Player. Click Start New Scan/ Scan Computer at once!





Standby and let it scan your PC. You can take a break for yourself since it will take a while.





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( Kris )