HQ Cinemax is an unwanted web browser extension, it adds itself without the knowledge nor permission of the user; we can find this malicious extension in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. We use the term malicious because it really doesn’t do you any good to have it installed on your computer. HQ Cinemax is developed to win money by means of your computer and yourself.
HQ Cinemax makes the best out of your lack of attention, because it gets installed at the same time as free software found in certain download platforms or in streaming websites that ask you to install some fake tools to watch videos. If you don’t pay attention to what you’re doing you might end up filled with additional tools like HQ Cinemax.
HQ Cinemax.uses your computer’s resources to show its ads (those ads will pay it for it). These ads will be inserted in every website you visit, specially e-commerce websites like Amazon. This continuous display of ads will ruin the visual look of every page visited and your browser will take longer to respond, in the mean time it will save every possible data of your browsing habits. All of these will be transformed by the adware in some way or another into money. HQ Cinemax’s creators had made their software capable of staying as long as possible in your computer… Making it really difficult to uninstall it.
For your information please know that HQ Cinemax is detected as suspicious by 22 security software.
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How to remove HQ Cinemax ?
Remove HQ Cinemax from your browser
- Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon
in top right corner. - Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
- Remove HQ Cinemax by clicking the trash can
icon.
- Restart Google Chrome.
- Open Firefox
- Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
- Remove HQ Cinemax by clicking the Remove button.
- Restart Mozilla Firefox
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the Gear icon
, then click on Manage Addons - Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
- Select and disable HQ Cinemax if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
- Restart Internet Explorer
Remove HQ Cinemax with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool made to remove unwelcome toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner requires no set up and can be ran in a instant to examine your system.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove HQ Cinemax with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for HQ Cinemax.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Reset your browser (if necessary)
If you still see traces of HQ Cinemax after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:
- Open Chrome.
- Click on the three stripes button in the right top corner.
- Select Settings.
- Scroll down to the end of the page, search for Show advanced settings.
- Scroll down once again to the end of the page and click Reset browser settings button.
- Click Reset once more.
- Open Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button.
- Click on Help then Troubleshooting information.
- Click on the Repair Firefox button and confirm.
- Firefox will automatically restart.
- Download ResetBrowser :
Download ResetBrowser - Download the tool, save it on your desktop and double-click on it.
- Read the disclaimer and press the Ok button.
- Click the Reset Chrome button and wait.
- Once the process is finished, click onOpen Chrome HQ Cinemax should now be deleted from Firefox.
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