Remove Lights Cinema

Ads by Light Cinema is an unwanted program that shows non-stop ads whenever you’re browsing the web. This ads contain offers that might seem legit. There are several versions of this adware, including Ads by Light Cinema 1.2, Ads by Light Cinema 1.3 and Ads by Light Cinema 1.4

Ads by Light Cinema presents itself as a tool that will allow you to have the best discounts and coupons for the websites you visit on a daily basis. Even though this might sound interesting, Ads by Light Cinema can rapidly become intrusive with their tons of ads giving you no control over them.

Ads by Light Cinema is actually developed with the only goal in mind of increasing its creator’s income. Besides showing customized links and ads, it will also collect every useful data about you to sell them afterwards and will increase traffic in the advertised websites.

As soon as it’s installed in your computer, Ads by Light Cinema will start its promotion of ads either in the form of banners, pop-up or double underlined links directly in your website’s content.

It’s very common to find this kind of software promoting other downloads, such as tool-bars, optimization software and others, always with the same goal in mind of increasing their income. Follow along the guide presented below to effectively remove this adware.

You should know that Ads by Lights Cinema is detected as suspicious by 11 security software.
File information
File name:
ddws.exe

Common path:
C:\Users\Jean\AppData\Roaming\ddws.exe

Signed by:
Lights Cinema 1.4

Analysis date:
17 March 2015

Scanner detections:
11 / 54

Scan engine
Detection
Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A
ESET-NOD32
a variant of Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.CB potentially unwanted
BitDefender
Gen:Application.Heur.3v0@m8LYqJoO
Panda
Trj/Genetic.gen
Comodo
Application.Win32.Plush.GRI
MicroWorld-eScan
Gen:Application.Heur.3v0@m8LYqJoO
Ad-Aware
Gen:Application.Heur.3v0@m8LYqJoO
F-Secure
Gen:Application.Heur.3v0@m8LYqJoO
McAfee-GW-Edition
BehavesLike.Win32.AdwareCross.th
GData
Gen:Application.Heur.3v0@m8LYqJoO
AhnLab-V3
PUP/Win32.CrossRider

Show the other 7 anti-virus detections


How to remove Lights Cinema ?

This page is a comprehensive guide, which will remove Lights Cinema from your computer. Please perform all the steps in the correct order.

Remove Lights Cinema from your browser

  • Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon Menu Chrome in top right corner.
  • Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
  • Remove Lights Cinema by clicking the trash can Remove extensions from Google Chrome icon.
  • Restart Chrome.
  • Open Firefox
  • Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
  • Remove Lights Cinema by clicking the Remove button.
  • Restart Firefox
  • Open Internet Explorer
  • Click on the Gear icon Gear Button, then click on Manage Addons
  • Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
  • Select and disable Lights Cinema if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
  • Restart Internet Explorer

Remove Lights Cinema with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a tool that searches for and removes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your system. If you use AdwCleaner you can simply remove many of these types of applications for a much better user experience on your pc and while browsing the web.

  • Download AdwCleaner (Official link and direct-download) :
    Download AdwCleaner
  • Select AdwCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
  • If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
  • Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
  • If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
  • Reboot your computer.

Remove Lights Cinema with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Lights Cinema.

Remove Lights Cinema with malwarebytes anti-malware

  • Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
    Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
  • Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • 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.
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Lights Cinema.
  • When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
  • Reboot your computer if prompted.

Reset your browser (if necessary)

If you still see traces of Lights Cinema after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:

Your bookmarks and saved passwords are not deleted or modified.
  • Open Chrome.
  • Click on the Chrome menu button Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
  • 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.
Your bookmarks and saved passwords are not deleted or modified.
  • Open Firefox
  • At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button.
  • Click on Help then Troubleshooting information.
  • Click the Repair Firefox button in the upper-right corner of the page.
  • Mozilla Firefox will automatically restart.
Your bookmarks and saved passwords are not deleted or modified.

How to remove Lights Cinema with ResetBrowser

  • 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 Lights Cinema should now be deleted from Firefox.
Your computer should now be free of Lights Cinema. If you are still experiencing problems while trying to remove Lights Cinema from your computer, please start a new thread in our support page. Someone will give you free assistance very fast !
Click here to go to our support page.

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