Ads by Lights Cinema. How to remove? (Uninstall guide)
What is Lights Cinema?
Do you consider apps that are used for adjusting screen lights for viewing online videos useful and worth installing? Most of the users treat such service as useless; however, apps such as Movie Wizard, Movie Master, Cinema Go Pro 2.3cV26.01, CinemaP-1.4c and many others are installed by hundreds of users daily. How? The vast majority of users install those apps without realizing that. Lights Cinema is a controversial application promising to enhance user’s experience but, instead of that, causing various inconveniences during browsing. In fact, Lights Cinema is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) or an adware that certainly should not be trusted. It may not only install cookies and gather information, such as your search terms and commonly visited websites, but it may also try to collect your clicks, data that you enter in certain websites (including social networks), your impressions, IP address, PC’s location, email address, and similar information that is sensitive enough to be used for violating people’s privacy. In addition to that, this suspicious adware may deliver various commercial offers. Usually, they appear in such forms as pop-up, pop-under, banner, full-page ads and in-text links. No doubts that ‘Ads by Lights Cinema’ are very annoying. However, one should known that they may be used for rerouting people to unknown and suspicious websites. Even worse, no one can guarantee that those commercials won’t redirect to phishing websites. That’s why we highly recommend you to remove Lights Cinema virus from the system. Its removal may also increase the performance of your web browser and heal security loopholes. Thus, install a reputable anti-spyware, such as Reimage or update it in order to run a full system.
How can Lights Cinema hijack my computer?
Security experts have recently detected Lights Cinema virus spreading on the Internet by means of various freewares and sharewares. They state that this adware is mainly added alongside installers that are promoted via third-party download websites, such as download.com, softonit.com, soft32.com, cnet.com and many others. Besides, even though it can work on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari web browsers, security experts have noticed the tendency of this adware initiate Lights Cinema redirects within Google Chrome mainly. If you have already installed it, you known what you have to do – to remove it right away. If you want to protect yourself from installing this browser plug-in in the future, you have to remember one simple thing – NEVER rush during installation of freewares. It’s very important to select Advanced or Custom installation option because it discloses all available check boxes. After that, it’s a must to read everything very carefully and unmark ticks claiming that you accept to install Lights Cinema add-on or another unfamiliar browser plug-in, toolbar, or extension.
How to remove Lights Cinema virus?
You don’t have to know a lot about computers in order to remove Lights Cinema virus. For the removal of potentially unwanted programs, you can always use a reliable anti-spyware that will do everything for you. However, if you are not willing to use additional software, then you can rely on manual removal guidelines that are given below:
You can remove virus damage automatically with a help of one of these programs: Reimage, Malwarebytes MalwarebytesCombo Cleaner, Plumbytes Anti-MalwareMalwarebytes Malwarebytes. We recommend these applications because they detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.
To remove Lights Cinema ads, follow these steps:
Remove Lights Cinema from Windows systems
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Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
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If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
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Uninstall Lights Cinema and related programs
Here, look for Lights Cinema or any other recently installed suspicious programs. -
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Get rid of Lights Cinema from Mac OS X system
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If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
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Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Lights Cinema or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Eliminate Lights Cinema from Internet Explorer (IE)
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Remove dangerous add-ons
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons. -
You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for Lights Cinema and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
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Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab. -
Here, remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Click Apply to save changes.
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Reset Internet Explorer
Click on the gear icon (menu) again and select Internet options. Go to Advanced tab. - Here, select Reset.
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When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete Lights Cinema removal.
Delete Lights Cinema ads from Microsoft Edge
Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
- Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
- Click Settings to open more options.
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Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
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Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
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Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
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Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can’t see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
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When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
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Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
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Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
Once these steps are finished, Lights Cinema should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
WindowsMac OS XInternet ExplorerMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxGoogle ChromeSafariUninstall Lights Cinema from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions. -
Here, select Lights Cinema and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
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Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information. -
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Lights Cinema removal.
Erase Lights Cinema from Google Chrome
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Delete malicious plugins
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions. -
Here, select Lights Cinema and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
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Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
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When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
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Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings. -
Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
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Click Reset to confirm this action and complete Lights Cinema removal.
Remove Lights Cinema from Safari
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences. -
Here, select Extensions and look for Lights Cinema or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
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Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari.... -
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Lights Cinema removal process.