Blitz Media Player. How to remove? (Uninstall guide)
What is Blitz Media Player?
Blitz Media Player is a well-known and widely used media player. This program is not malicious itself; however, security experts are concerned about the connection between its developers and questionable third parties. Before downloading this application on your computer, carefully read all information that is given about it and think twice if you really need it or not. Please see an extract from official site of this program:
„The Software will display to you targeted web sites and/or advertisements that are hosted by third parties (“Third Party Hosted Advertisements”). These Third Party Hosted Advertisements may place cookies on your hard drive and use the cookies to tailor delivery of content to you by profiling your use of a web site or advertisements that you select.“
As you may have understood from the extract, if you decide to download Blitz Media Player on your computer, you may accept third party advertisements on your web browsers as well. As we know, people who have downloaded this program have been bombarded by ads by techgenie.com and other third party advertisements. They usually appear regardless of the web browser that is used and show up all of a sudden in a form of pop-ups, banner ads, in text ads, etc. Please, be careful with such ads because they may redirect you to sponsored websites with questionable content. However, this is not the worst part. Blitz Media Player may install tracking software with it and may start tracking information related to your browsing habits. If it's the best scenario, this information will be used to adjust aforementioned ads and display more personalized ones so that you would be tempted to click on them. In the worst case scenario, this information may be sold to questionable third parties. Selling non-personal information, for instance email address, is quite popular among third parties. If that would happen, you would probably receive tons of spam and misleading alerts. Finally, you should keep in mind that such free programs as Blitz Media Player are also actively used for spreading various adwares and potentially unwanted programs around. Therefore, you may download the whole bundle of potentially unwanted programs after downloading this media player. If you do not want to experience that, it is better to remove this program from the system.
How can Blitz Media Player hijack my computer?
Since Blitz Media Player is a media player that is accessible for free, many users have downloaded and are using it voluntarily. Unfortunately, they are not aware of potentially unwanted activities that this program may initiate. In addition, this program may get inside your computer unnoticed. That happens after installation of free software. Some of the programs that are known to spread Blitz Media Player virus are “Youtube Downloader HD”, “Fast Free Converter”, “Video Media Player 1.1″ and “DVDX Player 3.2″. If you have recently installed any of them and noticed Blitz Media Player redirects, popup ads and similar inconveniences on each of your web browsers, it means that you have fell into downloading a bundled software. It is quite difficult to spot if the program that you really need is bundled or not. Reading end-user license agreement and privacy policy may help in this case because here you can find statements about third parties' sponsorship. If you find such information, you can be sure that the program you need is bundled and you have to be very careful during installation process. If you are not fond of reading those long sections, always opt for Advanced or Custom installation modes because they expand installation process and discloses all check boxes. This way you are able to read everything carefully and reject installation of third party programs. If you are happy with the functions that Blitz Media Player performs on your computer, you can keep it. However, keep in mind that it may also initiate lots of issues on it as well. We also recommend people to think twice before downloading it on the system.
How to remove Blitz Media Player virus?
Blitz Media Player cannot be labeled as a virus as it cannot pose harm to your PC or operating system itself. However, as we have explained above, it may causes various undesirable activities that may end up with serious computer problems. Therefore, we strongly recommend removing this program from the system. If you have decided to do so, you may choose between manual and automatic removal. For more details, follow the instructions 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 Blitz Media Player, follow these steps:
Delete Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player and related programs
Here, look for Blitz Media Player or any other recently installed suspicious programs. -
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Remove Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Erase Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player removal.
Uninstall Blitz Media Player 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, Blitz Media Player should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
WindowsMac OS XInternet ExplorerMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxGoogle ChromeSafariEliminate Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player removal.
Get rid of Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player removal.
Delete Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player 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 Blitz Media Player removal process.