How to Remove Motitags Toolbar Completely from Your Computer

You suddenly find Motitags Toolbar on your browser. Don’t know how and when it comes, and you have no ideas to remove it. No worries, here the step-by-step guide scan help you safely and quickly remove Motitags.

Description of Motitags Toolbar

Motitags Toolbar can attach on all the popular web browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and so forth. It can come into your along with some free software, files and drivers. You may also get infect by opening spam emails, sharing corrupt, or clicking to unsafe web sites, and so on. It is really trick that you should always take care when do online activities.

Once Motitags Toolbar is installed, it will change the browser setting and default homepage and search engines. When you open your browser, it will redirect you to home.tb.ask.com and make it as the homepage without your permission. You cannot remove it even you change the browser setting. Thus you have to use its search engine but you cannot get the right information. It will redirect you to some malicious websites which are full of pop-up ads and sponsor links. The cyber criminals can earn the unethical revenue by generating the traffic of the ads.

It is easy to get other infections downloaded when you click those links, such as Trojan horse, spyware and ransomware. If you use it to surf the internet, your search terms will be recorded. It is dangerous since it will collect your important personal information and send to the hackers. To protect your computer and personal data, It is recommended to remove it as soon as possible. 

Helpful solutions to delete Motitags Toolbar 

Like many similar cases, you can delete it manually like the following steps. But when you carry out the manual steps, you may probably get problems, because it is hard for an inexperienced users to delete it manually and successfully.

Solution 1: Manual Removal

Step 1- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

Step 2- Show all hidden files

Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 3- Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer

1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';

2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;

3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;

4)  Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome

1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';

2) Choose 'Basic Options'.

3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;

4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;

5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';

2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;

3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';

Step 4- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AppData%\ Motitags Toolbar\[random].ini
%AppData%\ Motitags Toolbar

Step 5- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Motitags Toolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”

Solution 2: Automatic removal with SpyHunter, an anti-malware program

Step 1- Click on the Download button and save its application into your computer.

Step 2- Then a prompt box will pop up to ask you if you will run it, click Run and wait for its installation.

Step 3- When it finishes installation, click on the Scan Computer Now button to begin scanning, when it displays the final report of detected threats, remove them.

The video direction below can give you a hand

Summary: As we mentioned before, the manual tutorial can be very complicated since names of files or programs brought by Motitags Toolbar are difficult to be identified. So you are suggested to uninstall it with SpyHunter which can delete it automatically.Double click the icon below, then you can download SpyHunter.