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2013-06-26, 13:00
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "XingHao.LyricsPal" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
adware
Description:
XingHao.LyricsPal is adware that can display lyrics for some music videos on Youtube. It opens a popup windows with advertising first and gets installed as bundled software even if the main software cannot be installed. XingHao.LyricsPal installs for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Removal Instructions:
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{A3DAEB01-4C15-4AC6-A689-6406FD954EE0}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
If XingHao.LyricsPal uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
adware
Description:
XingHao.LyricsPal is adware that can display lyrics for some music videos on Youtube. It opens a popup windows with advertising first and gets installed as bundled software even if the main software cannot be installed. XingHao.LyricsPal installs for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Removal Instructions:
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{A3DAEB01-4C15-4AC6-A689-6406FD954EE0}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
If XingHao.LyricsPal uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.