Manual Removal Guide for FlvTube.Player

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "FlvTube.Player" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:

• pups

Description:

FlvTube.Player is a media player for playback of flv video files. It also installs FlvTube.Toolbar and runs an undeclared "Homepage Protection Service" in background. After installation it tries to make the user submit personal data to an unrelated thirdparty from Smiley Media.

Removal Instructions:

Installed Software List:

You can try to uninstall products with the names listed below; for items identified by other properties or to avoid malware getting active again on uninstallation, use Spybot-S&D or RunAlyzer to locate and get rid of these entries.

• Products that have a key or property named "FLVTube Player".
• Products that have a key or property named "rzj_E3".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

• The file at "<$COMMONDESKTOP>\FLVTube Player.lnk".
• The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\FLVTube Player\FLVTube Player.lnk".
• The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\FLVTube Player\Uninstall FLVTube Player.lnk".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\FLVTubePlayer.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\player.swf".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\preload.swf".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\Button.bmp".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\download.gif".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\Logo.bmp".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\skin.xml".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\SysCloseButton.bmp".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\SysMaxButton.bmp".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\SysMinButton.bmp".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1\Window.bmp".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Uninstall.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{a9cbe5d6-894b-f7a9-5ee9-0efbb48ad571}\chrome.manifest".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{a9cbe5d6-894b-f7a9-5ee9-0efbb48ad571}\components\0_-_7h5M.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{a9cbe5d6-894b-f7a9-5ee9-0efbb48ad571}\install.rdf".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\f7KWBUYHd.dll".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\rzj_E3.exe".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If FlvTube.Player uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Folders:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these folders.

• The directory at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\FLVTube Player".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin\Skin1".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player\Skin".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\FLVTube Player".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{a9cbe5d6-894b-f7a9-5ee9-0efbb48ad571}\chrome".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{a9cbe5d6-894b-f7a9-5ee9-0efbb48ad571}\components".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{a9cbe5d6-894b-f7a9-5ee9-0efbb48ad571}".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If FlvTube.Player uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify folders!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

• Delete the registry key "{d6bd3dd9-810f-aba3-465d-6a4426b875c6}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
• Delete the registry key "{d6bd3dd9-810f-aba3-465d-6a4426b875c6}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
• Delete the registry key "{eca3e63b-2d45-2cad-efb1-65fd6c346935}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
• Delete the registry key "-93V-i" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTube Player" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTubePlayer.exe" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\OpenWithList\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTubePlayer.exe" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.m4v\OpenWithList\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTubePlayer.exe" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\OpenWithList\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTubePlayer.exe" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTubePlayer" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\F4V Video\shell\".
• Delete the registry key "FLVTubePlayer" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FLV Video\shell\".
• Delete the registry value "(Default)" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\F4V Video\shell\open\command\".
• Delete the registry value "(Default)" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FLV Video\shell\".
• Delete the registry value "(Default)" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FLV Video\shell\open\command\".
• Delete the registry value "Start Page=http://fl.iamwired.net/" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\".

If FlvTube.Player uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,

1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.