Remove Mountain Bike Virus (Chrome/Edge/Firefox) | Updated

Mountain Bike is just another typical adware application which comes from the well-known SuperWeb LLC family. Identically to the other members of the aforementioned family, as soon as Mountain Bike infiltrates your computer, it generates tones of useless pop-up advertisements which can cause frequent system’s crashes and slow down your browsing sessions significantly.

Besides, the adverts might redirect you to some suspicious websites and seriously threaten your personal security. Therefore, the best thing you could do is to remove Mountain Bike from the system as soon as you notice its presence on it.

Mountain Bike is generally aimed at Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox users, because it looks like the adware does not work on Google Chrome web browser. As the unwanted program does not have an official website of its own, it uses various methods for infiltrating your virtual machine.

In fact, Mountain Bike should get your approval before it installs itself on your PC, but it does not mean that this will keep you safe. On the contrary, the adware application is such a trickery program that you won’t even realize that it has infected your system until the pop-up ads start flooding your monitor.

Most often, Mountain Bike hides behind other freeware, due to the fact that most computer users do not pay any attention while going through its installation process. Having in mind that freeware is often bundled with malware, you should be very careful when setting up new software on the system, as well as read all the terms and conditions provided by the installation wizard. In other case, it is very likely to end up with adware like Mountain Bike on your virtual machine.

Identically to every advertising-supported application, the primary objective of Mountain Bike is to make an easy profit in order to continue its existence. The only way to do this is to promote products and services of its affiliate third parties and displayed by the advertisements they provide.

Every time you click an advert, the developers of Mountain Bike make easy money. However, this could be very dangerous because these ads often lead to corrupted websites and your PC might get easily infected with malware. For that reason, removing Mountain Bike from the system is strongly recommended.

Unfortunately, there is another important issue related to Mountain Bike Ads, and this is the ability of the program to act as a spy and steal your personal data. Thus, even if you do not mind the multiple advertisements that much, keeping Mountain Bike on the system puts in danger your personal security. For that reason, the best thing you could do it to delete the adware application immediately and to protect your computer against any other threats in the future.

Mountain Bike Virus Removal

STEP-1 Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you know how to do this, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.
Safe Mode with Networking
For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌
Windows 8 Safe Mode with Network
Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.
win10 safemode 1
While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.
win10 safemode 2

STEP-2Please, follow the steps precisely to remove Mountain Bike Virus from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.
firefox extensions
Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).
chrome extensions

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.
ie gear
Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

STEP-3

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

ff shortcut

STEP-4

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

appwiz

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

STEP-5

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

task manager

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

STEP-6

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

msconfig

Go to the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still cannot remove Mountain Bike Virus from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.

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