How to remove PPS Video Player

What is PPS Video Player

PPS Video Player is an application allowing users to play videos of different formats. Whilst such features can be useful for some people, the program has significant flaws that may endanger your safety. As it turned out, PPS Video Player has adware capabilities to generate advertisements and banners across the browser. It does so using a so-called “virtual layer” that enables advertisements to be shown on any page. A range of gained clicks on the advertised content brings profit to its developers. This is the main purpose of PPS Video Player, but not the improvement of users’ experience. In addition to this, an important note is that such programs can gather personal data (passwords, IP-addresses, geolocations, etc.) and sell it to third-party organizations for additional profit. This is why we recommend you delete PPS Video Player from your computer to prevent identity issues.

How PPS Video Player infected your computer

Adware can be spread via customized repacks that get downloaded from the web. Usually, people install unwanted programs unintentionally, as a result of inexperience. They do not check “Advanced” or “Custom” sections that contain promotional offers. By that, users allow Potentially Unwanted Programs to sneak into the system and add new Windows services that negate manual removal. To avert this, you should be attentive whilst using third-party repacks for the installation of the desired program. Make sure you deselect extra applications using the above-mentioned information. Also, it is worth noting that potentially unwanted programs can be touted across the web in the form of banners. As you may understand, pushing your left mouse button on such content can be dangerous for your safety. You can follow our guide below to learn more about protection tips that will help you stay safe against similar threats.

1. Download PPS Video Player Removal Tool
2. Remove/Uninstall PPS Video Player from Control Panel and Applications
3. Remove PPS Video Player extensions from browsers
4. Reset browser search and homepage settings
5. Block PPS Video Player search redirects
6. How to protect from threats like PPS Video Player

Remove PPS Video Player manually for free

Here is the manual step-by-step tutorial for full PPS Video Player removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the PPS Video Player installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Remove PPS Video Player from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing PPS Video Player you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “PPS Video Player”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Mac.

Remove PPS Video Player from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. PPS Video Player might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag PPS Video Player from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Remove PPS Video Player from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find PPS Video Player or other recently installed suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove PPS Video Player from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find PPS Video Player or other recently installed suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove PPS Video Player from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find PPS Video Player or other recently installed suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove PPS Video Player from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall PPS Video Player from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate PPS Video Player or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate PPS Video Player or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall PPS Video Player

In some cases, PPS Video Player won’t uninstall and gives you a message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall PPS Video Player. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the PPS Video Player folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall PPS Video Player in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove PPS Video Player or other recently installed suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

and for Mac:

If you can’t uninstall PPS Video Player using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of PPS Video Player. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag PPS Video Player from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with PPS Video Player.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling PPS Video Player from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has browser extension and it may still be active in Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove PPS Video Player related extension from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find PPS Video Player extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find PPS Video Player extension.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose PPS Video Player extension.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove PPS Video Player from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable PPS Video Player, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable or PPS Video Player extension.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, PPS Video Player does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find PPS Video Player extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

How to block ads and pop-ups from PPS Video Player

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AdGuard browser assistant

PPS Video Player push notifications, in most cases, are caused by a program installed on your PC or add-on installed in browsers. However, sometimes it can appear on a clean computer when visiting a malicious website, using an advertising script. Also, apps that generate “PPS Video Player” ads and banners are themselves installed from pop-ups. To protect your PC and browsers from phishing websites, pop-up ads, banners, malicious scripts it is recommended to use AdGuard. Download free trial here:

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs, like PPS Video Player, may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and anti-malware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats, like PPS Video Player.