How to remove BookLot

What is BookLot

BookLot is a Potentially Unwanted Program categorized as adware. The app stands for the remastered version of Wikipedia developed as a separate desktop program. In other words, BookLot should allow its users to search for various Wikipedia articles right from the desktop. Whilst this may seem useful indeed, BookLot cannot be trusted in multiple aspects. Adware programs alter certain settings to display intrusive and dubious ads, collect personal data (passwords, IP addresses, geolocations, etc.), and run countless other suspicious activities. Content promoted by BookLot may be seen whilst surfing the web and contain hidden redirects to potentially dangerous pages. For this exact reason, it is recommended to remove BookLot from your system. Sometimes it may be hard to perform the complete removal on your own. Thus, you can follow our tutorial below to do this.

How BookLot infected your computer

Applications like BookLot are often distributed via bundled software. This method is used by third-party vendors to promote their software alongside other programs. The list of such programs consists of free, pirated, or cracked software downloaded from dubious pages. Installation setups of this software usually contain additional offers within “Advanced”, “Custom”, or “Manual” sections. Unless users decline these offers on their own, an unwanted program will be installed in the system without consent. This is why it is important to check it and deselect third-party programs in case they are existent. Rarely, but yet some unwanted programs can be installed after clicking on malicious ads. This is only possible if such ads have been equipped with executable scripts that run background installations. Before closing this part and moving on to removal instructions, it is also worth mentioning that BookLot has its own installation setup that can be downloaded from the official website. However, pages with such software are never visited intentionally unless you clicked on a banner leading to them.

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

Remove BookLot manually for free

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

Remove BookLot from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing BookLot you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “BookLot”. 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 BookLot from Mac:

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

Remove BookLot from Windows XP:

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

Remove BookLot from Windows 7:

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

Remove BookLot 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 BookLot or other recently installed suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove BookLot from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall BookLot 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 BookLot 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 BookLot or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall BookLot

In some cases, BookLot won’t uninstall and gives you a message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall BookLot. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the BookLot 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 BookLot 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 BookLot 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 BookLot using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of BookLot. Follow instructions below:

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

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling BookLot 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 BookLot related extensions 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 BookLot 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 BookLot 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 BookLot 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 BookLot from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable BookLot, 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 BookLot extension.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, BookLot 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 BookLot extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Remove following files, folders and registry keys

Files and folders:


C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\BookLot\
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\BookLot
BookLot.exe
d3dcompiler_47.dll
ffmpeg.dll
icudtl.dat
libEGL.dll
libGLESv2.dll
natives_blob.bin
node.dll
notification_helper.exe
nw.dll
nw_100_percent.pak
nw_200_percent.pak
nw_elf.dll
resources.pak
snapshot_blob.bin
storage.json
Uninstall.exe
v8_context_snapshot.bin
BookLot.lnk
Uninstall.lnk
BookLot.17.2102.1pawk.exe


Registry keys


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\BookLot
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\nwjs
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "BookLot"="REG_SZ"" "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\BookLot\BookLot.exe --su"


How to block ads and pop-ups from BookLot

BookLot 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 “BookLot” 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:

Download AdGuard for Windows

Download AdGuard for Mac

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs, like BookLot, 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 BookLot.