How to remove Watch Movies Live

What is Watch Movies Live

Watch Movies Live is a browser hijacker that installs a fake search engine (search.watchmovieslivetab.app), changes the homepage appearance, and gathers browser-related data without the consent of users. All these traits indicate that Watch Movies Live is unwanted and should not be used. Cybercriminals use the search.watchmovieslivetab.app as an intermediary page before showing search results from the official search.yahoo.com.

By doing so, developers forge their traffic and earn money on it. In addition, the installation of Watch Movies Live brings a number of widgets (e.g., a quick search for different movies, news weather, etc.). And while these features may seem useful at first glance, they are simply a veil for the illegal and unwanted activity of the browser hijacker.

Due to the data-tracking capabilities we mentioned above, cybercriminals may stealthily collect various browser-related data (such as IP addresses, geolocations, history, cookies, etc.) and exploit it for financial purposes in the future. Thus, the presence of Watch Movies Live can lead to various privacy issues and put users’ safety at risk. Take measures to prevent these threats and ensure computer safety by removing the browser hijacker with our guidelines below.

How Watch Movies Live infected your computer

Various toolbars, extensions, and ostensibly useful apps can be distributed through other third-party software. Unfortunately, due to lack of experience and carefulness, many users skip over additional offers that hide within third-party installers. One of such offers could be Watch Movies Live presented as a “useful” tool “worth having installed”. It is advised against agreeing with the installation of promoted products, especially in unofficial software installers.

Always look into additional settings named “Advanced”, “Custom”, “Manual”, or similar to detect additional software and remove its selection. It is worth saying that downloading unofficial installers of free, cracked, or pirated software will always expose you to the risk of dealing with unwanted software or even malware. Thus, it is advised to avoid it and download programs only from official and trustworthy pages. If you became a victim of unwanted changes, follow our guide below to deal with them and protect yourself against such threats in the future.

1. Download Watch Movies Live Removal Tool
2. Remove Watch Movies Live from Control Panel and Applications
3. Remove Watch Movies Live extensions from browsers
4. Reset browser search and homepage settings
5. Alternative way to remove Watch Movies Live search redirects
6. Clean browser shortcuts from Watch Movies Live
7. How to protect from threats like Watch Movies Live

Remove Watch Movies Live manually for free

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

Note: Watch Movies Live can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Watch Movies Live from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Watch Movies Live you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Watch Movies Live”. 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, Windows 11, or Mac.

Remove Watch Movies Live from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Watch Movies Live-related or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Watch Movies Live from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Watch Movies Live-related or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Watch Movies Live 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 Watch Movies Live-related or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Watch Movies Live from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Watch Movies Live 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 Watch Movies Live-related or other 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 Watch Movies Live-related or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Remove Watch Movies Live from Windows 11:

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the Apps tab on the left side.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Watch Movies Live-related or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on 3-dots icon near it and then click Uninstall button near it.
6. Depending on the type of application (Windows Store app or classic Win32 app) it will be removed immediately or you will need to confirm the action and go through standard uninstall procedure.

Remove Watch Movies Live from Mac:

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

Cannot uninstall Watch Movies Live in Windows

In some cases, Watch Movies Live won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Watch Movies Live. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Watch Movies Live 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 Watch Movies Live 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 Watch Movies Live or other suspicious program

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

Cannot uninstall Watch Movies Live in MacOS

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

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

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Watch Movies Live from Control Panel or Applications often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has a browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Watch Movies Live-related extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Watch Movies Live related extension.
4. Click the Remove button 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. Find Watch Movies Live related extension.
4. Click three-dots icon near it and choose Remove in the menu.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Safari:

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

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) edge://extensions.
3. Find Watch Movies Live related extension.
4. Click Remove link under the name of extension.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. 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 Watch Movies Live from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Watch Movies Live, 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 Watch Movies Live or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Watch Movies Live 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 Watch Movies Live or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Watch Movies Live installs a search engine that hijacks your browsers. Here is the instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab, and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. On the left panel expand Advanced options.
4. Choose Reset and clean up.
5. Click on Restore settings to their original defaults link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Google Chrome > Settings > Advanced

Reset and clean up

Reset Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Refresh Firefox… button.
4. Click Refresh Firefox button in opened dialog window to confirm.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser
2. Click on 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
3. On the left panel find and click Reset settings option.
4. Click on Restore settings to their default values link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Start Opera browser and click on Opera icon in the top-left corner.
2. Choose Settings and click Advanced on the left side and choose Browser.
3. Scroll down to the very bottom and click on Restore settings to their original defaults link.
4. Confirm by clicking Reset button.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Watch Movies Live. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Download Avast Browser Cleanup

Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

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Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Watch Movies Live 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-virus programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Watch Movies Live.

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