Teach You to Throughly Remove MyPlayCity.com - Remove Redirect Virus from Your PC

My computer has been infected by MyPlayCity.com but I have no idea how to remove it. I clear temp files to tune up the browser performance and avoid fishing websites. However, all the default settings have been changed to unknown strange website. Does anyone know how to remove MyPlayCity.com and recover the affected web browser? I need your help!

Friendly Reminder：Please try a professional redirect virus removal tool to remove this redirect virus once you can't remove it through the manual removal guide below.

How to Eradicate MyPlayCity.com From the Computer? 

MyPlayCity.com is a vicious browser hijacker which disguises as a legal web site to attract people to click the ads or use the search bar to search information on that page. When you first take a glance at it, you will think that it is a legitimate website just like google.com or bing.com. There is only a search bar on the whole page. You can use it to search by entering keywords into the search bar. However, the search results have nothing to do with what you are looking for. The search results it offers are often websites with advertising or unhealthy contents. So this search engine is fake and useless. If you click those search results, you might get infected with some other viruses. This will put your browser in a dangerous state. For instance, some browser settings and system settings are changed and the computer security levels become lower. As a result, malware can invade into your computer to steal personal information such as credit card number if you use any online payment. The personal files stored in your computer will also be stolen. Some people may get into worse condition, for instance, the virus encrypt some personal files and you can never decrypt them easily. The worst thing is that you won’t be able to open them!

Generally, your computer may be invaded by this threat when you visit some insecure websites. Sometimes, when you visit a website, you may see a pop-up asking if you want to keep that website as your homepage. If you don’ need it, you can click No button. Once you modify homepage setting and replace the previous one by MyPlayCity.com, the hijacker may get a chance to take over your browser. Once you allows MyPlayCity.com to be your homepage, it will hijack your browser. Certainly, when you visit some other malicious websites, your computer is likely to be infected by other malware. Before you visit a website, please make sure that it is free of virus. Currently, you may consider eliminating the browser hijacker by the help of manual removal solution instead of utilizing the antivirus program for the virus can effectively avoid its scanner. If your antivirus program cannot effectively clean up this redirect virus, then you can try the manual removal way to remove it out of your computer. Please follow the guide given below to manually get rid of the redirect virus. Don’t ever neglect this threat and let it stay in your computer for a long time, for it can cause greater trouble than you can imagine.

Guides to Manually Remove MyPlayCity.com – Remove Redirect Virus Step by Step

Step 1- Reboot your computer into "safe mode with networking" by constantly tapping F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up.

Step 2- Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):

Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.

Step 3- Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections from MyPlayCity.com Redirect Virus

For Windows XP: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the Run box -> click OK to open the System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from MyPlayCity.com Redirect Virus.

For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated from MyPlayCity.com Redirect Virus.

Step4- Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer

1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';

2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;

3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;

4) Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

Google Chrome

1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';

2) Choose 'Basic Options'.

3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;

4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;

5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';

2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;

3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';

Step 5- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)

[random].exe

Step 6- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:

%AllUsersProfile%{random}

%AllUsersProfile%{random}*.lnk

Step 7- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settingsrandom

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerDisallowRun

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunrandom

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon "Shell" = "[random].exe"

Step 8-Restart your computer normally to check whether there is still redirection while browsing.

Important Note! If you don’t want your data be missing or lost, back up it to a safe place except disk C. You may face the risk of errors or data loss caused by wrong removal of the files. Therefore, it requires you to have sufficient computer expertise to perform the manual removal. If you are not sure about it, using a specialized tool to deal with it is the best choice.

Summary: MyPlayCity.com Virus can destroy your computer system. Even many famous antivirus programs couldn’t remove it safely and completely. You need to be careful when downloading programs from the internet. It may turn out to be a useless and even malicious program. Before you start to remove the browser hijacker, you may need to think twice for the solutions. Before you take the removal steps, please consider it seriously. The instructions above are for the common infection situation. MyPlayCity.com appears to be different among infested machine world- wide. Even worse, it can start to distribute itself through multiple ways. Please don’t look down on this virus because it can cause various unexpected troubles. The related files may have been modified. At this time, it may be hard for you to completely remove it from your computer.