DiscoverLiveRadio Browser hijacker Removal Tool

Discover Live Radio toolbar is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that falls into the group of Adware. It is a browser extension that states to give a user an access to over 1000 online radio stations and also let a user easily search the web for lyrics, pop quizzes, Sound Tracks, and much more. Most of the users believed it to be a form of a virus.

Once this is application is installed on your PC, your home page will change to:

http://www.myway.com

It might look something like this:

How did Discover Live Radio get there?

This program gets access to the target computer without taking permission. Generally, computers are occupied by adware through the help of freeware. It can be in the form of utilities, free games, media players, file downloaders and fake software updates.

How malicious is Discover Live Radio?

1. This search tool changes the homepage and a tab with a new URL on the browser.
2. Once installed on victim’s PC, this extension can make lots of changes to the homepage and browser settings.
3. This toolbar is very dangerous for the victim as this keeps an eye on the browsing activities.
4. This program spoils user’s PC by slowing down the process.
5. This PUP program tracks the browsing history, web searches and personal details like bank details, credit card details and much more. This data is then sold to third party to make revenue out of it.

Detected Behavior

1. When you launch the infected browser you will notice that the homepage has been changed.
2. An extensive number of pop-ups and banners are being displayed on the user’s browser.
3. The search engine will get changed to http://www.myway.com on the browser.

Targeted Browsers

The Discover Live Radio browser hijacker targets major browsers like:

1. Chrome
2. Firefox
3. Internet Explorer (IE)

How to remove Discover Live Radio browser

You can remove the Discover Live Radio browser hijacker using the following methods:

Removing Discover Live Radio using DiscoverLiveRadio_RemovalTool.

Scan your PC with:

        1. Download Discover Live Radio RemovalTool by clicking on the given link:
             Discover Live Radio RemovalTool 

        2. As soon as you open the downloaded file a security warning will pop-up as shown below, click on ‘Run’ button.

            NOTE: You will not see this pop-up in Windows 10.

        3. A pop-up window will appear again. Click on ‘Yes’.

        4. Now, It will automatically detect and show the active threats present in your system.

        5  Then a setup window will open, click ‘Next’ button to start the installation process.

        6. To remove all the threats which were detected, click on ‘Clean Now’.
            

            NOTE: If any browser is still running, close it before proceeding.
            

        7. A window will now show up saying all the infected files, folders and registry entries has been removed successfully.