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MovieLand Removal Instructions

Posted: September 25, 2006

Why is it important to remove MovieLand?

MovieLand is an illegal and corrupt anti-spyware program!

MovieLand displays fake warnings that your machine is infected with spyware. If you click MovieLand’s icon or fake alert, you’ll be taken to a site to buy MovieLand, though MovieLand program may actually damage your computer and not protect you against spyware. Usually MovieLand secretly downloads and installs itself onto your computer.

I have MovieLand, what do I do?

You have many options for detecting and removing MovieLand. The most extreme is reformatting your PC, possibly costing you all of your data and definitely costing hour of time wasted on reloading your PC to its original form. Reformatting your computer should be your last resort. If you’re having problems finding MovieLand, try using a preferred spyware scanner to quickly detect MovieLand first. If you don’t have a spyware scanner, you can always try the instructional methods provided below.

  • Start a full system scan to detect MovieLand & other parasites.
  • SpyHunter will automatically search for MovieLand files.

Please note that SpyHunter’s free scanner is only for detection purposes. If SpyHunter’s scanner finds MovieLand on your PC, you can buy SpyHunter’s full version to remove MovieLand and other spyware.

Are you infected with MovieLand?

Your machine may be infected with MovieLand, if you have the following symptoms:
*Note: Symptoms tend to vary depending on software installed on your system and other system factors.

Symptom #1: A questionable red or green icon appears in your system tray next to the system clock, representing a newly installed program which you do not recall ever downloading. If you click on the icon a fake system alert popup will direct you to MovieLand’s website. In some cases, even when you don’t click on the icon the fake system alert may still pop up.

Symptom #2: The questionable icon pops up a fake system alert that lures you into downloading MovieLand program by stating that your computer is infected with dangerous spyware and that you should download MovieLand program to remove the alleged infection. The false system alert may read:

“Your computer is infected! Dangerous infection was detected on your PC. The system will now download and install most efficient antimalware program to prevent data loss and your private information theft. Click here to protect your computer from the biggest malware threats.”

Symptom #3: Once you’re infected, rogue anti-spyware MovieLand will run on every time Windows starts up. A screenshot of MovieLand is provided below.

MovieLand Screenshot

MovieLand Manual Detection

If you’ve discovered that MovieLand has infected your PC, you must act quickly and take the proper steps to eliminating the infection. Note: The manual removal of any parasite is difficult. To avoid the unnecessary risk of damaging your computer, we advise you to download SpyHunter’s spyware scanner tool to automatically detect MovieLand.

To manually remove MovieLand, follow these removal steps:

Step #1: Remove MovieLand with Windows Add/Remove Programs utility.

Sometimes all it takes to get rid of spyware like MovieLand is to remove the program using the Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows.

  1. In Windows XP Professional, click on Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
  2. In Windows 2000 Professional / Windows ME / Windows 98, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
  3. In the list of programs, search for the software you want to remove. If you see a program you don’t recognize or don’t recall installing, look it up in Google to learn what it is.
  4. Select the questionable program and remove it with the Remove button.

Step #2: Kill MovieLand using the Windows Task Manager

To kill a MovieLand process that has infected your computer, you will need to use the Windows Task Manager to check by process, highlight the process in question, and then end the task. To do this:

  1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC on the keyboard.
  2. Click on Processes Tab to see all active tasks. For easier detection, left click the process under the heading Image Name.
  3. Find and kill the following MovieLand process:
    nodeipproc.exe
    camnotifier.exe
    itbill.exe
    p2pl.exe
    p2pinst.exe
    mpupdate.exe
    p2pnetworks.exe
    mpp2pl.exe
    downloadmanager.exe
    uninst.exe
    dm.exe
    api.exe
    movieland_access_g.exe
    license_manager.exe
    mptray.exe
  4. Once you’ve identified the MovieLand process, press DEL on your keyboard or click End Process to kill it from your system.

Step #3: Use PsKill to Kill a Process

Sometimes a parasite can disable your Windows Task Manager so you can use pslist and pskill (a third party application by Mark Russinovich) to list and kill the unwanted processes.

  1. Download PsKill or PsList.
  2. Extract the program from the .Zip archive.
  3. Move pskill.exe to your C: drive.
  4. Open a command window and click Start > Run.
  5. Type cmd and click the OK button.
  6. In the command window, type C:pskill.exe and the name of the process you wish to kill, then press Enter. For example, if you wanted to kill the process for MovieLand, you would type: C:pskill.exe MovieLand.exe.
    If the file was successfully removed, PsKill will say “process MovieLand.exe killed”.
  7. Find and Remove these MovieLand files:
    nodeipproc.exe
    entry.dll
    camnotifier.exe
    alp2plib.log
    alconfig.xml
    movielandterms.html
    downloadmanager.lnk
    247cams.lnk
    sp2p.cache
    itbill_terms.txt
    install.log
    errorlog.txt
    downloadmanager.ini
    movieland.url
    movielandterms.lnk
    terms.lnk
    agent.dll
    insdl.dll
    register.dll
    itbill.exe
    p2pl.exe
    p2pinst.exe
    mpupdate.exe
    p2pnetworks.exe
    mpp2pl.exe
    downloadmanager.exe
    uninst.exe
    dm.exe
    api.exe
    movieland_access_g.exe
    license_manager.exe
    Arraymptray.exe

    entry.dll
    agent.dll
    insdl.dll
    Arrayregister.dll

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