MyPlayCity.com Removal Guide

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MyPlayCity.com is a free flash games website which is also regarded as a browser hijacker because one day it can become the home page and search provider for your Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. This may occur if you decide to install one of the games or a toolbar that is featured on the website. Moreover, the application can arrive at the PC as a bundled download; in either case, it is important that you pay attention to the information provided in the license agreement of the application.

Below you will find two statements which could be skipped easily if one does not read the information provided:

Set MyPlayCity.com as my homepage in IE, FF, Opera and Chrome

Add MyPlaceCity.com as a search provider in IE, FF, Opera and Chrome

If you download the MyPlaceCity toolbar, you will find that it also installs a racing game Road Attack. However, the toolbar is not present on the Extensions lists of the browsers and the only way to remove it from the system manually is by uninstalling it through Control Panel.

Once you install the program related to MyPlayCity.com, the home page of the browsers is changed to start.myplaycity.com. It contains a boxed label New Games so that you can access the latest games released by MyPlayCity.com.

We recommend that you avoid using the original website MyPlayCity.com where various games are presented as the website contains various advertisements which you should not click on in order to minimize the risk of getting the computer infected with various computer viruses. If you are directed to a website where you are asked to enter your personal information or make a money transaction, do not do this until you are sure that the website is safe and reliable.

As to the removal of MyPlayCity.com, it is necessary to delete the application which has changed the settings and restore the default browser settings. You can do it manually by following our instructions below, but keep in mind that it is still necessary to scan the PC for malware. In case want to have the so-called browser hijacker removed automatically, install SpyHunter which will terminate the unwanted application and protected the PC against potential computer infections.

How to remove MyPlayCity.com

Windows Vista and Windows 7

  1. Open the Start menu.
  2. Click Control Panel.
  3. Double-click the program which has changed the settings of your browsers.

Windows 8

  1. Move the mouse over the lower left corner of the screen.
  2. Right-click.
  3. Click Control Panel.
  4. Under the heading Programs, click Uninstall a program.
  5. Double-click the application that you want to remove.

Windows XP

  1. Open the Start menu.
  2. Click Control Panel.
  3. Select Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Mark the program you want to remove and then click Remove.

Remove MyPlayCity.com from the browser

Internet Explorer

  1. Alt+T.
  2. Select Manage Add-ons.
  3. Click Toolbars and Extensions.
  4. If MyPlaceCity add-on is present, disable it.
  5. Click Search Providers.
  6. Disable the unwanted search provider set a new one.
  7. Press Alt+T.
  8. Click Internet Options.
  9. Open the General tab and change the home page.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+A.
  2. In the Extensions section, remove MyPlayCity if it is present.
  3. To change the home page, press Alt+T.
  4. Click Options.
  5. Under the General tab, type a new URL in the Home Page section.
  6. To change the search provider, open the drop-down menu and click Manage Search Engines.
  7. Remove MyPlayCity and select a new search provider.

Google Chrome

  1. Press Alt+F.
  2. Point to Tools - > Extensions.
  3. Remove the unwanted add-ons if any are present.
  4. Click Settings.
  5. Click Set pages in the On startup section and change the startup page.
  6. In the Search section, click Manage search engines and set a new search provider.

Once you are done, download and install our free scanner which will examine the system and present a list of computer threats if any are present within the system.

Download Remover for MyPlayCity.com *
*SpyHunter scanner, published on this site, is intended to be used only as a detection tool. To use the removal functionality, you will need to purchase the full version of SpyHunter.

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