SafetyNut Removal Guide

SafetyNut is considered to be a potentially undesirable program which may enter your PC silently or with your knowledge when installing bundled freeware. Even though the application is not highly notable and does not seem too dangerous, you need to stay cautious. This PUP is often bundled with advertisement supported programs, and so you can identify it as an adware helper as well. If you have agreed to install the application, it is unlikely that you will be worried about such suspicious files as safetynut_ie.dll, safetynut.dll or safetyldr_u.dll. However, if you have not authorized their activity, you should think about getting SafetyNut deleted.

Has the Movies Toolbar been installed onto your personal computer? This is a browser extension which can be installed onto Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers. The publisher of this application is IAC Search and Media, and it may be responsible for letting SafetyNut in. This browser extension is often considered to be a browser hijacker because it has the ability to change the home page of existing browsers to home.tb.ask.com and the default search provider to Ask Search. Note that these search tool changes are optional and you do not need to install undesirable search tools if you do not want to.

The suspicious SafetyNut is often found under C:\Program Files\Movies Toolbar\SafetyNut if it comes bundled with the Movies Toolbar. The folder may hold a variety of different files, and the related processes can slow down the operating system. You should not ignore symptoms like that because they may indicate the existence of malware. Luckily, SafetyNut is not a dangerous program. Despite this, the browser plugin is not beneficial either, and so there is no point in keeping it on your operating system. We also recommend that you remove Movies Toolbar because it is not the most reliable application you can use as well.

Do you want to remove SafetyNut? If yes, we recommend that you remove this suspicious application together with the Movies Toolbar. Use the instructions below to have the undesirable programs deleted from the PC manually. If this is the option you choose, we also recommend using a malware scanner to determine if you should delete any other applications. You can entrust the SafetyNut removal to authentic security software. We recommend using SpyHunter because the program is up-to-date and can delete both malicious and potentially undesirable programs, like SafetyNut itself.

Delete SafetyNut

Delete from Windows XP:

1. Open the Start menu by clicking the Start button on the Task Bar.
2. Go to Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs.
3. Click the undesirable program and then click the Remove button.

Delete from Windows Vista/Windows 7:

1. Click the Start icon on the Task Bar to open the menu from the bottom-left corner.
2. Select Control Panel and then click Uninstall a program.
3. Right-click the application you wish to remove and select Uninstall.

Delete from Windows 8:

1. Access the Metro UI menu (tap the Windows key) and right-click on the screen.
2. Click All apps, open the Control Panel and move to Uninstall a program.
3. Find the program you wish to remove from the computer, right-click it and select Uninstall.