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Remove NSIS Media Malware and Trojan

FREE and NSIS Media Removal in 4 Easy Steps

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This tutorial will explain what NSIS Media is, how you got infected with NSIS Media, and what you need to do IMMEDIATELY to remove NSIS Media from your PC and repair your FireFox browser.

This website is the largest collection of information on the web about the NSIS Media malware infection (and trojan) that is plaguing your FireFox installation. This remove NSIS Media tutorial is a multi-page tutorial, so be certain to follow the links below and follow all directions precisely.

Whle the precise origins of the NSIS Media infection (not to be confused with the legitimate NSIS Media Installer) is somewhat vague, many online discussions and software reviews appear to peg the infection's source to a number of freeware and shareware programs authored by a company called Openwares that were made available ontheir website, www.openwares.org, as well as CNET's Download.com.


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The main culprit appears to be their Arcade Classic Arcade Pack 5 with more than 1.8 million downloads since June of 2006. Click here for a complete list of Openwares' software available on Downlad.com. Openwares.org is also a software download website that houses software from multiple authors. There have been reports that downloading and installing the Foxie browser and firewall also result in becoming infected with the NSIS Media malware. There have also been reports (although not confirmed) that updating FireFox extensions can also result in infection.

Once you become infected with NSIS your firefox browser will use the explorer.exe file in your Windows installation to begin displaying pop-up advertisements when you are using your FireFox browser. To our knowledge, this is the first successful widespread attempt to infect the FireFox browser specifically with advertising malware. The trojan infection provides you with a removal lin in your add/remove programs control panel, however reports indicate that this is simply a ruse to make users believe the software has been removed. After the removal completes, users are instructed to restart their computer. Upon restarting the infecion is reinstalled and will continue to deliver advertising content.

Many anti-virus and anti-malware companies are beginning to list this infection as a malware trojan, however investigation into the infection as a whole is ongoing. what is aparent is that this infection specifically targets the FireFox browser and requires the complete removal of FireFox and the accompanying infection before the opensource browser can be reinstalled.

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