Remove “Plugins Button” Chrome Extension (Virus Removal Guide)

Plugins Button 0.9 (by pluginsbutton.com) is a malicious Google Chrome extension (Rogue.ForcedExtension) which may hijack your default search engine or display pop-up ads and unwanted advertisements on web pages that you visit.

The Plugins Button Chrome extension is promoted via a malicious JavaScript code from pluginsbutton.com, which will force the users to install this unwanted extension. Most often, your browser will be redirect to the pluginsbutton.com malicious websites from a crack, keygen, or adult entertainment site.

The pluginsbutton.com malicious site runs a JavaScript producing a dialog box, telling you you’ll have to “Add Extension to Leave”. Clicking “Cancel” once changes it to add a tick box marked “Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs” Thinking that this is the ticket out of the page, you will tick that box and click “OK”. At this point, your tab will go into “Full Screen” mode, and you will be prompted to install the Plugins Button extension.

A typical behavior for the Plugins Button malicious extensions is:

• Advertising banners are injected with the web pages that you are visiting.
• Random web page text is turned into hyperlinks.
• Browser popups appear which recommend fake updates or other software.
• Your browser homepage and default search may be changed
• Your browser search queries are being redirected or tracked

How to remove Plugins Button extension (Virus Removal Guide)

STEP 1: Reset the Group Policy to the default settings to remove Plugins Button extension

1. Open the Command Prompt by pressing “Windows Key + X”, and click on “Command Prompt (Admin)” to open it in Administrator mode.

You can easily open the command prompt by typing “cmd” into the search box (Win + S), then right-click and choose Run as Administrator.

In the Command prompt type (or copy/paste) the following commands:

1. Type:
   rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
   Press Enter.
2. Type:
   rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
   Press Enter.
3. Type:
   gpupdate /force
   Press Enter.

You should see the following notifications after the commands been run:
User Policy update has completed successfully.
Computer Policy update has completed successfully

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