Remove—Uninstall Guide to Get Rid of VAF Player Malware

Complaints about VAF Player junk

I have somehow acquired something called VAF Player I am having trouble uninstalling it I can't do it through the control panel and I can't find it in program files. When I try to uninstall it a window with a language I don't recognize pops up saying what I think is error and it won't let me go any further.  Has anyone else had the same problem? Any ideas about how to uninstall it? Thanks in advance.

I was prompted by adobe to update flash player and now I have VAF Player on my computer. How do I remove VAF Player from my computer? I have tried to uninstall it from control panel, but failed.  My operating system is window 7.

True features about VAF Player

VAF Player is also called VAFPlayer, VAF Video Player, VAF Music Player, VideoPlayer v2.0.6, latestvideoplayer, etc.  It is a malware which may make a huge chaos to the infected computer. To allure inexperienced people, VAF player pretends to be a useful application that allows users to combine different formats into a music playlist. It supports mp3, mp4, avi, and many other formats. Moreover, it has a search function which enables the user to find an online video or music clip and add it to the playlist. This ad is so attractive and appeals to many music lovers to install it from its official website. 

However, when VAF Player gets into the computer, it shows its malicious traits. It will intrude into the computer operating system, and eat up the system resource. At the same time, VAF Player malware may chisel up a backdoor for other computer viruses to invade into the compromised PC. Therefore, users may encounter a lot of computer issues, such as interrupting by the pop-up ads when surfing the internet, default search engine and homepages are altered by others and some strange applications run automatically when the PC is started etc.

At the same time, users may also notice the PC is running more and more slowly, it will take them a long time to open an application on the PC. If you realize VAF player malware is eroding your operating system and resource, take action to remove it right now. Since antivirus software fail to deal with this foxy computer, manual removal method is needed to help you get rid of VAF player completely and thoroughly from your PC.

The screenshot of VAF Player:

Method one:VAF Player virus manual removal guide
1. Stop all the malicious processes about VAF Player virus
Guide: Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK

Terminate all the processes about VAF Player.exe

2: show hidden files and folders and delete all the following files.
Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

 Delete all the following files belong to VAF Player virus
• C:\Program Files\ VAF Player \license.rtf
• C:\Program Files\ VAF Player \uninstaller.exe
• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ VAF Player \ VAF Player virus Tutorial
• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ VAF Player \License Agreement

3: open Registry Editor to delete all the vicious registries as below
Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ VAF Player
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ VAF PlayerSettingsMngr
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ VAF Player
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ VAF Player

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove VAF Player with Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and remove VAF Player

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of VAF Player, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing VAF Player and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove VAF Player automatically for you.