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I found this website because I did a search to see if other people had MapsGalaxy problems. I also uninstalled it, restarted the computer as directed, said I wasn’t interested, etc. As I was doing other follow-up work on the laptop, I saw a brief message that “MapsGalaxy is protecting my homepage.” Thus, this is definitely a malware company.
In my case, a friend was using MapQuest on her laptop and got the popup to download “files.” Thinking it was part of the MapQuest process, she clicked “OK” and the laptop immediately emitted a continuous and very loud vibration sound. She called me and I had to remove the battery to get it to stop.
I haven’t done it yet, but in the morning, I will do a RegEdit, search for “mapsg” (hopefully a unique string) in all fields and delete those entries with mapsgalaxy in any of the fields. I have done this operation with other malware and it has worked so far. This is a growing problem. More and more malware sites say “Uninstall Complete” but they leave “hooks” in the registry to resurrect themselves and take up where they left off.
If you know how to edit the registry, then you should be fine. If you haven’t edited the registry, get a technical friend to do it.
I’ll report on the results of my registry edit tomorrow.
Regards.
Bob