Spotify is hijacked by free youtube to mp3 convertor when it tries to update and re open

Question

I have been having this problem for a few weeks now. The only solution is to uninstall spotify and re-install it. This would cure the problem for a few days but now it will not even cure it for a few minutes. If I reboot windows and open up Spotify the DVDsoftware takes over. I had this software on my computer once but deleted it and thought I had erased all traces of it. 

Answer 1

Hello: Any idea what the full name of the third party DVD software was? Some of those programs are just bloatware and packed full of spyware, and malware, they often are designed to recopy themselves when the system is trying to remove and delete the program. There are a few programs that might help get you going and remove this stuff, but you have to be able to read through the help set up information, so you do not mess up your system. You can get malwarebytes that takes care of a good chunk of nasties like this. I use a third party cleaner tool to find left over traces of stuff in the system registry, and temp folders, and things that get scattered around the HD file system by software installs, the third party program is called Glary Utilities, some people use CCleaner as well and have better results. All I can say is good luck, things like this is a royal pain.