Sunday, July 21, 2013

Remove Startsear.info Virus



Is Startsear.info a virus?

Startsear.info is a kind of hazardous browser hijacker virus, which is able to trigger many problems on the Target machine. Mostly, this tricky virus can be distributed by hacked websites, spam emails, and freeware. When Startsear.info is installed, each time you boot up your system, it will launch automatically and run on the background to affect your browsing activities. For example, when you open the browser like Google Chrome, IE, Mozilla Firefox, you would find the start page is changed to Startsear.info. And you will fail to get the right page back by modifying some settings like before. Moreover, every time you try to search for something online, you will get frustrated with your search results. That’s because each search result is repeatedly redirected to other unknown websites, which displace some ads rather than the correct information. Besides, your system will run extremely slow and opening a certain program will take more seconds. All of those annoying matters are owing to the browser hijacker called Startsear.info. Thus, the only way to end up the annoying happening is to remove Startsear.info virus from your PC immediately.

 





How to Remove Startsear.info virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Startsear.info Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Startsear.info Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete Startsear.info Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.


3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of Startsear.info Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\[random]
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\svflooje\Enum\[random]

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\Connection Wizard\[random]
%Windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[random].exe
%System%\[random].exe


Be known that Startsear.info Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.


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