Remove Search.anchorfree.net Virus

Is Search.anchorfree.net a virus?

Search.anchorfree.net is a browser hijacker virus that belongs to Google Redirect Virus. Usually, this virus can pretend to be a functional site that can provide you something useful. However, it is only a fake website that you should not trust in any cases. You might get this virus in your PC when browsing on suspicious websites, downloading freeware from infected sites, or opening a spam attachment email with your vulnerable PC. Once Search.anchorfree.net is installed onto your PC, you will realize how annoying it can be. To begin with, it is no doubt that your browser settings will be modified on the background by this hazardous virus, which will lead to poor performance of your browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and IE. Moreover, in this way, this virus also can replace your home page with Search.anchorfree.net. And you will be denied to change it back to the former one. In addition, in order to damage your system, this virus may download other malicious malware onto your system. By then, the rest of your system space will be occupied completely, which will make your system run much slower than before. Form above, you can see that Search.anchorfree.net is really annoying, so you should remove this virus as soon as possible.  

How to Remove Search.anchorfree.net virus manually?

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

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Search.anchorfree.net 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 Search.anchorfree.net 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 Search.anchorfree.net Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\search.anchorfree.net Redirect Popups

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser

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

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\

C:\WINDOWS\system32\giner.exe

Be known that Search.anchorfree.net 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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