Monday, September 16, 2013

Remove Search.getgosoft.com Virus

Is Search.getgosoft.com a virus?

Search.getgosoft.com is defined as a very nasty web hijacker virus, whose major job is to corrupt every browser installed on infected computer and hijack victims to malicious websites. In general, this pest invades your machine via attachment files, spam emails, and free downloads. So we have to warn you that you should pay enough attention when opening some stuffs or downloading some programs online. Once search.getgosoft.com breaks into your machine, the first thing it will do is to change the browser settings slightly without your notice. By then, you will see that the browser performs poorly, which is always redirected to search.getgosoft.com or other unknown websites randomly. Moreover, your search engine and homepage will be replaced by its malicious search engine and homage very soon. As a result, no matter when you open the browser, search.getgosoft.com can pop up suddenly to block the website that you tend to visit. And once its search engine, not only the search results will be rerouted to somewhere else, which have nothing relevant to your search question, but also the search items will be recorded. Hence, search.getgosoft.com is so malicious and risky that you should remove it right now.  




How to Remove Search.getgosoft.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1


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

C:\program files
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

Be known that Search.getgosoft.com 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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