Get Rid of search.playsides.com Virus

Is Search.playsides.com a virus?

search.playsides.com is classified as a dangerous browser hijacker infection, which is able to mess up your browsing activities once it is installed on your system. From its outer appearance, you may consider this infection as a normal site that is similar with other legal websites. However, it is not as legal as you think. As a matter of fact, search.playsides.com is very hazardous, which is related to many malicious viruses, such as Trojan horse, malware, and rogue antivirus program. Thus, if you notice that this malicious website always pops up on the screen, you must try hard to remove it from the browser immediately, or it will cause many terrible things on the system. Firstly, search.playsides.com will substitute your favorite homepage without your permission by changing some default settings of the browser. Moreover, it messes up all browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. When you open a new tab, search.playsides.com will pop up suddenly, and you cannot stop this happening by all means. Besides, this infection may also redirect your search results to some websites that contain some malicious ads but not the information that you are searching for. In a word, once infected by search.playsides.com, you should delete it the moment you find it on the system.

How to Remove Search.playsides.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Search.playsides.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.playsides.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.playsides.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.playsides.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFUALT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\[random]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random

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

%Temp%random.exe

%Appadata%random.ini

Be known that Search.playsides.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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