Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Get Rid of srchz.com Virus Step by Step



Is Srchz.com a virus?

srchz.com redirect should be a very harmful browser hijacker infection, which is able to target various browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. So, if your PC is infected by this little pest, the browser that you have installed on the system will give a poor performance. First of all, the start page on the browser will be replaced by srchz.com. And you will become very depressed to try to get it back to the original website because every attempt will turn out to be a failure. Moreover, the search engine will always let you down, for that it cannot help you dig out any news or information from the Internet anymore. That’s because srchz.com redirect is likely to redirect all websites that you try to open, including your search results. In addition, since it is a browser hijacker, this little virus will inject its malicious codes to the browser add-ons, by which it can annoy you with tons of commercial ads. So that’s why you always get lots of ads when surfing the Internet. Finally, what makes things worse is that srchz.com redirect will record your browsing history for other malicious activities. Hence, you must get rid of it as soon as right away.





How to Remove Srchz.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
 


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

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ Srchz.com \
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat
 

Be known that Srchz.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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