Remove search.metacrawler.com Redirect Virus

Is Search.metacrawler.com a virus?

search.metacrawler.com is manifested as a kind of dangerous browser hijacker infection, which is good at modifying some browser settings of the target computers without users’ approval. Usually, this virus often hides in some free program or malicious websites. So, if your machine is infected by this little virus, it must be that you have visited some malicious sites or downloaded an infected program from the Internet. After i.search.metacrawler.com enters your system, it can make chaos to mess up your browsing activities.

At the first sign, you probably think that it is a functional search engine like other reputable search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. However, sooner or later, i.search.metacrawler.com turns out to be an inferior provider as a result. No matter when you do some searching on it, it keeps redirecting all your search results to unwanted websites, which show nothing relevant to your search questions. In this way, it can transfer more traffic to its domain, so that the creators can gain some money.

Moreover, i.search.metacrawler.com will display many ads on the screen and change your homepage without asking your permission. Therefore, this virus can make you really depressed. So after infected by i.search.metacrawler.com, you ought to remove it as fast as possible to get back your homepage.

How to Remove Search.metacrawler.com virus manually?

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\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.metacrawler.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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