Get Rid of Searchnu.com Virus from Firefox

Is Searchnu.com a virus?

Searchnu.com is a kind of browser hijacker, which can sneak into the compromised PC without the owner’s permission. Once this hijacker comes inside your PC, it will modify your browser settings as quickly as it can. Then you will find that your home page on your browser is replaced by searchnu.com, and your reputable search engine will be changed to searchnu.com as well. If you want to restore them when this hijacker is still in your system, you will be in vain. Moreover, this annoying hijacker will generate commercial ads on your screen and redirect all your search results to unwanted websites, which contain some ads rather than the exact information. Thus, you will be disappointed with every search result. In general, you may catch searchnu.com on your PC when downloading freeware or shareware onto the PC, or visiting suspicious websites. Besides, when you open a spam attachment email, you should be careful with it. That’s because searchnu.com may have injected its malicious onto the link before. In a word, this hijacker should be removed as soon as possible.

How to Remove Searchnu.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Searchnu.com/406

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run

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

%Windir%\sadrive32.exe

%Temp%\(random).class

%PROGRAM_FILES%\Searchnu.com/406

Be known that Searchnu.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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