Monday, August 12, 2013

Delete Fake Wsearch Virus



Is Fake Wsearch a virus?

Fake Wsearch is related to a kind of browser hijacker infection, which is able to hijack almost every website that you tend to visit. In general, Fake Wsearch is likely to impersonate itself as a functional search engine, which pretends to help you search for something more easily. However, in reality, Fake Wsearch is a fake search engine and it cannot provide any reliable search results. Not like other popular search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo), Fake Wsearch will redirect your entire search engine to its domain, which is related to the benefit of cyber criminals. Normally, you may get this pest inside your system after download some bundled software from the Internet. Once Fake Wsearch is inside your PC, it will change the browser settings first, through which this pest can turn the browser into its slave. Once Fake Wsearch achieves this goal, your browser will perform poorly. For example, when you try to open the browser, it will be hijacked suddenly without asking permission. Besides, if you want to open a new tab, you will be redirected as well. What’s more, some unknown advertisements will keep on popping up to interrupt your browsing activities all the time. Therefore, what you should do now is to delete Fake Wsearch without hesitation.


How to Remove Fake Wsearch virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\365KDFSHSFD06Y435 “(Default)”=”1?

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

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_64\Desktop.ini
C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\Desktop.ini

Be known that Fake Wsearch 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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