Thursday, August 15, 2013

Delete Search.installmac.com Virus



Is Search.installmac.com a virus?

Search.installmac.com is a kind of browser hijacker virus, which is created to perform malicious activities on the target computers. Mostly, whether you visit some suspicious websites or download bundled programs, you probably get search.installmac.com inside your PC without notice. Once this virus enters the machine, you will encounter all the time. To begin with, the browser settings will be modified without approval. Hence, every time you open the browser, you will be redirected to search.installmac.com as a result. Moreover, if you observe carefully, you will see that a new toolbar is installed on the browser slightly and you cannot uninstall it by all means. At first sight, many users may think that search.installmac.com is a normal website that does not have the ability to do any harm to the system. However, as a matter of fact, it is a really fake website that is created by the hackers to collect your browsing information. That is to say, your browsing behavior will be exposed to the bad guys. As a result, you will receive more annoying ads. All in all, search.installmac.com is quite malicious and nasty. You ought to remove this virus from your machine as soon as possible.


How to Remove Search.installmac.com virus manually?

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

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run |Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser

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

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%CommonAppData%\\.ico

Be known that Search.installmac.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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