Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Get Rid of Do Searches Redirect Virus



Is Do Searches a virus?

Do Searches has been identified as a dangerous browser hijacker virus, which has the ability to modify your default settings and causes hijacking. If your computer becomes its target, you will be mad by it. As soon as this vicious virus infects your vulnerable system successfully, it will modify your browsers settings without asking permission. In this way, it can redirect your browsers, such as Google, Yahoo, to Do Searches and you won’t expect to search the accurate information with your search engine. Besides, every time you surf the Internet, this horrendous virus also redirects your websites to other unknown pages, which contain many other destructive infections, including Trojan horse, rogue, worms and so on. Meanwhile, a large number of ads will keep popping up on your screen, which is hard to close anyway. Apart from those annoying symptoms, Do Searches must be responsible for the poor performance of the computer. For example, it decreases the speed of system operation. What’s worse, this virus is capable of stealing your personal information and authorizing hacker to control your computer remotely. All in all, Do Searches is an evil, which should be removed immediately.





How to Remove Do Searches virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0
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.

%AppData%[malware program name]
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\

Be known that Do Searches 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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