Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Get Rid of Mysearch.Avg.com Virus



Is Mysearch.Avg.com a virus?

Mysearch.Avg.com is certified as a dangerous web hijacker virus, whose outer appearance looks like a decent search engine but turns out to be a fake and inferior search provider. Once you install this virus into the system without notice, you should remove it as soon as it is found by your antivirus program. That’s because it can perform many annoying and malicious activities to corrupt your machine. To begin with, Mysearch.Avg.com will take over the browser by modifying some default settings of the browser.

Once this modification is completed, you will always come across hijacking when use the browser. No matter what kind of browser you are using, the result will be the same. Moreover, Mysearch.Avg.com will replace the former search engine without your approval. If you are misled by its appearance and use it as a functional search engine, you will meet some problems later. Specifically, when you search for some information with this fake search provider, you will see that it just provides you with some websites with lots of ads rather than the information that you want. Besides, Mysearch.Avg.com can install some additional programs onto your system to perform malicious activities. By then, the system operation will be slowed down as a result. In such situation, you need to get rid of Mysearch.Avg.com as quickly as you can.



How to Remove Mysearch.Avg.com virus manually?

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

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Mysearch.Avg.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 Mysearch.Avg.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 Mysearch.Avg.com 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.

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\

Be known that Mysearch.Avg.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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