Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Get Rid of Onlinewebsearch.com Virus



Is Onlinewebsearch.com a virus?

Onlinewebsearch.com is a web hijacker virus, which can redirect your wanted websites to its malicious websites frequently. At first sight, you will consider Onlinewebsearch.com as a normal website, which does no harm to the computer. But the truth is that it will mess up the browser and even the whole system sooner or later. Commonly, this virus is able to break into your PC when you visit vicious websites, download unsafe programs, or click on strange links. After it is inside, it produces many problems. To begin with, Onlinewebsearch.com changes the browser settings and hijacks the browser to Onlinewebsearch.com. Then, the search engine will be affected severely, which often lets you down when you search for something online. Moreover, this virus probably forces you to download many other dangerous programs onto the machine, such as its malicious toolbar. Onlinewebsearch.com also slows down the speed of the browser, so you have to spend more time on opening a website. To sum up, it is very dangerous to install Onlinewebsearch.com on the computer. If you have installed it, you should delete it immediately.






How to Remove Onlinewebsearch.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe
 


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

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe

 

Be known that Onlinewebsearch.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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