Friday, November 8, 2013

Get Rid of Axisearch.com Redirect Virus


Is Axisearch.com a virus?

Axisearch.com is identified as a malicious redirect virus, which can be distributed via free downloads, suspicious websites, and spam emails. Once you install this dangerous program onto your PC, you will get to know how annoying it is. To begin with, it affects all kinds of browsers that you have installed, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer. By then, you will always see that the browser is hijacked to Axisearch.com without asking permission. Moreover, the homepage is replaced by this fake website as well. And every time you try to change it back to the former one, it just works for a little while. Generally, Axisearch.com will be likely to pretend to be a reliable search engine like Bing, Yahoo, and Google. So many PC users are deceived by its appearance and do some searching on this malicious website. However, once you surf on this website, this redirect virus will be able to record your search questions for other malicious purpose. What’ more, if you pay enough attention to the search results that are sponsored by Axisearch.com, you will find that those results are not related to what you are searching for. Hence, this redirect virus is much more annoying than you think. All you should do now is to get rid of Axisearch.com from the system to stop the redirections.


 



How to Remove Axisearch.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Axisearch.com Browser Hijacker]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random


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

%Temp%\[Random Name].dll
%System32%\[Random Name].dll
 

Be known that Axisearch.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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