Remove Centrix Search Redirect Virus Efficiently

Is Centrix Search a virus?

Centrix Search is a bogus search engine that pretends to help you search for some information. However, as a matter of fact, it has been identified as a hijacker infection, which is used by cyber criminals to make a profit. Once Centrix Search sneaks into your PC, it will bring much damage to your system. First of all, it will alter your browser settings and control it. As a result, no matter when you open your browser, this hijacker will take you to undesired websites, and if you browser on them, you will be infected by more dangerous viruses. That’s because viruses are likely to hide in some suspicious websites. So if you are browsing on theses websites, destructive viruses will catch a chance to invade your system. Moreover, your search results will not be able to satisfy your search queries, for that all the result pages are redirected other unknown sites, no matter how many times you try. Besides, Centrix Search may induce more infections to invade your system, such as worms, ransomware, and Trojan horse. That is to say, your machine will encounter more trouble in the future. All in all, if you want to stop pop-up ads and safeguard your machine, you should remove Centrix Search immediately.

How to Remove Centrix Search virus manually?

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

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{872B5B88-9DB5-4310-BDD0-AC189557E5F5}

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternetExplorerToolbar “[trojan name]”

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

%UserProfile%\Start Menu \ Centrix Search Redirect Virus \Help. lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu \ Centrix Search Redirect Virus \Registration. lnk

Be known that Centrix Search 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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