Monday, November 4, 2013

Remove Search.mywebsearch.com Virus



Is Search.mywebsearch.com a virus?

Search.mywebsearch.com is identified as a vicious web hijacker virus, which is able to generate lots of commercial ads on the compromised PC. Mostly, you won’t expect to know how and when this hijacker comes into your PC, for that this virus can conceal its malicious codes into some suspicious websites or spam attachment emails. Thus, when you visit those websites or open the email without running your antivirus program, you will be infected by this virus. When Search.mywebsearch.com infects your machine, you will find that your start page on your browser is substituted by Search.mywebsearch.com, which is hard to change back to the one that you are fond of. Then, this hijacker will modify relevant settings on your system. As a result, no matter when you search for some information on the Internet, you will be redirected to other unwanted sites, which will have nothing to do with what you are searching for. Besides, Search.mywebsearch.com is always distributed by a Trojan, which can steal your important information without your knowing. To sum up, in order to prevent more serious issues, you should get rid of Search.mywebsearch.com as quickly as you can.




How to Remove Search.mywebsearch.com virus manually?

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

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

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\startpage [random site]
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{BF7380FA-E3B4-4DB2-AF3E-9D8783A45BFC}

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

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstat.log
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat
 

Be known that Search.mywebsearch.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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