Sunday, November 24, 2013

Remove Wisersearch.com Virus from Chrome/IE/Firefox



Is Wisersearch.com a virus?

Wisersearch.com is reported to be a browser redirect virus, which is able to bring you an unpleasant surfing experience. In most cases, this virus can attack your PC without any notice, because it always conceals itself in some suspicious freeware and shareware, by which it can come into the system when you download the infected programs. That is to say, it is a piece of cake for Wisersearch.com to break into your system.

Once it is inside the PC, it will quickly modify your browser’s default settings for the purpose of redirecting you to vicious websites, which always contain lots of malicious malware. By changing the settings, it also can substitute the home page with Wisersearch.com. By then, no matter how many times you try to get back the favorite home page by resetting the browser items, you will be in vain without doubt.

Moreover, this virus is so stubborn that it uses rootkit technology to root deep in the system, so as to escape the detection of your antivirus program and perform malicious activities on the background. By the way, you may be annoyed by a large number of bogus ads that are displayed by Wisersearch.com. To sum up, this virus is a risk to PC. It is suggested that you should remove it as soon as possible.
  




How to Remove Wisersearch.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\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 Wisersearch.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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