Remove Search.findwide.com Virus Step by Step

Is Search.findwide.com a virus?

Search.findwide.com is an annoying browser hijacker which modifies your bowser settings and replaces your search engine casually. Usually, it is spread to your computer through free applications downloaded from unsafe websites. When you choose the default installation methods of these programs that you download, this virus will follow them and come into your machine. So it is wise to choose custom installation. And you should read each installation step carefully and pay more attention to what options you should pick up, in order to prevent this pest from sneaking into your system.

Once it is actually running in your system, it will cause the replacement of your home page, and implement Search.findwide.com.com as your default search engine. It will affect the normal operation of your Web browser deliberately. For example, when you are visiting the website that you frequent or do a keyword search, this virus will keep popping up all sorts of commodity advertisements on the screen, and collect your search terms and add various sponsored links to the search results.

Recently, we find that vShare is bound with Search.findwide.com. So, this virus is able to come into the system with vShare. When users attempt to remove this virus by uninstalling vShare, however, Search.findwide.com still exists on their computer after removing vShare. Many users are upset about it. Thus, it’s suggested to use manual method to ensure a complete deletion.

How to Remove Search.findwide.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Search.findwide.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.findwide.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.findwide.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.findwide.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “ConsentPromptBehaviorUser” = 0

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\random

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

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ Search.findwide.com \

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat

Be known that Search.findwide.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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