Remove Search.certified-toolbar.com from IE/Chrome/Firefox

How to Remove Search.certified-toolbar.com Browser Hijacker Step by Step

Search.certified-toolbar.com attacks your browser and hijacks you to unwanted websites all the time? The homepage is replaced by this website as well? How to get rid of it from the homepage and fix redirection? This passage provides a helpful removal guide to get rid of Search.certified-toolbar.com completely, so you can follow the instruction step by step.

What is Search.certified-toolbar.com?

Search.certified-toolbar.com is another tricky and harmful browser hijacker which undoubtedly targets a variety of browsers. It is known to most computer users that Search.certified-toolbar.com is mainly propagated through unidentified and infected websites, which are created by malicious cyber hackers. Therefore, if you download any programs or open SPAM from those websites, click on any links of those sites, you will be very likely to get infected with this virus. If it infiltrates into targeted systems, it will be able to carry out a series of malicious tasks. 

Firstly, it is very easy that your browsers and search engines become its main targets. When your browsers or search engines run as usual, Search.certified-toolbar.com just messes up everything during browsing or searching by rampantly changing the default settings of your browsers and corrupting critical system parameter. During its interference, it forces you to visit its sponsored websites, in this way, it just generates high internet traffic and profits from it. For making more benefits, Search.certified-toolbar.com may be secretly used to steal important personal data and send to evildoers. To completely remove this virus and avoid unexpected losses, you should always run updated and powerful antivirus tool.

Search.certified-toolbar.com is really hazardous

a.       Search.certified-toolbar.com virus attacks the target browser badly

b.       Search.certified-toolbar.com virus alters some browser settings in secret

c.       Search.certified-toolbar.com virus displays annoying ads from time to time

d.       Search.certified-toolbar.com virus brings many hazardous malware into the system

e.       Search.certified-toolbar.com virus is good at hiding and exploiting system loopholes

The reason why your security tool cannot detect Search.certified-toolbar.com

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And Search.certified-toolbar.com should be one of the threats that are hard to remove. Commonly, it uses root kit technology to hide deep inside the system and changes its location all the time. Thus, many security tools cannot find out its location exactly, not to mention to remove it. In such situation, you should get rid of Search.certified-toolbar.com manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of Search.certified-toolbar.com Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

Open the control panel>find add or remove programs>uninstall Search.certified-toolbar.com

Step2. Delete all add-ons about Search.certified-toolbar.com from the browsers

Google Chrome

Click “customize and control”>settings>basic options>use google.com as the homepage and make Google as your search engine at “Manage Search”

Internet Explore

Click Tools>select “Manage Add-ons”>”search providers”>set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to “search results”>remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox

Click “magnifier”icon>Manage Search Engine…”>select “search results”>click the removal button

Step3. Remove all files that are associated with Search.certified-toolbar.com

%LocalAppData%\CertifiedToolbar\upgrade.png
%LocalAppData%\SimplyTech\

Step4. Remove Search.certified-toolbar.com’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL =

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command "(Default)" = " 

Attention: the manual removal guide requires you to have some knowledge about computers. If you are an inexperienced computer user, you may operate mistakenly. Every wrong step will result in system programs. So you must be careful when remove Search.certified-toolbar.com.