Remove SafeFinder Vrius Step by Step

Instruction to Remove SafeFinder Virus Quickly & Completely

SafeFinder displays many annoying ads on your browser? It changes your browser default settings without approval? Want to restore your web browser and remove SafeFinder? Keep reading.

The definition of SafeFinder

SafeFinder is a pesky adware which is designed by cyber criminals to display all kinds of commercial ads and trigger constant redirections with the purpose of obtaining illegitimate interests. From the look of SafeFinder, users are usually deceived into thinking that it is a regular search engine which can provide them with helpful information that they want just like Google, Bing and Yahoo. In fact, SafeFinder can only disturb online activities and corrupt the infected machine. Once SafeFinder gets inside your computer, it will modify the default settings of your web browser and DNS to carry out malicious activities. Your screen will be flooded by a variety of promotion ads which continuously pop up and seduce you with nice pictures and attractive prices.

The nasty actions of SafeFinder are also including hijacking your search results to irrelevant websites, linking your webpages to unknown domains. You cannot get reliable search results and browse the webpages that you are interested in because of the existence of this virus. Besides, SafeFinder has the ability to capture your sensitive data online and send these confidential information to remote hackers, which violates your privacy. Generally speaking, SafeFinder is a harmful virus which you should eliminate from your machine once it is discovered.

The dangers of SafeFinder virus:

a.       SafeFinder virus will attack your browser badly.

b.      SafeFinder virus will modify some critical browser settings.

c.       SafeFinder virus will add its registry keys to your system.

d.      SafeFinder virus will redirect all desired websites to unwanted pages.

e.       SafeFinder virus is able to slow down Internet speed.

If you keep this infection in your system for a long time, your PC will get more severe damage. You want to remove it right now? What is the most effective way to delete it from the browser? In fact, there are two ways to get rid of such dangerous infection. The first one is manual removal. The second one is automatic removal. Both of them are available.

Solution one: How to remove SafeFinder virus manually?

Step 1: resetting DNS settings

1.      Open your Control Panel

2.      Choose “View network status and task” in “Network and Internet”

3.      Find Network and Sharing Center and click “Chang adapter settings”

4.      Select the corresponded network adapter as you are using and click “Properties”

5.      Select “Internet Protocol Verrion4(TCP/IPV4)

6.      Choose “Use the following DNS server addresses:”

7.      Set “ preferred DNS server” to 8.8.8.8

Step2: check out all vicious files and delete all of them

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\SafeFinder\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\SafeFinder\Uninstall SafeFinder.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\SafeFinder\SafeFinder.lnk

Step3: Delete all registries keys that are related to SafeFinder

Go to the Start Menu at the bottom left of your screen>click “run”>type “regedit” in the box>select and delete all the following registry values

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Use FormSuggest” = ‘yes’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced “Hidden” = ’0′

Step4: Stop all suspicious programs running through Manage Task( delete + alt + ctrl)

Solution two: How to remove SafeFinder automatically?

As you know, the registry editor is a very important place. So once you delete the wrong files, many other system errors will be triggered. Thus, an automatic way is more efficient and safer. You can download a removal tool here to remove SafeFinder.