Remove Search.softonic.com Redirect Virus from Web Browser

Instruction to Remove Search.softonic.com Virus Quickly & Completely

Search.softonic.com attacks your homepage? Feeling hard to remove it from your web browser? Getting redirected repeatedly when surfing the Internet? How to Remove Search.softonic.com virus completely from IE/Firefox/Chrome?

The definition of Search.softonic.com browser hijacker

Although it looks similar to Google, Search.softonic.com is a malicious browser hijacker virus. In order to gain financial benefits, PC hackers create Search.softonic.com to force you to visit promoted websites. Normally, Search.softonic.com is bundled with freeware downloaded from unreliable resources as a browser toolbar. Hence, if you don’t read the EULA carefully, you are like to install its toolbar by accident.

Once the virus gets into your system, it will bring lots of troubles to you. First of all, it controls your web browsers through altering related system settings. As a result, your homepage and search engine are changed to Search.softonic.com, and you can’t recover the former settings. Secondly, you will suffer from frequent redirection when you click a new link or try to search information via this fake search engine. Search.softonic.com can’t provide anything useful for you but a lot of advertisement websites. And you have to try many times to reach the wanted domains. Thirdly, there are numerous pop-up advertisements appearing on your screen, because the virus modifies the Windows registry. Last but not the least, since you installed Search.softonic.com, your computer runs extremely slow and has poor system performance. Therefore, you must bear in mind that Search.softonic.com is a dangerous threat, which should be eliminated immediately.

The dangers of Search.softonic.com virus:

a.       Search.softonic.com virus will record your browsing habits.

b.      Search.softonic.com virus will change homepage and search engine.

c.       Search.softonic.com virus will corrupt system files and entries.

d.      Search.softonic.com virus will redirect every new tab to its websites.

e.       Search.softonic.com virus can consume lots of system resources and degrade the system performance.

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 Search.softonic.com 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

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

Step3: Delete all registries keys that are related to Search.softonic.com

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\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

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

Solution two: How to remove Search.softonic.com 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 this annoying pest.