Get Rid of Brass Search Virus Step by Step

How to Remove Brass Search Browser Hijacker Step by Step

Brass Search attacks your browsers? And it displays lots of annoying ads for you? Lots of unwanted programs are installed on your PC without approval? How to get rid of Brass Search and make the browsers work properly again?

What is Brass Search?

Brass Search is a bogus search engine that should not be trusted. This virus is a browser hijacker which is distributed via spam e-mail attachments and freeware installation packages. After invasion, Brass Search will quickly begin its unauthorized activities, and then change your browsing process to a nightmare.

To begin with, Brass Search replaces the start page and default search provider. You can’t restore the previous settings because the virus has already altered registry entries and compromised the entire system. Each time you start up your PC, Brass Search will activate itself automatically. The infected machine runs slower and slower, and all kinds of malfunctions occur. BSOD, freezes, Internet connection failure and crashes become so frequent. Moreover, in order to promote certain fraudulent products, Brass Search also generates numerous annoying pop-up advertisements. You need to bear in mind that no matter how attractive those ads appear, they are all unreliable and in most cases, they not only connect to phishing websites, but also contain additional malware like BaseFlash virus.

In addition, when you do online searches, Brass Search will reroute you to ads-related websites which has little relation to your search queries. So it is very difficult for you to get expected information. Last but not the least, the worst thing is that Brass Search monitors all your browsing activities so as to steal confidential data like bank accounts, identities, passwords, credit card details and e-mail address. Therefore, apart from severe PC malfunctions, you may encounter financial losses, privacy exposure and other terrible results.

All in all, for the good of yourself, you should get rid of Brass Search virus as soon as possible.

Brass Search is really hazardous

a.       Brass Search virus get installed on your PC via illegal way

b.      Brass Search virus changes your start page and you can’t restore it

c.       Brass Search virus alters some default settings of the system

d.      Brass Search virus downloads dangerous malware onto the PC

e.       Brass Search virus keeps track of your Internet activities

The reason why your security tool cannot detect Brass Search

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And Brass Search 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 Brass Search manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of Brass Search Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

Open the control panel>find add or remove programs>uninstall Brass Search

Step2. Delete all add-ons about Brass Search 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 Brass Search

%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe

Step4. Remove Brass Search’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[random]

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 Brass Search.