Get Rid of/Remove Search Safer Pop-up Virus &Stop Redirect

Search Safer installs many unused icons on your PC? It also redirects you to unwanted webpages and displays many commercial ads for you? If you want to remove this unwanted program, you should read this post carefully and delete it step by step.

Description of Search Safer

Search Safer is defined as a very risky and stubborn adware virus, which often uses illegal ways to penetrate into the target computers without users’ notice. For instance, when you browse on some popular websites that have been hacked already, Search Safer will easily infect your system. Besides, this virus can be distributed by some drive-by downloads, so you should be careful when download something from the Internet.
Once Search Safer is installed, it can screw up the browser and turn your browsing activities into messes. To begin with, it claims that it can help you block your access to malicious websites. However, it just redirects you to its domain so as to increase traffic to earn benefit. Moreover, Search Safer will compromise the browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. Thus, when you use the browser, you will be always taken to Search Safer or other malicious sites, which are used to promoted destructive infections. Once you are forced to visit those websites, the machine will get infected by more infections. To sum up, Search Safer is not a safe program, which must be removed immediately when it is detected.

Screenshot of Search Safer

Annoyances that are caused by Search Safer:

1.Search Safer virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.Search Safer virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove Search Safer virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of Search Safer from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.

2.Display all hidden files so as to remove Search Safer's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel

②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options

③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.

Then you will see the following Screenshot:

Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry