How to Remove Searchnu.com Completely
My homepage is redirected to Searchnu.com automatically every time I
start the browser and I can¡¯t get my Google back. Even if I modify the homepage
setting, I fail to change the default homepage and find that some pop-ups saying
that my computer needs to optimize and suggests me to download certain products
often occur on my computer screen. This is really annoying. My computer is
running Windows 7 64 bits and I search things with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
How should I solve this problem? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Description of Searchnu.com
Searchnu.com is a website with bad reputation
associated with browser hijacker and adware. The web page seems to feature
search service and it has a convincing appearance because of the icons of
Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter on it. Hence, don¡¯ believe in it for it is exploited
by cyber hackers to generate traffic and promote specific products which may
severely decrease the system performance. If users are fooled to do so, the
program will run a fake scan to system and reports that the computer is
suffering from tons of virus infections. When you type a keyword into the search
box and press Enter, you will receive a lot of advertisements and sponsored
links in the search results. And after this infection, you will find it hard to
access the websites you want to visit, for the redirect virus will keep redirect
your browsers to its own page or other unknown websites. Some pop-up
advertisements asking you to download unknown programs, update plug-ins or scan
and optimize your computer performance with some products and so on will
frequently show up. If you unwarily click on the ads, the unnecessary programs
or malware can be installed on your PC.
Searchnu.com hijacker changes your default search engine, corrupts your
Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and even affects your
system and programs. More seriously, it slows down the computer performance and
attach undesirable plug-in, add-on, toolbar onto the browser without asking
user¡¯s permission firstly. If you have failed to log on the account of Yahoo
mail, Facebook, the browser may have been seriously corrupted. Sometimes the
program will show the fake fixing result to make users believe it has done a
good job in cleaning viruses. However, don¡¯t believe the fraud it set up, try
to remove the program and don¡¯t get in touch with this evil website hijacker
any more.
To save trouble, you need to remove Searchnu.com as soon as possible.
You can follow the step to step instruction below to efficiently remove this
virus right now:
Undesirable Impacts of Searchnu.com Infection
1. Get loaded on the browser automatically without requiring user¡¯s
permission, modify browser settings to turn it to be a promotion tool for
specified products and prevent you from reverting them.
2. Your work will be interrupted by the constant pop-ups and unwanted
websites.
3. Other malware would be dropped into your computer when you click on
the unwelcome ads.
4. A bunch of commercial ads will display on your screen and you are
redirected to unwanted website.
5. Private information and commercial related account data, such as
personal identifiable information, online bank account as well as credit card
account details, may be silently gathered and transferred to a remote third-
party server monitored by cyber hackers.
Guide to Manually Remove Searchnu.com Redirect Virus
Since the manual removal is much more complicated than automatic way
such as using an automatic removal tool, inexperienced users are not suggested
to use. Users who are not very familiar with computer mechanism should be
careful when employing manual method. The following are the steps to manually
remove Searchnu.com redirect virus (Please be very careful during the removal
process, especially when dealing with the files and registry entries):
Step 1: Remove the redirect virus related programs.1. Click Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Click on Uninstall a program under the Programs category.
3. In the programs list find out any suspicious programs, and then click on the Uninstall.
4. Follow the wizard to accomplish the removal.
Step 2: Remove all unwanted extensions from the browsers.
Internet Explorer
1. Start the Internet Explorer, click on Tools, and select Manage Add-ons in the drop-down list.
2. Click on Toolbars and Extensions, find out and disable the add-ons related to Searchnu.com redirect virus.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Run the Mozilla Firefox, click on Tools and choose Add-ons.
2. Click on Extensions, then select the unwanted add-ons in the list and click on Remove\Disable button.
3. Click Plugins, and remove\disable any unknown add-ons.
Google Chrome
1. Launch Google Chrome and click on the menu icon.
2. Click the Tools in the list then select Extensions.
3. Click on Extensions, then find out the redirect virus related add-ons and delete them.
Step 3: Remove all malicious files and registry entries.
1. In the local disk C, local the following folders:
%Temp%\
%Program Files%\
%UserProfile%\Desktop\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\
%Document and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\
2. In the above folders, find out and remove any malicious files.
3. Open the registry editor by following the steps: click Start menu, type ¡°regedit¡± into the search box, and click ¡°regedit.exe¡± from the results list.
4. In the registry editor, find out and delete any malicious registry entries from your PC.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ¡°[RANDOM].exe¡±
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ¡°[RANDOM].exe¡±
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe
Conclusion
Searchnu.com is closely associated with an adware and browser
hijackers. Once it succeeds in loading on the workstation of the computer by the
help of dishonest ads embedding in spam email attachments and hacked websites,
it will attach unwanted add-ons, plug-ins as well as extensions to the browser.
It must be frustrating when Searchnu.com appears on the browser each time it
starts up. You fail to eliminate the web page even though you have re- install
the browser. The reason why it is so hard to delete is that it has changed
system settings and browser settings, and it also modify the Windows registry
and writes its entries into registry. To guard your private information and
financial related account from undesirable attacks, you should remove
Searchnu.com immediately.
Note: If you think manual is too complicated and may cause system
instable or other problems. Please resort to automatic way and equip your system
with a helpful removal tool to quickly and safely remove it without too much
concern.
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