Safesear.ch redirect- How To Remove

Why is my Firefox homepage being replaced by a site named Safesear.cn ? Is it a legitimate search provider? How can I get my original homepage back? It is redirecting my webpage to its domain constantly and the same thing is happening to my Chrome with a different site. I don’t want to use this Safesear.ch redirect but when I changed Firefox settings and re-open it, this site comes back! I would appreciate any help in stopping it because it makes me angry!

Details of Safesear.ch redirect:

Safesear.ch redirect is a doubtful online search system website that may seem to be a genuine and trustworthy search provider because it owns the similar interface like Google, however, this is a spam search engine that displays advertisements more than trusted results. This website is closely related to browser hijackers and adware which can alter the search page of your browsers on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome and then keep redirecting users to its own page. That is to say, if your browser has been hijacked by Safesear.ch redirect, you will be forced to visit this bogus search page constantly.

Sometimes Safesear.ch comes up automatically as a new tab as soon as you open your browser, or it could appear while you are watching a video or playing online games. Despite of its appearance, you need to understand Safesear.ch is not a helpful and safe website. You cannot use its own search to be your default search engine because search results displayed and sponsored link provided may keep making you get diverted to others misleading and malicious websites that display annoying pop-up ads on the screen of the compromised PC. Additionally, this hijacker may install many unwanted browser add-ons on your web browser along with vicious toolbars without your permission. It is extremely annoying if Safesear.ch redirect automatically loads each time you open your web browser. Though it won’t like a rogue program or ransomware to disable your programs or lock your computer, it still can be the potential threat to compromise your computer because it can add tracing cookies to your browser which help hackers to tracks user’s web browsing habits, record any addresses of visited sites and then send those collected data to a remote server. Dealing with issue like removing browser hijacker is not an easy way. If you cannot find a tool to remove it, manual way should be a wise choice.

Screen Shot of the Redirect :

Symptoms of Infection:

1. Your computer performs slower and slower.

2. You need to wait for a long time while opening a webpage and your browser runs much slower than before.

3. You are always redirected to some malicious websites.

4. The harmful redirect also causes poor Internet connection and system crash frequently.

5. You will get many advertisement windows when you are using the Internet.

Manual Removal Guides :

Safesear.ch redirect is a high-risk browser hijacker which will change the homepage and browser settings, and redirect your web search results to random sites containing lots of illegal advertisements, even Trojan, rootkit or other malware virus. Sometimes the antivirus software cannot identify the computer threat accurately and timely or remove it permanently. Therefore, manual removal is the best choice to uninstall it completely from your computer. Users can follow the manual guide here to have this virus removed instantly.

1. Clean cookies

* Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options →the General tab, Delete the Cookies button can be directly seen in IE6, IE7 is to click the Delete Browsing History button then tick Cookies and click Delete.

* Firefox:Tools → Options → Privacy → Remove Individual Cookies → Delete corresponding cookies in the cookies showing box.

* Opera:Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Cookies →Delete corresponding cookies in Management Cookies.
2. Clean add-ons and extensions

* Internet Explorer:

(1). Click Start, type: Manage browser add-ons

(2). Hit Enter on your keyboard

(3). Click Manage add-ons and disable all the suspicious add-ons.

* Firefox:

（1）. Click the Firefox menu and click Add-ons

(2). Click Extensions, select the related browser add-ons and click Disable.

* Google Chrome:

(1). Click the Customize and Control menu button →Tools→ click Extensions

(2). Select the related Extension and click Disable.

3. Show Hidden Files

(1). Click on the Start button and then on Control Panel

(2). Click on the Appearance and Personalization link

(3). Click on the Folder Options link

(4). Click on the View tab in the Folder Options window

(5). Choose the Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category

(6). Click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.

4. Delete Virus Files

(1). Delete the related registry entries through Registry Edit

Guides to open registry editor: Click “Start” menu, hit “Run”, then type “regedit”, click “OK”

(2). Find out and remove the associated files of this browser hijacker virus.

Video Shows You How to Safely Modify Windows Registry Editor:

Summary

According to recent investigation, we have categorized Safesear.ch redirect into one of the browser bandit which is made by its creators to infected computer for benefits. Having such a redirect in your PC means that your Internet Explorer are forced to visit a specific website to make it more popular than other similar site to earn money for the founder of a business by parasitic breaking loaded way including hijacking browser home page, error pages, or search provider. The people responsible for creating Safesear.ch redirect are also good at using browser hijacker malware to force inexperienced computer users to use various low quality search engine repeatedly so that they can use this artificial traffic to boost affiliate payments and promote online content. Basically, a redirect virus comes together with freeware applications that you download from the Internet by yourself. Therefore, you should pay attention on everything you attempt to download from the Internet and make sure they come from the trusted resources. And the most important thing is to get rid of Safesear.ch as quickly as possible in case it brings other viruses to your computer.

If you are not familiar with manual removal solution, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.

Published by & last updated on October 11, 2013 12:05 pm