Are you looking for a solution to stop the crazy redirection to Searchult.com now? Is your homepage taken over by this Searchult? When you surf on the Internet, are there lots of pop-up ads keep bothering you? Watch out! This is a browser hijacker that can change your default homepage and search engine without your permission. It also gives you a bunch of pop-ups whenever you are online. Most computer users find it annoying but cannot get rid of it even though they have tried a lot of security tools. If you are facing to the same situation, please follow the manual removal guide below to remove this unwanted thing immediately.
Searchult.com (also called Searchult Search) is a bogus search page associated with browser hijacker, adware or PUP (as known as potentially unwanted program) that often installs from unsafe freeware, shareware or advertising-supported programs such as various browser add-ons or toolbars. Most users have no idea how and when this sneaky hijacker accessed their computers until they found it hard to control. Once the computer is attacked, everything on the PC will be completely screwed up. This hijacker is capable of modifying default search engine, changing your homepage, displaying unwanted pop-up ads and even distributing other malware. And the worse thing is that your antivirus program will never notice its existence, therefore even though you have installed the most advanced security products, they still have no ability to catch this redirect malware. It is so tricky and nasty, isn’t it?
Searchult.com redirect has a deceitful appearance; it may look like Google Search or Bing Search, with a search box in the middle of its page. However, the difference between Searchult Search and other legitimate search engines is that Searchult.com redirect will show you different ads at the bottom of its page. In addition, when you perform a search, instead of showing you the information you want, you will get a lot of sponsored ads. Any clicks on these ads will increase the risk of your computer security because it may install potentially unwanted programs, rogue programs or other Trojan viruses to your computer immediately. Now this hijacker is known to take over all of your web browsers installed including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome as well as Safari. Please note that this is a useless search engine that only displays endless spam results and sponsored ads. Links promoted by this search engine might redirect you to websites that can be compromised. In this way, you may get more and more viruses in your computer. This hijacker also helps install unwanted browser extensions, toolbars and browser plugins to your system. It can make everything on your computer slow and disorder. iStartSurf hijacker forces users to use its fake search engine again and again because they want to boost payments from the artificial traffic. It may even collect your search content, track your browsing habits and steal your personal information. Therefore, in order to keep your computer safe, you have to get rid of iStartSurf.com pop-up without any delay. For no reason should you keep it on the compromised computer. If you find your browser has been taken over by Searchult.com, you have to remove it instantly to avoid further damages.
If you open your browser window (includes IE, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome etc.) and notice immediately that your home page has been changed to a page you do not recognize, then your browser may have been hijacked by a virus. For this type of hijack virus, it can change your homepage to Searchult.com without your permission. Other malicious activities can be shown on your computer after hijacked are listed below:
1. It can not only change your web pages, but also alter other settings to add toolbars, pop-up advertisements, and bookmarks that you did not create.
2. It can modify the homepage settings of your web browser, more commonly by reducing your internet security options. And the worse thing is it prevents you from changing them back.
3. New toolbars or Favorites are installed that give you icons and links to web pages that you don’t want.
4. It may block you from visiting certain website you’d like to visit and show an error page instead.
5. It will display constant pop-up ads, sometimes in such large amounts that you are not able to close neither the ads nor the browser.
Searchult.com pop-up hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Since this tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users delete all the cookies before a complete removal.
Google Chrome:
Click on the “Tools” menu and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies” button
2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.
Once Searchult.com pop-up is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system’s CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window：
3. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
4. Remove all the malicious files related to Searchult.com hijacker manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Searchult.com is categorized as browser hijacker that has a serious effect on the functionality of our computers and on the safety of your data, your bank accounts and even your identities. It enters your computer without your permission, and then it performs tons of malicious activities on your machine especially for interrupting your browsing sessions. If you get pop-ups or a new tab opened from Searchult.com automatically, or your homepage is suddenly changed to this web page, then your computer must be attacked by browser hijacker malware now. Don’t take it for granted for thinking this is just a small issue and can be ignored. A hijacker threat can track user’s web browsing habits, record addresses of visited sites and send collected data to a remote server. Moreover, it degrades overall web browser stability and performance. Hence, users had better find and remove all the related add-ons in order to stop the constant redirection to Searchult.com and make sure computer is running in a safe network environment.
Note: If you are not a computer expert and have no idea how to perform the removal, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.
Published by on August 16, 2014 2:28 pm, last updated on September 22, 2014 10:35 am
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