Hijacked by Searchwebresults.com Virus? Searchwebresults Redirect Virus Removal Tips

Is your favorite browser suddenly not working properly? Even your homepage has been changed to unfamiliar one? Cannot have the previous homepage back even if you have reset it? Does this Searchwebresults.com page forcibly show up with lots of annoying ads? How can we get rid of it completely?

Searchwebresults Browser Hijacker Description:

Searchwebresults.com is categorized as a browser hijacker that appears on your computer and brings you constant troubles. Once one of your browsers has been infected by it, it will keep redirecting you to unwanted websites. That’s why it’s also called as a browser redirect virus. With a deceitful yet common appearance, Searchwebresults.com virus is pretending itself as a search engine which provides lots of online contents. Do not trust the results and links given by it! They are actually sponsored by cyber hackers!

There are chances to be infected with Searchwebresults.com browser hijacker. This unwanted website can be widely spread on the Internet. Visiting websites that contain pornographic or gambling contents, receiving spam emails or downloading fake nasty applications will all lead to this infection. All the non-behaved online activities could lead to more infections even if you have the best antivirus software to protect your computer from all the cyber threats. If you proceed your online activities with this Searchwebresults.com browser hijacker, you will get a lot of annoying pop ups. There are numerous viruses, bugs, malware and ransomware like the Department of Justice virus hidden in the fake searching results. Once you land on there, viruses will be automatically allowed to get into your system.

Here’s a screen-shot of this unwanted Searchwebresults.com browser redirect virus:

The Dangers of Searchwebresults Browser Hijacker:

1. It can change your browser and the overall Internet default settings without your approval;
2. It can turn your computer to run slowly and pose sudden death;
3. There will be tremendous ads popping up your computer screen;
4. It will bring more viruses and ransomware to your computer without permission;
5. It will allow remote hackers to enter your computer and collect all your valuable information to make illegal benefits;

A Step-by-step Manual Removal Guide:

Since your antivirus program cannot deal with this Searchwebresults.com browser redirect virus successfully, you will need to manually delete it by following these steps given as below. And in case any mistakes might happen during the process, please spend some time on making a backup before getting started:

1. Reboot your infected computer and keep pressing F8 key before Windows start-up screen shows; next use the arrow keys to select “Safe Mode with Networking” and press E/Enter;

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del on your keyboard to open the Windows Task Manager and then scroll down to End process [Searchwebresults.com];

3. Open Folder Options from Control Panel, then click View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended);

4. Press Windows+R keys to open Run and type in regedit to search;

5. Find out and delete all these associating files:
%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\Searchwebresults.com.lnk

6. Find out and remove all these associating registry entries:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{rnd}.exe”

7. Reboot the computer to normal mode when the above steps are done.

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Summary

Annoyed by this Searchwebresults.com browser redirect virus a lot? Cannot log on Facebook or whatever other web sites you want to go? Suffered enough from the redirection? It is understandable that people who get infected by this browser hijacker should feel upset. Do you still search online for a best antivirus program to protect your computer from all the cyber threats? Well, no need to. All the authorized antivirus tools work well. But this kind of redirect virus is specially created and designed by hackers so it can bypass most antivirus protection. To be honest, there isn’t an tool that can deal with all the viruses including the regular ones and specially nasty ones. Will reinstall another browser help? You may wonder. The fact is, this Searchwebresults.com virus does not just stay on one browser or two. Once it’s inside, it’s already changed certain settings and dropped malicious codes inside the system. They could be hidden anywhere! So, to completely get rid of this Searchwebresults.com browser hijacker, the most effective way should be manual removal. By going into registry entries and program files to define and delete infected files, we will be able to fully remove this virus out!

Note: Still cannot get rid of this Searchwebresults.com browser redirect virus successfully by the above instructions? Being afraid of losing more personal information to remote hackers? To save your computer in time, please contact YooCare 24/7 Online Expert for a fast and overall help.

Published by on October 10, 2012 12:51 pm, last updated on June 7, 2013 7:29 am