Tuesday, March 11, 2014

How to Remove Looksafesearch.com Browser Hijacker Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox



Looksafesearch.com always shows up on your browser and blocks you from visiting other websites? Looksafesearch.com can’t be removed from your PC? Don’t worry. You come to the right place. This post will show you how to remove this vicious site.

What is Looksafesearch.com? 

Looksafesearch.com is a browser hijacker that comes bundled with dubious free resources and various computer viruses. When you download some free applications from unknown websites, your computer will get the installation of this browser hijacker. If you want to avoid this unwanted program, you need to pay attention to your activities on the Internet. It is reported that Looksafesearch.com can enter your PC with the help of pop-up ads and spam email attachments.

Once inside, your browser settings including homepage and search engine are changed by Looksafesearch.com. And you can not set them back again. Every time you open your browser, this malicious browser hijacker shows up. Unluckily, your browser activities are interrupted. If you make searches on this vicious webpage, your searching keywords will be gathered without your awareness. Subsequently, Looksafesearch.com shows you a lot of irrelevant search results to you. Once you click on them, you will be redirected to unknown websites that contain numerous ads. The intention of this virus is to collect network traffic for third parties. In order to help sponsors collect lucrative information, this nasty browser hijacker tracks your browser histories.

Provided that you remove Looksafesearch.com from your browser with delay, your computer performance will be slowed down. Frequently, this browser hijacker installs many unwanted programs onto your machine so as to reduce loads of available system resources. Besides, it is possible that your PC would be infected with worms, Trojan horses and other viruses. As mentioned above, Looksafesearch.com is a high risk. Thus, you should get rid of it as early as possible.

Manually Remove Looksafesearch.com Browser Hijacker Virus 

Strictly speaking, a number of antivirus programs don’t classify Looksafesearch.com as a virus. For this reason this browser hijacker can’t be removed by your antivirus program. The only way to remove this computer parasite is that you utilize manual removal method. If you have no idea how to get rid of it, please follow the guide below.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manager. Disable the process of Looksafesearch.com.


Step 2: Find out all hidden files of Bittorrent.inspsearch.com. Go to Control Panel from Start Menu; Type Folder Option in Search Bar; Check Show hidden files and folders and deselect the option of Hide protected operating system files in View tab and then click on OK


C:\program files
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\

Step 3: Find out and remove registries of Looksafesearch.com. Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Search_URL"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes "DefaultScope" = ""

Step 4: Uninstall Looksafesearch.com from your computer. Open Start Menu and go to Control Panel. And click Programs and Features, then remove suspicious programs.

 



Step 5: Remove additional unwanted programs from your browser

For Google Chrome

1. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions by clicking Bin button.


2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change button to reset your homepage.



For Mozilla Firefox
 
1. Click Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time to open Add-ons page > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

2. Click the Firefox button > Help > Troubleshooting Information > click on Reset Firefox button.



For Internet Explorer

1. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.


2.  Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.