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