Tuesday, May 20, 2014

How to Get Rid of Oursearching.com Virus



Having trouble removing Oursearching.com from your browser? Don't worry. This post will show you how to remove it and stop hateful redirections and pop-ups.

The Information of Oursearching.com

Oursearching.com is turned out as a malicious browser hijacker that can make chaos in different browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The browser settings including homepage and search engine will be changed once this Oursearching.com breaks into your computer. With this browser hijacker’s coming, your computer will get many unwanted and rogue programs at the same time. Gradually, lots of available system resources are taken up, which leads to a slow computer performance. And your web browser frequently gets stuck when you surf on the network. In addition to corrupting the target PC, this Oursearching.com browser hijacker also redirects you to questionable websites where you get numerous pop-up ads or porno pictures. 

The horrible thing is that these suspicious websites will automatically install malicious codes and files into your PC secretly. As soon as some system files are infected with unknown virus, blue screen of death, browser crash and other problems will be caused repeatedly. Additionally, this Oursearching.com is used by third parties to promote sponsored websites and collect network traffic. Some malicious people also keep track of your Internet traces for illegal purposes. If your credit card information and online banking login details fall into the wrong hands, you will probably suffer financial loss. As mentioned above, it is very necessary to remove Oursearching.com virus from your computer.

Oursearching.com Virus Detailed Removal Guide


Step 1: Press Ctrl+ALT+Del keys at the same time to open Task Manager. End the process of Oursearching.com.

Step 2: Remove the files of Oursearching.com. Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Then use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and un-check Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

Step 3: Delete Oursearching.com registry entries from your PC. Click start button and search for regedit to open Registry Editor.

Step4: Click Start button and select Control Panel. Then click Programs, uninstall all suspicious programs from your PC.

Step5: Reset the Settings of Browsers

After disabling all suspicious programs on your browser, you also need to reset the browser to the original state, which can make sure that this virus never comes back. Before beginning, you will lose your bookmarks and other personal information when you restore your browser.

Reset the settings of Internet Explorer

1. Open the IE, click the wrench icon and select Internet Options.
 2. Move to Advance tab, click the Reset button.
 3. Tick the Delete personal settings check-box and click Reset button.
 4. In General tab, you can add a new URL on Home page box and set it as your default homepage.

Reset the settings of Google Chrome

1. Open the Chrome, click the three stripes icon and select Settings.

2. Scroll down to the end of the configuration page, search for Show advanced settings.

3. Look at Reset browser settings button and click it.

4. Reset browser settings via clicking the reset button.

5. Scroll down the page again and look for Open a specific page or set of pages, click on their Set Pages. Another window will show up. Here you will seethe bunch of URLs under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

Reset the settings of Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Firefox, and click the Firefox button.
2. Select Help and click Troubleshooting Information.
3. Click the Reset Firefox button.

Step 6: Resetting DNS settings

1. Open your Control Panel from Start Menu, and then choose “View network status and task” in “Network and Internet”.

2. Select the option of Network and Sharing Center and click “Change adapter settings”.

3. Select the corresponded network adapter as you are using and right click to open a menu then select “Properties”.

5. Select “Internet Protocol Verrion4(TCP/IPV4), then click Properties button.

6. Choose “Use the following DNS server addresses”. Set “preferred DNS server” to 8.8.8.8.