Tuesday, May 27, 2014

How to Get Rid of Search Snacks Virus



What is Search Snacks Virus?

Search Snacks is an unwanted browser extension which pretends to say that it can enhance your searching experience and provide translation feature. This Search Snacks usually comes alongside some programs which you can download from the network freely. If this evil browser add-on is added to your PC, it will cause many troubles and problems. This Search Snacks will show a mass of ads when you work or study at your browser. Frequently, the ads displayed on the side of your current webpage can be marked as “Ads by Search Snacks” or “Powered by Search Snacks”. 


You’d better not click on these suspicious ads because they contain links which can take you to affiliated websites. Usually, the creators of this browser add-on can make money from these sponsored websites. The reason is that sponsors will pay them if the ranking of the sponsored websites get improved. Although this Search Snacks won’t drop various viruses to attack your PC, it will lead to a bad influence on your computer performance. It is reported that Search Snacks can install a plenty of unnecessary programs and add-ons to your computer so that it is able to take up lots of system resources. When your computer has no enough running space, it will run weirdly and slowly. To maintain your computer health, you ought to remove Search Snacks virus as soon as possible.

Guides to Uninstall Search Snacks Virus

Step 1: End related processes of Search Snacks adware. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.
random.exe

Step 2: Uninstall Search Snacks. Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs. Select Search Snacks and other unknown programs, and right click Uninstall.

Step 3: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.
C:\program files
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\

Step 4: Remove toolbars and extension from your web 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.