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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

How to Reomve Search.freeze.com Completely?

Anyone Can Offer Help to Get Rid of Search.freeze.com?


User A: It is so irritated to be forced into other unrelated websites for advertisements. I have try my best to remove it, but ended up with failure. Is there anybody can help me out?

User B: My antivirus program detected a virus named Search.freeze.com and deleted something, while the virus still exists on the computer. I am not a computer savvy; anyone can offer any advice for removing it completely?

No worries, you have come to the right place, you will know how to manage with this virus after reading this entire post.

Description of Search.freeze.com


Search.freeze.com is definitely a nasty browser hijacker that aims at attacking browsers like Fire Fox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and etc. It enters to the computer out of the notification. Then it will modify your system and browser settings to launch pop-up advertisements whenever you start Windows. And you will find that your browser has been hijacked. Every time you open a website, it will switch you to the http://Search.freeze.com search engine. When you enter to the advised websites, you may pay money wrongly for worthless products. Additionally, it may introduce additional infections like rogue software, Trojan, or other pc threats, which will make your pc at high risk.

Once it drops corrupt files, it will produce really fast to all program files, processes, dll files and registry entries. For this virus created with high technique, it can hide deep with random names and add new characters. As a result, it slows down the pc performance significantly, and randomly takes screen shots of what is running on your computer. On the other hand, it opens convenient doors so that third parties can access to your computer remotely for making further vulnerabilities and damage.

For stopping from causing more damage and vulnerabilities, you need to remove it as soon as possible once you find it on the computer. Any delay may badly damage the system, at that time, it is really difficult to get it fixed. You can follow the guides below to remove the virus.

How To Far from Search.freeze.com?


1) Do not open e-mail attachments that end with .exe, .bat, .pif, etc
2) Be careful when you want to download anything from Internet for they may be bundled with such virus
3) Don’t click unfamiliar links
4) Ignore pop-up advertisements

Reliable Steps For Removing Search.freeze.com



Step 1. Remove add-ons:
Internet Explorer:
1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.
Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;
Step 2. Show hidden files
step: a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;


b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;


Step 3. Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.
Step: Use CTRL+ALT+DEL combination to open Task Manager

Please stop all the following processes.
random.exe
Step 4. Delete all related files and registry values in your local hard disk C.
step: Hold down the Windows key on your keyboard and press the "R" button. Type in "regedit" and hit "Enter" to gain access to the Registry Editor.


Registry values:
HKCU\..\Run: [BitTorrent DNA] "C:\Program Files\DNA\btdna.exe"
HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe"
HKCU\{numbers} 
HKCU\SOFTWARE\DoubleD 
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{numbers} 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions|{numbers} 


Step 5. Removing Search.freeze.com automatically

1) Click the icon below to download Spyhunter.


2) Install Spyhunter Step by Step:




3) Start a full and quick scan with SpyHunter .


4) Remove detected threats.



Note 
To manually remove Search.freeze.com from computers, you need to be cautious with each removal step as one mistake many result in a loss of important system files. It can be a great risk for you. If you want to avoid this trouble, you'd better install Anti-Malware program SpyHunter. For it can remove Search.freeze.com effectively and thoroughly. Besides, it can protect your computer from infection in the future.

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