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Sunday, November 10, 2013

How to Remove wisersearch.com Redirect Virus?


Every time you use your web browser, wisersearch.com will appear as your default search engine? Your search on Google or other web browsers are redirected to unrelated web sites? You have tried the best to remove it, but failed? No worries, this post will be helpful for you to remove it.

Know More About wisersearch.com


Threat Type: browser hijacker


Risk Coefficient: High Level

Targeted OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Window8.

Targeted Browsers:Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.

wisersearch.com is another browser hijacker that come inside computer systems and run again your will. Once installed and executed, wisersearch.com will hijack your web browser by modifying its settings. Meanwhile, it could change registry entries to run automatically whenever you open your web browser. It may be bundled with other malware, spyware, and so forth for the installation is automatically. It takes over your homepage and search engine. It seems to be a legitimate search engine, but on its own, it is a redirect virus that will reroute your search results to wisersearch.com or other unrelated web sites. During your browsing process, it may keep showing tons of irritating pop ups. For so many unfamiliar web sites offer with varieties of computer threats, your computer may be infected with Trojan horse, rogue programs, malware, and so on by visiting those redirect web sites.



Your usage of such fake search engine, every click on those redirect web sites or pop ups will gain money for its sponsors and virus creators. Even, it may help cyber criminals to track and steal personal information stored on the computer. Last but not least, the web browser and system is slow for all infiltrations of wisersearch.com could occupy high resources. It is wise to remove wisersearch.com when you find it or it will bring with more and more bad stuffs and do much more harm to the computer. Detailed guide in this post will be helpful for you.

wisersearch Screenshot



Threats of wisersearch.com


1) It comes all of a sudden via various means like spam emails.
2) It may come along with other computer threats as well.
3) It controls your web browser completely.
4) It takes over your homepage and default search engine.
5) It redirects you to other unfamiliar web sites.
6) It may insert in lots of irritating ads in web sites you visit.
7) It slows down system performance, especially the Internet’s.
8) It may lead personal information stored on the computer to be stolen by remote hackers.

Instructions on Removing wisersearch.com


Method 1: Removing wisersearch.com with manual way


step1: Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE together to open the Windows Task Manager, and then end all Wisersearch.com running processes.

random.exe
Step2: Clear all infected files relevant to Wisersearch.com:
%ProgramFiles%\
%UserProfile%\
%Profile%\Local Settings\Temp\
%UserProfile%\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\
Step3: Search for and remove all Wisersearch.com registry entries listed below:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\urlsearchhook.toolbarurlsearchhook
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\urlsearchhook.toolbarurlsearchhook
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallPaper” = ’1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ’1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = ’1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = ‘no’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Use FormSuggest” = ‘yes’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced “ShowSuperHidden” = 0

Method 2: Removing wisersearch.com with automatic way


1) Click the following red icon to install Spyhunter.
 
2) Install Spyhunter Step by Step:




 


3) Execute a full scan with SpyHunter and remove all detected threats.



4) Remove associated programs.



Attention 
Although manual method can remove wisersearch.com, the manual removal process is a bit risky and complicated. It is not worthy of taking risk of losing some important information. And to ensure with the safety and thoroughness, you can download Anti-Malware program SpyHunter to prevent your computer from more serious effect.

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