Search.brasshour.com virus - How to remove

Search.brasshour.com virus is a browser hijacker that can infiltrate into your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari browsers without your knowledge. The program is promoted via free downloads and is added to a browser by the time you are installing some software from the Internet, for example, a music or video player PDF creator or some other tool. Once inside, it immediately changes your homepage and default search provider to Search.brasshour.com. Although it looks like a regular search page, it actually has very poor search services and it tries to promote various commercial websites all the time.

It is strongly recommended to remove Search.brasshour.com virus and choose a reputable search provider. You can do it either manually or automatically. Manual removal guide is provided below this article. To remove Search.brasshour.com virus automatically, run a full system scan wit ha reputable anti-malware program, like Spyhunter or StopZilla.

About Search.brasshour.com virus

The main goal of Search.brasshour.com virus is to advertise sponsored websites and increase their traffic. It adds various commercial websites to your search results and tries to make you click on them. The more clicks it gets, the more money its creators make. Although Search.brasshour.com virus does not have any direct damage ton your computer, it uses dishonest ways to infiltrate and promotes affiliate websites. These are the reasons that allow to call it a potentially unwanted program.

Beware that Search.brasshour.com virus can be installed with an additional adware that will track your browsing habits and try to involve you into other marketing related campaigns. Yu may later notice increased amount of ads trying to take you to other sponsored websites. If you want to browse safely, you should about Search.brasshour.com virus and other PUPs. You should consider getting a reliable anti-malware program that would protect your system from these applciations.

Distribution Methods of Search.brasshour.com virus

The program take over the browsers when you download various freeware or if you open some attachments from spam emails, click on suspicious links, etc. Be more careful with what you are downloading from the Internet. Never agree to alter your homepage with unknown websites, like Search.brasshour.com or add programs that are not known for you. Don’t go through the installation steps blindly as you may miss important information and allow adding programs or making changes in your system settings that you shouldn’t.

If your system has already been affected, remove Search.brasshour.com virus as soon as possible.

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Manual removal of Search.brasshour.com virus

How to remove brasshour virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.brasshour.com virus install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to brasshour virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.brasshour.com virus easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove brasshour virus from macOS

Delete Search.brasshour.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the brasshour virus app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Search.brasshour.com virus from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Search.brasshour.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Search.brasshour.com virus from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Search.brasshour.com virus related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to brasshour virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Search.brasshour.com virus from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Search.brasshour.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Search.brasshour.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall brasshour virus and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Search.brasshour.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

Manual removal