Enhanced-search.com virus - How to remove

Enhanced-search.com virus is a browser hijacker that is distributed to computers with a help of other software. It can be bundled to various free programs, like PDF creators, music or video players, etc. The program is considered to be a potentially unwanted one because usually it is not clearly disclosed about it during the installation of your chosen software and because the application makes changes in your system without asking for your permission.

Once inside, the tool changes your homepage and default search provider to Enhanced-search.com. If you make a search using this website, you will soon notice that it does not provide reliable search results. Instead you will see lists of sponsored websites and advertisements. This means that you can easily be redirected to unknown or malicious websites that try to sell something or even contain infections. Moreover, you will not be able to make any efficient searches. Pay attention to what is going on on your browser and if you see that your start page is not the same as it used to be, find out the reason why that happened.

As already mentioned above, Enhanced-search.com virus usually infiltrates together with other programs. Make sure you don’t download any unknown applications to your computer and don’t forget about the possibility to get bundles installed. Always choose a custom or advanced installation and do not allow making any changes in your browser settings or adding additional tools to your system. If it happened for you to find Enhanced-search.com virus on your browser, remove this hijacker immediately.

Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to Enhanced-search.com domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker install software that blocks browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with Spyhunter or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.

How to remove Enhanced-search.com virus from Internet Explorer (older versions):

1. Click on the arrow on the right of the search box;
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, on IE7 click on Change search defaults;
3. Remove Enhanced-search.com from the list.

How to remove Enhanced-search.com virus from IE 11:

1. Click on the Settings icon (top right)->Manage Addons;
2. Select Search Providers;
3. Change the default search engine to Bing or Google;
4. If any of these search providers is not available, follow “Find more search providers” in the bottom of the screen and install Google.

How To remove Enhanced-search.com virus from Firefox:

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page;
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click and reset it;
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it and reset it;
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it and reset it;
5. Type “browser.startup.homepage” in the search box. Right click it and reset;
6. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on every new tab;
7. If the settings revert and scan with anti-malware programs are clean: close Firefox, open file explorer and enter %AppData% in the address bar. Enter user.js in the search box. If this file exists, rename it and start Firefox again. You will have to repeat the steps above.

How To remove Enhanced-search.com virus from Google Chrome:

1. Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on the browser toolbar;
2. Select Settings;
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines;
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from the list;
5. Go back to Settings. On Startup choose ‘Open blank page’ (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too);
6. If your New Tab page is hijacked, you will have to scan with anti-malware program or use New Tab Redirect extension from Chrome Store.

Remove shortcut hijack (all browsers) (optional):

If your browser opens Enhanced-search.com page on startup only, try this:

1. Right click on your browser icon. Choose Properties;
2. Open Short cut tab;
3. Delete Enhanced-search.com part from target field.

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