Eticosearch.com virus - How to remove

 

Eticosearch.com virus is a browser hijacker that is promoted with free downloads, such as video or music players, PDF creators, download managers and so on. Once inside it can take over your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It changes your homepage to Eticosearch.com on these browsers and interferes into your browsing experience every single time you are surfing on the Internet.

Although Eticosearch.com virus claims to be a great search provider and it even offers multiple search services, like searching for images, videos, news, sports, etc. However, if you try making a search using it, you will see that the search results include a lot of sponsored websites. Eticosearch.com virus may also display random ads that might redirect you to malicious websites. The fact that it is added to browsers without asking users’ permission, also makes it a potentially unwanted program.

It is recommended to remove Eticosearch.com virus from all of your browsers as soon as you detect it. Also be careful with what you are downloading to your computer in future to avoid similar browser hijackers. It is very important to go through the installation steps of your new downloads very carefully and do not allow making any changes in your browsers or adding extra programs. Make sure you choose Custom installation so you could see all optional downloads.

To remove Eticosearch.com virus, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this 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 Eticosearch.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 Eticosearch.com from the list.

How to remove Eticosearch.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 Eticosearch.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 Eticosearch.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 Eticosearch.com page on startup only, try this:

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

 

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