Pesquisa.ninja virus - How to remove

Pesquisa.ninja virus is a browser hijacker that mainly targets Portuguese speaking countries. It is an exact replica of Dounty.com and Zwiiky.com malware samples. All of these suspicious search platforms interfere with users’ regular browsing and cause constant redirections. The main purpose of it is to promote sponsored websites and build traffic for them (Entrepreneur). If you have noticed it on any of your browsers, you should remove Pesquisa.ninja virus as soon as possible. We do recognize that many people might have difficult time understanding articles in English. Therefore, we provide articles in Portuguese (Malwarerid) and Spanish (Malwarerid) languages languages.

There are two ways of removing this malware threat: manually or automatically. Manual removal might be tricky for some users, so we have developed a step-by-step guide that show all the steps you have to complete in order to delete Pesquisa.ninja virus for good. To remove the program automatically, run a full system scan with an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter or StopZilla.

About Pesquisa.ninja virus

Pesquisa.ninja redirect virus modifies homepages and search providers without even asking for permission. This is the moment when this application receives a label of “potentially unwanted application” (PUA) TrendMicro). Another suspicious trait makes us question the respectability of this search platform. Bogots.com virus is also an identical extension and has been noticed to initiate dangerous activities.

At first glance, you won’t even be able to tell that Pesquisa.ninja search platform is unsafe to use, but once you try making a search, you will soon notice that something is wrong with this search engine. It adds numerous sponsored websites to your search results and displays various ads that contain links to the same pages.

Most of the web traffic is generated by people from Mozambique, meaning that they are the mostly-targeted audience. However, we do believe that other surfers could be compromised by this threat. Results to search queries are presented in a Brazilian version of Search.yahoo.com, meaning that people from Brazilian-speaking regions could also face this search platform. Brazil is frequently targeted by browser hijackers. Adulfilter.net and Shielddefense.net are one of the samples that do. Additionally, Pesquisa.ninja domain has also been noticed to be active in Angola.

Basically, the harmful program tries to advertise various retailers online and build up traffic for their websites. Although it doesn’t necessarily mean it will try to take you to malicious pages, there are no guarantees that it only promotes safe ones. Nevertheless, malicious pop-ups involved in marvetising (Zeltser), could be displayed.

Messages like “The Roboto Condensed font was not found”or Weevah2.top will attempt to influence operating systems with malicious scripts and it can become a daily inconvenience. If you notice pop-ups just as the latter two, we hope you will know better than to interact with them. Instead, you should take this as a sign of a virus, influencing your operating system.

Distribution Methods of Pesquisa.ninja virus

Pesquisa.ninja virus takes over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome and Safari browsers when users install some free programs to their systems. To avoid this, you should be more careful with what you are installing to your system and carefully follow the installation steps of free programs from the Internet, such as media players, PDF creators and so on. Make sure you don’t allow replacing your homepage or search provider to unknown websites. Some freeware can do it without asking permission separately. It is also recommended to look thought Terms and Agreements of your new downloads to be sure you don’t agree installing any additional programs.

If your system has already been affected, remove Pesquisa.ninja virus as soon as possible. Use a guide provided below and get rid of it manually or simply download an anti-malware and run a full system scan to fix the issue automatically. Make sure you don’t leave it on any of your browsers.

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Manual removal of Pesquisa.ninja virus

How to remove Pesquisa.ninja virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja virus from macOS

Delete Pesquisa.ninja virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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 Pesquisa.ninja 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.