SafePCRepair Toolbar - How to remove

SafePCRepair Toolbar is a browser hijacker that can be added to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome without user’s consent. Once it gets to your computer, you will notice not only a new toolbar added but also your homepage changed to home.tb.ask.com and default search engine replaced with search.tb.ask.com.

If you use the latter website to make search, you will see that it includes many sponsored links to your search results’ list. What is more, it collects information about your search queries and websites that you visit. Later this information can be used for displaying targeted ads and for other marketing related purposes.

The aim of SafePCRepair Toolbar is to promote several websites and increase traffic to them. It does not harm your system directly, however, it causes many unwanted changes. The program can also redirect you to malicious websites where you may get your system infected with more dangerous malware. You should avoid getting such programs and remove them if you have already detected one on your computer.

SafePCRepair Toolbar is installed to PC together with free programs from the Internet. To avoid its download you should pay more attention to the installation of free applications and reject downloading any additional tools that are not familiar to you. To remove SafePCRepair Toolbar, go to Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstall it from there. You should also check browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and remove it from there. If you do not see it listed, you should use antimalware tools like SpyHunter and scan your computer with it. If you had redirecting issues, you might need to reset your home page and search engine to the one you used before:

On Internet explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box;
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, on ie7 click change search defaults;
3. Remove SafePCRepair Toolbar from the list.

On Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page;
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it;
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it;
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it;
5. Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.

On Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar;
2. Select Settings;
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines;
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from list;
5. Go back to settings. On Startup choose open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

Please note, it is very important to scan your computer with a reliable antimalware program after SafePCRepair Toolbar is removed as it might be your system got infected with viruses while having it.

On behalf of developers of SafePCRepair Toolbar we were asked to remove this article due to false information on it. However, we feel like this post is correct and helpful to our readers. SafePCRepair Toolbar and other software developed by Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. can be detected and recognised as viruses or potentially unwanted software by various anti-malware tools. Toolbars developed by Mindspark share same EULA (End User License Agreement) that is mislieding. It claims that this software is not an adware or malware, while there are statements that toolbars might display advertisements from 3rd parties or monetise toolbars in other ways. By definition such software is considered as an adware. All articles posted on www.2-viruses.com regarding products of Mindspark are correct.

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