Search-guru.com virus - How to remove

Search-guru.com virus is a browser hijacker that infiltrates into random computers without users’ consent. The program can be added to your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It modifies your browsers’ settings without your consent. The program changes your default search provider and homepage to Search-guru.com and causes some more modifications.

The application is distributed to computers bundled with various free programs from the Internet. Usually, Search-guru.com virus is downloaded while you are installing some PDF creator, music player, etc. In order to avoid that, you should carefully follow the installation steps of whatever programs you are downloading. If you be very attentive and read every installation step, you will see additional programs that come bundled to the main one marked to be added by default. All you need to do to avoid unwanted applications is to remove the check boxes next to the titles.

The purpose of Search-guru.com virus is to advertise several websites. It includes these pages to your search results and causes redirections to them. In addition, Search-guru.com virus collects information about your search queries and browsing history. Later this information can be used for various purposes, especially, for marketing related ones.

You should remove Search-guru.com virus from your system as soon as you detect it on your computer. First, you will have to remove it from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list . It is recommended to uninstalling ALL programs installed on the same date as problems have appeared. Some versions of this virus 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 Search-guru.com virus from Internet Explorer:

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

How To remove Search-guru.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 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.
6. 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 search box. If this file exists, rename it and start Firefox again. You will have to repeat the steps above.

How To remove Search-guru.com virus from 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 the list.
5. Go back to settings. On Startup choose open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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