Search.Jzip.com hijacker - How to remove

JZip is a free files compression tool that offers creating, opening and extracting Zip, TAR, Gzip and 7-Zip files and you can download it from its official website jzip.com. The problem about this application is that it tries to earn money by displaying ads in your search results. The program installs Search.Jzip.com hijacker to your system which can affect your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

Once inside, Search.Jzip.com hijacker modifies your browser settings and replaces your homepage with Search.Jzip.com. This website is powered by Ask.com, which is yet another search engine, much less popular than Google or Bing. Although the website looks like a regular search page, it actually tries to advertise various sponsored websites and JZip makers get money for the clicks on affiliate links by people who use Ask engine.

JZip is not considered to be a malicious program but it uses unfair methods to advertise various websites and earn money by tricking computer users into pressing on promoted links. It definitely is very irritating to have to deal with the hijacker. If you have recently used JZip and your any of your browsers have been affected by Search.Jzip.com hijacker, you are recommended to get rid of it.

To remove Search.Jzip.com hijacker from your system, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list and uninstall it from there. It is recommended to delete ALL programs added 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.Jzip.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 Search.Jzip.com from the list

How To remove Search.Jzip.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.Jzip.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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