Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker - How to remove

We have noticed a new and rapidly rising computer virus – Search.obtenezemail.com. Well, it’s not the most dangerous virus, it’s just a browser hijacker, but it can still cost you a lot of problems. Actually, you can even lose your personal information due to it, so it should be taken seriously.

Basically, browser hijackers aim to modify your personal settings and make you visit websites that they are affiliated with. In addition to that, hijackers also collect your personal information and might sell it to third parties or use it for other bad purposes. Also, it can infiltrate other malware and get your computer severely infected.

Our goal is to inform our users about this threat and help to remove it for those who are already infected. So if you have Search.obtenezemail.com running on one of your web browsers, please keep reading the article and learn how to eliminate it effectively. Also, you should increase your computer protection in order to ensure that this won’t happen ever again.

How Search.obtenezemail.com Operates

It’s clear that Search.obtenezemail.com virus is targeted to the users from France. Their website is in French and most of their visitors (over 80%) come from this country. Nevertheless, it can infect your computer even if you don’t speak French and that would be even more frustrating.

Search.obtenezemail.com is not a typical application that is installed on a computer and can be removed through the control panel or using some special utility tool. It was built as a browser add-on, so all it takes to infect your computer is to be added to the extensions list on one of your browsers. Once that is done, the virus automatically makes changes to your personal settings without even asking for permission to do that.

It will set a new tab page on the infected browser to be www.search.obtenezemail.com, so you will see it every time a new tab is opened. It is supposed to be a useful website that enhances your web browsing and web search experience. Unfortunately, we found that to be not true.

On a landing page, there are various links to other websites. Most of them are pretty popular and reliable – Facebook, Gmail, Outlook and so on. They place those links there in order to create an image of reliable service and a lot of users fall for this trick. They also display a current time and a feature to check your mail faster.

Arguably, the highlighted feature of this website is a web search. They want you to use their service for your daily web searches. In fact, there is no unique web search engine – they simply redirect all users to Yahoo search. That also might seem reliable, but the thing is – they can modify search results.

How Your Computer Was Infected

This application is mostly distributed as a bundle to other free software that can be downloaded from the Internet. If you have never heard of it, this method is pretty uncomplicated. Cybercriminals simply add the installer of Search.obtenezemail.com to the installer of other software, so you download two installers instead of one without even knowing it.

During the installation process, you are likely to be offered to install an additional free tool that will enhance your web browsing experience and if you agree to that – that’s it, Search.obtenezemail.com is automatically installed. The truth is that most of the users don’t even pay attention to the installation process, so this distribution method is pretty effective.

Obviously, you can expect to avoid every security threat online, but you can protect your computer with free anti-malware software to increase those chances. We highly recommend to keep an anti-malware program running in the background all the time – try to use Plumbytes or IObit Malware Fighter.

Elimination of Search.obtenezemail.com Virus

If one of your web browsers is infected with Search.obtenezemail.com, you have to take action right now. In case you are looking for an effective and easy solution, obviously, it is scanning your computer with anti-malware tool, such as Spyhunter. Spyhunter features a huge database of thousands of various viruses and this database is being constantly updated, so it won’t have any problem detecting Search.obtenezemail.com. After the detection, the virus itself and all files associated with it will be eliminated automatically for you.

However, there is one thing that Search.obtenezemail.com can’t do for you – restore browser settings that have been changed by the hijacker. You will have to do that by yourself, but that’s not that complicated if you have proper guidance. For this purpose, we have developed a step-by-step restore guide to completely heal your web browser after the infection of Search.obtenezemail.com – find those instructions below the article.

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How to remove obtenezemail Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker 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 obtenezemail Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker 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 obtenezemail Hijacker from macOS

Delete Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the obtenezemail Hijacker 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker, 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker 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 obtenezemail Hijacker, 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker, 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall obtenezemail Hijacker 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 Search.obtenezemail.com Hijacker, 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.