Search.shareazaweb.net virus - How to remove

Search.shareazaweb.net virus is a browser hijacker that is installed to random computers together with free software. Once inside, it installs Shareaza Music Toolbar to your Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. It also changes your default search provider to ask.com and sets search.shareazaweb.net as your homepage.

The program constantly displays ads while you are browsing the Internet. If you click on these messages, you will be rerouted to some unknown websites. Search.shareazaweb.net virus can also collect information about your search queries and other browsing habits. Later it can be sent to the remote server and used for malicious purposes. Search.shareazaweb.net virus seeks to get information that could be later used for marketing and also increase traffic of specific websites.

You can remove such programs reaching your system if you pay more attention to your downloads. Free software most of the time include additional programs bundled which are installed automatically unless the user deselects this option at one of the installation steps. Make sure you never agree to install any unknown programs and you will avoid many unwanted actions.

Remove Search.shareazaweb.net virus from your computer as soon you detect it on your browser. Have in mind that if you only remove Shareaza Music Toolbar, you browser settings will not be reset. You will have to do it manually on each infected browser.

How to remove Search.shareazaweb.net virus?

To remove Search.shareazaweb.net virus you will have to scan your computer with anti-malware programs like Spyhunter or adwcleaner or uninstall all the problematic software from control panel. In some cases the software names might be random, so you should take care and investigate all the programs in Control Panel.

After the uninstall you should fix search providers and new tab settings in all the browsers:

Search.shareazaweb.net virusremoval For IE:

• Open IE and go to ‘Tools‘ → ”Manage Add-ons’.
• Choose ‘Toolbars and Extensions’ and uninstall everything related to Search.shareazaweb.net virus or Shareaza Music Toolbar from the list.
• Choose ‘Search Providers’ → choose the search engine you used before and make it your default search provider. Additionally, select ‘Web Search’, click ‘Disable suggestions’ to disable it.
• Go ‘Tools’ → ‘Internet Options’ and select ‘General’ tab. Click ‘Use default’ or enter your own website name, google.com or other. Finally, click ‘OK’ to save the changes.

Search.shareazaweb.net virus removal For Mozilla Firefox:

• Open Mozilla Firefox, go ‘Tools’ → ‘Add-ons’.
• Choose ‘Extensions’ → Search.shareazaweb.net or Shareaza Music Toolbar and click ‘Uninstall’.
• Go ‘Tools’ → ‘Options’. Finally, reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com.
• Enter About:config and search for Search.shareazaweb.net virus and reset these settings

Search.shareazaweb.net virus removal For Google Chrome:

• Click on the icon ‘Customize and control Google Chrome’, select ‘Options’.
• Choose ‘Basic’ Options and change Google Chrome homepage to google.com or any other browser and then click the ‘Manage search engines…’ button.
• Choose ‘Google’ and make it your default search engine.

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