Secury-surf.com virus - How to remove

Secury-surf.com virus is a browser hijacker that attacks three main browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The main purpose of this application is to advertise various sponsored links and build up traffic for specific websites. Although it says it is powered by Yahoo, it does not provide reliable search results and despite your search queries, it will try to take you the same pages. For this reason it is recommended to remove Secury-surf.com virus once you detect it.

If you are curious to know why this website was set as your homepage and default search provider, you will find the answer on this article. Usually, Secury-surf.com virus gets infiltrated while you are downloading freeware applications from the Internet. Most of them do not properly disclose about making changes in your browsers. Even if they do, many users tend to skip installation steps without reading them and allow making such modifications without knowing it. Although users are always reminded of the importance of following their new downloads installation steps, not all of them pay proper attention to the text.

All goals Secury-surf.com virus are related to marketing. It either advertises affiliate links and collects money for its creators or tries to redirect users to unknown websites that may contain malicious or potentially unwanted programs. This is not an honest method to promote anything and since it can hinder your computers security, it is recommended to remove Secury-surf.com virus as soon as you detect it.

Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove programs list and uninstall anything related to this domain from there. Some versions of this hijacker 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 Secury-surf.com virus from Internet Explorer (older versions):

1. Click on the arrow on the right of the search box;
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, on IE7 click change search defaults;
3. Remove Secury-surf.com from the list.

How to remove Secury-surf.com virus from IE 11:

1. Click on the Settings icon (top right)->Manage Addons;
2. Select Search Providers;
3. Change the default search engine to Bing or Google;
4. If any of these search providers is not available, follow “Find more search providers” in the bottom of the screen and install Google.

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

How to remove Secury-surf.com virus from Google Chrome:

1. Click on 3 horizontal lines icon on the 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).
6. If your New Tab page is hijacked, you will have to scan with anti-malware program or use New Tab Redirect extension from Chrome Store.

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