Startsear.ch - How to remove

Startsear.ch is a poor reputation website that some people even relate to malware infections. In fact it’s a search engine that provides a mix of Yahoo, Bing and other popular search engines results. There are no evidence that the program would spread malware infections. However, it includes many sponsored websites to its search results and can lead you to clicking on a malicious link. Startsear.ch also causes numerous redirections to unknown websites that is not only annoying but also takes lots of your time.

The program gets access to random computers bundled with other applications. Usually that happens when you are installing some freeware to your computer. You should follow all installation steps and check if the program doesn’t also offer additional programs to be installed to your computer. This way you can avoid lots of unwanted programs.

Keep in mind that, Startsear.ch can even track the information about your online activity and use it for marketing purposes. This means that later you can be attacked by tons of ads displayed on your computer. Security experts recommend removing Starsear.ch from your computer once you detect it on your system.First of all, you have to uninstall it from Windows Control Panel. Go to Start -> Control Panel, click on “Uninstall Program” in Programs area. Look for Startsear.ch on a list and click on Uninstall/Change button next to it. Depending on which browser you are using you will also have to remove Startsear.ch add-ons and Extensions.

How to remove Startsear.ch from IE:

1. Open IE and go to ‘Tools‘ → ”Manage Add-ons’.
2. Choose ‘Toolbars and Extensions’ and uninstall everything related to Startsear.ch from the list.
3. 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.
4. 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.

How to remove Startsear.ch from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox, go ‘Tools’ → ‘Add-ons’.
2. Choose ‘Extensions’ → Startsear.ch and click ‘Uninstall’.
3. Go ‘Tools’ → ‘Options’. Finally, reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com.

How to remove Startsear.ch from Google Chrome:

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

Finally we recommend you to run a full system scan using a reputable antispyware program, for example, Spyhunter.

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