Tika-search.com virus - How to remove

Tika-search.com virus is a browser hijacker that can be installed to your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome without your permission. The program changes your default search to Tika Search and replaces your homepage with tika-search.com despite which one used to be your start page before. Although it doesn’t harm your system, Tika-search.com virus is very annoying application that interferes into your browsing experience.

Usually, this kind of applications are installed to computers bundled with free software from the Internet. Most likely, it has managed to be installed to one or all of your browsers while you were downloading some video recording tools, music players, PDF creators, etc. If you want to avoid downloading additional applications, you should always go for Custom installation and carefully follow every step of the process so you could remove the check boxes marked by default informing about adding of additional tools.

Tika-search.com virus is very irritating because of interruptions it causes when you browse the Internet. If you use its search you will see that the program includes tons of sponsored websites to your search results. In fact it promotes these pages therefore they will not only appear in the list of your search results but you will also be redirected to these pages while browsing the Internet. Beware that Tika-search.com virus can also collect information about your browsing habits and later use this information to display targeted advertisements too.

Remove Tika-search.com virus from your computer as soon as you detect it on your system. First, you will have to remove it from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list. It is recommended to uninstalling ALL programs installed 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 Tika-search.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 on Change search defaults;
3. Remove Tika-search.com from the list.

How to remove Tika-search.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 Tika-search.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 and reset it;
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it and reset it;
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it and reset it;
5. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on every 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 Tika-search.com virus from Google Chrome:

1. Click on the 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.

Remove shortcut hijack (all browsers) (optional):

If your browser opens Tika-search.com page on startup only, try this:

1. Right click on your browser icon. Choose Properties;
2. Open Short cut tab;
3. Delete Tika-search.com part from target field.

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