Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus - How to remove

Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus

Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus is a browser hijacker that can affect Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. If your system was infected, you will first of all notice that your homepage and default search provider are changed to utorrent.inspsearch.com. These modifications will be made without your permission and although this website looks like a normal search page, there are few thing you should know about it that are not those of a regular search tool.

Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus is installed to computers together with free programs from the Internet, like video players, PDF creators, etc. Users often do not notice this as they tend to skip many installation steps without having a closer look and simply clicking on the Next button. In order to avoid Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus, you should always follow installation steps of the programs from the Internet and if you see any offers to download unknown tools or make changes in your browsers, refuse them, unless you know it will be an improvement to the current features.

If you make a search using Utorrent.inspsearch.com, you will notice that it includes tons of sponsored websites to your search results. This happens because the purpose of this hijacker is to advertise commercial websites and increase their traffic. However, it makes your browsing quite unpleasant as you cannot get relevant search results. Since such activity is not a fair one, we do not recommend keeping Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus on your computer.

To remove Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list and uninstall it from there. 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 Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus from Internet Explorer:

  1. Click arrow on the right of search box
  2. Do following: On IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, On ie7 click change search defaults
  3. Remove Utorrent.inspsearch.com from the list

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

How To remove Utorrent.inspsearch.com virus from Google Chrome:

  1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on 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).

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