Viceice.com - How to remove

Even though Viceice.com might look as regular search engine like Google or Bing, this is not true. It is listed as malicious application – browser hijacker, to be more exact. This means that if your computer is infected with Viceice.com virus, the home page of your web browser will be changed automatically and a lot of results on this particular search engine might be corrupted.

Developers of this browser hijacker use very clever tactic – they use Google Custom Search as core technology for Viceice.com. This way they convince a lot of users that Viceice.com is a legitimate tool that will help to browse the internet more efficient. At the same time they can display good quality results to users without putting any extra work. However, Viceice.com is known for inserting sponsored links into the search results.

The biggest problem is that those sponsored links most of the time are not relevant to your search. This means that you will waste your time. Moreover, those links might be malicious, i.e. you will be redirected to websites owned by various cyber criminals, such as hacker or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or if you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

If you install Viceice.com on your computer, all home pages on your web browsers will be changed to viceice.com. You might also experience slowed down work of your computer because of this infection.

And last but definitely not least disturbing and unwanted attribute of Viceice.com is advertisements. Even though it is browser hijacker and not an adware, Viceice.com might display advertisements on your web browsers in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text, banner or contextual advertisements. New tab or even window with advertisement might be opened on your web browser at any time as well.

It works as browser add-on that can be added to all most common web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or even Safari. This means that Apple users can get infected as well. Even though Viceice.com is not very dangerous, you should not keep it installed on your computer because it can lead you to some more serious cyber security problems.

In case you are wondering how your computer got infected with this browser hijacker, take a look back at your downloads history. The most common method of distribution of virus like this is called bundled. I.e. when you download and install some free application that looks like legitimate tool and some additional features like this hijacker just come along without even warning you about that. This being said, we suggest to pay close attention to the installation process of freeware downloaded from the Internet.

In order to eliminate Viceice.com from your browsers and computer, you will have to complete several tasks. However, this process might be complicated if you don’t have needed knowledge or experience of doing this in the past. That’s why we have developed a step-by-step Viceice.com manual removal guide. Take a look at it and then try to complete all steps correctly.

Please notice that it’s not enough to remove Viceice.com from your browsers and control panel. In order to get rid of this malware completely, you will have to eliminate various leftovers of it. Since it’s almost impossible to do it manually, we recommend to get some help from credible anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter or Malwarebytes. All you have to do is to download one of these applications, install it on your computer and then run a full scan of all files stored on your hard drive. It should clean your system from all unwanted files just in a couple of minutes.

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How to remove Viceice.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Viceice.com install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Viceice.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Viceice.com easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Viceice.com from macOS

Delete Viceice.com from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Viceice.com app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Viceice.com from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Viceice.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Viceice.com from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Viceice.com related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Viceice.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Viceice.com from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Viceice.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Viceice.com from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Viceice.com and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Viceice.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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