Wiki-search.me - How to remove

Wiki-search.me is not a reliable website that you could trust. Even though it looks like legitimate one, cyber security experts revealed that it should be listed as browser hijacker.

It’s not very difficult to indicate whether your computer is infected with Wiki-search.me because once inside of the system it immediately changes home page and default search engine on all of web browsers to www.wiki-search.me. So if you have noticed this occurrence on any of your web browsers, your computer is definitely infected and you should take care of that.

There are two most common methods to remove malware like this – it can be done either manually or automatically, so it’s completely up to you which removal method to choose.

Since it’s much easier to do it automatically, we suggest to select this removal method. Simply download and install reliable anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter or Malwarebytes and run a full scan of all files stored on your hard drive. One of these applications should immediately detect and remove the virus. It should also protect your computer from similar infections in the future, so it’s worth to keep it installed. You can use other anti-malware software of your choice too.

In case you prefer to perform this removal manually – scroll down below this article and take a look at our step-by-step Wiki-search.me manual removal guide. We have developed it to assist you through this complicated process of virus removal. Try to complete all steps correctly and you should be able to remove Wiki-search.me manually by yourself.

To learn more about specific features of Wiki-search.me please continue reading this article. If you have some questions regarding this topic, feel free to ask them in the comments section below and we will do our best to answer them all.

About Wiki-search.me browser hijacker

Even though Wiki-search.me looks like legitimate search engine, you should not trust it. First of all, it displays a lot of sponsored results that are not relevant to you search queries. This way you will waste your time. Secondly, those sponsored links might lead you to some trouble, so we do not recommend to click on them.

If you click on one of those sponsored links, you will be immediately redirected to other websites that might be owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or if you attempt to purchase seomething there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

Wiki-search.me also has some attributes of an adware. Once inside it will display various ads on all of your web browsers. Those ads can be displayed in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text, banner or contextual advertisementes.

Distribution Methods of Wiki-search.me

Wiki-search.me might enter your computer when you download and install some freeware from unreliable website. For example, when you download and install some PDF generator or media player, Wiki-search.me can come bundled with it. To avoid this happening, always pay close attention to the installation process of freeware and keep your computer secured with reliable anti-malware application all the time.

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Manual removal of Wiki-search.me

How to remove Wiki-search.me using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me from macOS

Delete Wiki-search.me from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me, 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 Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me, 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 Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me, 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 Wiki-search.me from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Wiki-search.me 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 Wiki-search.me, 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.