Wisersearch.com virus - How to remove

Wisersearch.com virus is a browser hijacker that can be installed to your system when you are downloading various freeware from the Internet. To avoid such annoying applications, you should pay more attention to the installation processes of free programs you are adding. Usually users are impatient and want to finish their installation process as soon as possible therefore they simply hit the Next button to make it quicker. However, if you follow the installation steps attentively, you may notice some pre-selected boxes informing about activation of additional tools, offering to change your start page, etc. You should always deselect these options if you don’t want to end up having unwanted programs on your system.

Wisersearch.com virus tends to be installed together with free music players, video players or recorders, download managers and so on. Once installed, it replaces your currently selected homepage and default search provider. Although Wisersearch.com looks like a regular search website, it adds many sponsored links to your search results and cause redirections. It is known that a plugin distributed with WiserSearch is OfferMosquito.

Security experts recommend removing such applications from your system otherwise, they will irritate with annoying redirections while browsing the Internet and performing search queries, flood your system with popups and even try to take you to malicious pages. To remove Wisersearch.com virus you will have to uninstall it from Control Panel. It is recommended to use a reputable antispyware program for a full system scan to be performed. It will ensure this hijacker and all its related files are deleted.

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 Wisersearch.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 Wisersearch.com from the list

How To remove Wisersearch.com virus from Firefox :

1. Disable or remove unnecessary, unknown add-ons from your browser. 
2. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page
3. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
6. Search for ‘browser.newtab.url’. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.
7. 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 Wisersearch.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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