Search.zebrouss.com - How to remove

Search.zebrouss.com might look like legitimate search provider at first sight, but you should not trust this website. It is listed as browser hijacker and can cause you some severe cyber security problems, therefore we recommend to stay away from it.

Removal of this virus is not very complicated if you do it automatically. Basically all you have to do is to download reliable anti-malware application and scan your computer with it. We recommend to use either Spyhunter or Malwarebytes for this task. However, anti-malware application can’t change settings on you web browsers, so you will have to do it automatically – simply change your default search engine and home page and delete Search.zebrouss.com from that list.

If for some reasons you don’t want to download any anti-malware software, you can eliminate Search.zebrouss.com manually as well. This process might be difficult, so we have developed a step-by-step Search.zebrouss.com manual removal guide to help you out – scroll down below this article and check it out. Do your best to complete all steps correctly and you should be able to eliminate Search.zebrouss.com manually by your own.

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. To learn more about specific features of Search.zebrouss.com please continue reading this article.

About Search.zebrouss.com browser hijacker

If your computer gets infected with this virus, default search engine and home page on all your web browsers will be changed to www.saerc.zebrouss.com. And even though this website looks like legitimate search engine, we do not recommend to use it.

First of all, if you use Search.zebrouss.com you will see a lot of sponsored results. Those results usually are not relevant to your search queries, so you will waste your time. Moreover, they usually lead to malicious websites, owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. So if you click on those sponsored links, you will be redirected to website that might cause other infections to your system. Moreover, if you attempt to purchase something there, you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money this way.

Search.zebrouss.com also has some attributes of an adware. Once inside it will display various advertisements on all of your web browsers. Those ads can come in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text, banner or contextual advertisements. New tab or even window with advertisement on it can be opened 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. That means Apple users can get infected as well.

Distribution Methods of Search.zebrouss.com adware

Search.zebrouss.com might enter your computer when you download and install some freeware from unreliable websites. So every time you download and install some PDF generator or downloads manager, there is a chance that Search.zebrouss.com will enter your system alongside. To avoid this happening, we suggest to keep your computer secured with reliable anti-malware application all the time and pay close attention to the installation process of freeware.

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Manual removal of Search.zebrouss.com virus

How to remove zebrouss using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.zebrouss.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 zebrouss . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.zebrouss.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 zebrouss from macOS

Delete Search.zebrouss.com from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the zebrouss 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 Search.zebrouss.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 Search.zebrouss.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 Search.zebrouss.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 Search.zebrouss.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 zebrouss, 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 Search.zebrouss.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 Search.zebrouss.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 Search.zebrouss.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 zebrouss 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 Search.zebrouss.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.

Manual removal