Zipfilesearch.com virus - How to remove

Zipfilesearch.com virus is described as useful and free tool that will allow you to zip and unzip files online, right on your web browser. This opportunity sure sounds tempting, yet the application itself is listed as browser hijacker and thus we suggest not to use it nor keep installed on your computer.

We have tested this tool and the results are pretty sad – it is not working. First of all, you have to select a file you want to zip or unzip and give it a name and select a Zip Extension, then click ‘ZIP!’ button. However, immediately after that you will end up looking at Error screen, because the application can’t actually perform this action:

Moving on – the next function on this website is a web search. However, all search queries are processed through Yahoo search, so Zipfilesearch.com just serves as a middleman that is actually useless. And that’s not even the main reason why we consider this website to be malicious. Zipfilesearch.com is operating as browser add-on, which gets added to your web browsers automatically, with no easy ways to remove it. This add-on sets homepage and default search engine settings to www.zipfilesearch.com so it can be really irritating to see this unwanted website every time you open your web browser.

This browser hijacker is distributed by Hopebest Services – a company that is well known for developing malware like this. However, Whois information is hidden so we can’t really tell who is the registrar of this website. If you are thinking what’s the point of this malware, most likely it’s distribution of affiliated applications and websites. So if your computer is infected with Zipfilesearch.com, chances are that other malware will be infiltrated soon. That’s why we suggest to get rid of this add-on as soon as possible. Zipfilesearch.com also makes money by redirecting web traffic, so you can experience random pop-up ads or ads on a new tab.

How We Use the Personal Information We Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe and customized user experience. We may use your personal information to:

• Provide the products and services that you requested;
• Deliver HOPEBEST Services and customer support;
• Perform target marketing and advertising that is tailored to your interests;
• Manage and protect our business, which includes the quality of the HOPEBEST Services and system;
• Contact you by postal mail, e-mail, or telephone in order to explain our recent products and services.; and
• Resolve complaints, abuse, or other allegations;

It’s an extract from their privacy policy, so as you can see, they publicly declare that Zipfilesearch.com will collect your personal information and use it to ‘perform tarhet marketing and advertising’. In addition to that, you can be contacted via mail, e-mail, or phone and that is called spamming. We believe that information about you can be also transferred (or even sold) to unknown third parties and that is really huge cyber security threat.

As you already know, Zipfilesearch.com works as browser add-on so in order to get rid of it, you will have to remove it from your web browser. It can be easily done manually (take a look at our removal instruction below this article). After that, you will have to change homepage and default search engine settings manually too. However, Zipfilesearch.com can also make some changes on your computer, edit some registries or create files. Solving this problem manually could be a real pain, thus we suggest to get yourself a decent anti-malware application, Spyhunter. Either one of them should be able to solve all those problems completely.

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How to remove Zipfilesearch.com virus using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Zipfilesearch.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Zipfilesearch.com virus 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus, 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus, 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus, 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Zipfilesearch.com virus 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 Zipfilesearch.com virus, 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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