Saturday, October 19, 2013

Effectively Remove Only-Search.com Redirect from Your PC

Are you bored by the redirect of Only-search.com? Do you want to find out a solution to remove Only-search.com easily? Are you wandering how Only-search.com enters into your PC?  In this passage, we answer all of your questions and provide the most effective to remove Only-search.com completely and thoroughly from the infected PC.

What is Only-search.com?  How harmful Only-search.com is?

Only-search.com is a new released computer infection which is classified as browser hijacker. The same as other redirect viruses, Only-search.com will attack the browsers in the target PC once it gets inside. Only-search.com browser hijacker will alter all the homepages in the infected PC, no matter you are using Internet Explorer, Firfox, Google Chrome or other kinds of browsers. And then change the default search engines to its own one. The search results display by Only-search.com are always fake and dangerous. To confuse the users, Only-search.com virus may put the false links among the real links. Inexperienced users always cannot tell the differences between these links, if the fake links are clicked, users may be lead to the malicious website that contains lots of pornographic contents and pictures. 


At the same time, Only-search.com redirect may also create unstopped pop-up ads. These popup ads flood your computer screen when you visit websites. You should never think that these ads are only used to promote certain products and ignore them. These ads from Only-search.com may redirect you to hijacked websites. Some hijacked websites are used by cyber criminals to create traffic for website ranking. But some hijacked websites may be implanted with Trojans and Rootkits by cyber criminals. If you are navigated to these malicious webpage, your compromised PC may be at the risk of attacking by other kinds of computer viruses.

Also, Only-search.com Redirect virus can prevent victim’s access to security web sites and disable access to system programs. With the influence of Only-search.com Redirect virus, the infected computer will run more and more slowly and sometimes windows get freeze. It is the time for you to delete this notorious computer virus now, otherwise, you will get system crash in the end.

Name – Only-search.com
Type: browser hijacker
Risk Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Operating Environment: Windows platform
Targeted Browsers:Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.
Geographical distribution: Globally Distributed
Screenshots:


Effective methods to get rid of Only-search.com browser hijacker :


Method one: Manually remove Only-search.com browser hijacker 

Method two: Automatically remove Only-search.com browser hijacker easily with SpyHunter


Detail instruction (please perform all the steps in correct order)


Method one: Manually remove Only-search.com browser hijacker 

1. End all the running processes of Only-search.com Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.

Stop all the running processes about Only-search.com.  

2. Remove malicious add-on and extensions from your web browsers.
Internet Explorer: 
(1). Click Start, type: Manage browser add-ons 
(2). Hit Enter on your keyboard 
(3). Click Manage add-on and disable all the suspicious add-on.
 

Firefox:
(1). Click the Firefox menu and click Add-on  
(2). Click Extensions, select the related browser add-on and click Disable.

Google Chrome: 
(1). Click the Customize and Control menu button →Tools→ click Extensions

3.Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Only-search.com

Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.
 

4. Clean cookies 
Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options →the General tab, Delete the Cookies button can be directly seen in IE6, IE7 is to click the Delete Browsing History button then tick Cookies and click Delete. 

Firefox: Tools → Options → Privacy → Remove Individual Cookies → Delete corresponding cookies in the cookies showing box.

Opera: Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Cookies →Delete corresponding cookies in Management Cookies. 

5. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about Only-search.com (1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
 
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).  

(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.
%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

6. Delete malicious registry entries related to this virus.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )


Delete all the vicious registries as below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\random.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random

Method two: Automatically remove Only-search.com easily with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step one: Click the Download icon to install SpyHunter in your PC.  

Step two: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.  

Step three: Choose Select all>Remove to get rid of all the threats on your PC.

Video on how to remove Only-search.com:


Note: Only-search.com should be removed as soon as possible, otherwise, you will not only have to receive pop-up ads all the time, but also suffer from poor running speed, unstable internet connection and many other kinds of PC issues. If you haven’t sufficient expertise in manually dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries, it may lead to mistakes damaging your system permanently. If you are not very good at computer, you are recommended to download Spyhunter to automatically remove Only-search.com from your PC.

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