Remove Spot-Search.com Browser Hijacker from PC – Useful Tips

Hijacked by Spot-Search.com? What is it? How it comes on your PC? Don’t know how to get rid of it? More details will be shown on this post, please continue to read. 

What Is Spot-Search.com?

Spot-Search.com is considered as a browser hijacker which often comes into the target PC via free programs downloaded from third parties and has the ability to take place of your current used homepage without consent.

Spot-Search.com is compatible with all popular web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Once your browser is occupied by this browser hijacker, you will find that your browser default homepage and search engine are automatically changed to Spot-Search.com. Moreover, unreliable search results will be provided and the browser pages will be full of unwanted ads and sponsored links.

In a word, spot-search.com is potentially unwanted and should be kicked out of the infected PC immediately without any hesitation.

How to Remove Spot-Search.com Easily and Efficiently?

The following passage is going to provide the step-by-step instruction on removing spot-search.com. Please read carefully and try to understand the removal guide below.

STEP 1: Remove Spot-Search.com Associated Program from Web Browsers
STEP 2: Remove Spot-Search.com with SpyHunter
STEP 3: Optimize Your PC by Using RegCure Pro

STEP 1: Remove Spot-Search.com Associated Program from Web Browsers

1. Stop spot-search.com associated running process in Windows Task Manager.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc together to open Windows Task Manager, click Processes tab, find its associated running process and click on it, then click the End Process button.

2. Uninstall spot-search.com associated program in Control Panel.

Click Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find suspicious program and right click on it select Uninstall to uninstall the program.

3. Remove spot-search.com from web browsers.

Internet Explorer:
1) Click on the gear icon > "Manage Add-ons".
2) Unknown entries, locate and delete them.
3) You can change the home page, click the gear icon and choose "Internet Options".
4) Remove spot-search.com and enter your preferred domain name.
5) To change the default search engine, click on the gear icon, select "Manage Add-ons" > search engine
6) Place your favorite search engine.

Mozilla Firefox:
1) Click on the icon menu (top right) and select "Add-ons" > "Extensions".
2) Here select unknown Add-ons and select the trash can icon to delete these entries.
3) You can change the home page, click on "Firefox", select "Settings".
4) Remove spot-search.com and enter your favorite site.
5) You can change the default search engine by clicking on the menu icon and the question mark icon.
6) Here, you click on the "Fix" and click on "Restart Firefox".

Google Chrome:
1) Click on the icon menu (top right) and select "Tools" > "Extensions".
2) Select suspicious extensions and select the trash icon to delete these entries.
3) You can change the home page, click the "Settings" tab, go to "Search" and then click on "Manage search engines…".
4) Here, remove spot-search.com by clicking on the "X", enter your preferred site, and then click "Make Default".

4. Restart your computer to take effect.

STEP 2: Remove Spot-Search.com with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application designed to assist the average computer user to detect, remove, and protect their PCs from the latest malware attacks. Here shows how it works:

1. Free download SpyHunter by clicking on the below button.

2. Click the "Run" button to enter the setup program and follow the installation steps until setup is complete.

3. When the installation is complete, click the "Finish" button to exit the installation.

4. If SpyHunter does not automatically start, click the icon on your desktop or Start menu to open it.

     

5. Allow the program to scan by clicking the "Scan Computer Now!" button. If you would like to have a quick scan on your PC, please check the "Quick Scan" box; otherwise, uncheck it.

6. The first scan will take some time, please be patient while waiting for the scanning result.

7. After the scan is done, you can see that all threats are successfully detected. Check the "Select All" box and then click the "Remove" button to fix all threats in your PC.

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STEP 3: Optimize Your PC by Using RegCure Pro

RegCure Pro is an advanced optimizer which is able to solve your computer system problems, remove your privacy items produced by online searches, delete junk files, uninstall malware and fix performance problems. Here shows how it works:

1. Free download RegCure Pro by clicking the below button.

2. Click the "Yes" button to enter in installation process and then follow the instruction to install the program step by step.

3. When the program is successfully installed, double click on its desktop shortcut to open it. On the Overview tab, check all the scan settings and then click on the "Click to Start Scan" button to run a system scan on your computer.

4. The first system scan will take some time, please be patient. The screenshot of the system scan progress is shown below.

5. When the system scan is done, click on "Fix All" button to completely remove all the performance problems in your computer.

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Good Luck and be safe online.


Note: SpyHunter's free version is only for malware detection. If SpyHunter detects malware on your PC, you will need to purchase SpyHunter's malware removal tool to remove the malware threats.