Completely Uninstall Searchyu.com

Searchyu.com is a free browser add-on that claims to help you in saving the money on any product that has lowest price. The Searchyu.com redirecting virus slows down the website that loads speed remarkably. However many of the computer users do not like to keep to keep this program on the computer and consider it as an unwanted adware as because it constantly displays lots of commercial ads on their browser pages no matter how they dislike to see these ads. Moreover it installs the rogue browser extensions and toolbars without the user’s permission, then your homepage and favorite search engine that will take over by the hijackers downloaded by Searchyu.com.

 

Basically it is an adware program that is hidden in the computer system and generates ads constantly. More severely it collects your Internet data and steals your personal information. Although this program seems to be useful tool for the online shoppers but in reality after getting inside the system it starts to display tens of thousands of annoying ads windows, no matter what you do and whether you need them or not. By doing this the Searchyu.com adware program attempts to help its developers in order to collect money. Thus you need to get rid of this malicious threat as early as possible and avoid worse problems. It displays several types of ads: text links, banner ads, interstitial ads and video ads.

 

 

Completely Uninstall Searchyu.com

 

Step 1: Stop Searchyu.com relevant processes in the Windows Task Manager :

random.exe

On Windows XP

•       Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together to open Windows Task Manager ;

•       Under the Processes tab, right-click on the processes related with the virus and click End Process

On Windows 7 / Windows Vista

•       Right-click on Task Bar and click click Task Manager;

•       Under the Processes tab, right-click on the processes related with the virus and click End Process

On Windows 8 / 8.1

•       Right-click on Task Bar and click click Task Manager;

•       Under the Processes tab, right-click on the processes related with the virus and click End Process

•       Step 2: Uninstall Searchyu.com associated programs or suspicious program from Control Panel:

(Unknown free software installed recently)

Windows 8 users

•       1. Press Windows key and I key together on your keyboard to open the Settings Charm Bar:

2. Click Control Panel on Settings Charm Bar and then click Uninstall a program in Control Panel:

3. Find out and Uninstall associated programs from the Programs and Features list: Windows Vista and 7 users

1. Click Start button and then click Control Panel on the Start Menu:

2. Click Uninstall a program in Control Panel:

3. Find out and Uninstall associated programs from the Programs and Features list:

Windows XP users

1. Click Start button >> click Settings on Start Menu >> Click Control Panel

2. Click Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel and remove associated programs:

Step 3: Remove Searchyu.com and other suspicious add-on, toolbar, extension from IE, Firefox and Chrome.

Internet Explorer (IE)

• Open Internet Explorer, click on the “gear icon” at the top right corner, then click on “Manager add-ons”.

• At the tab of “Toolbars and Extensions”, right click on unknown and suspicious extensions like Solid Savings, and click on “Disable” to uninstall the malicious add-ons.

* Mozilla Firefox

• Click the “Tools” at the top of the Firefox window and Select Add-on

At the tab of “Extensions”, click on the “Remove” to uninstall unknown and suspicious extensions like Speed Analysis, BrowserProtect,and Webcake.

* Google Chrome

• Click to the Menu button on top right corner of Chrome >> select “Tools” and click “Extensions”;

• At the tab of “Extensions”, click on the Recycle Bin to uninstall unknown and suspicious extensions like Lucky Leap, Webcake and Searchnu.

Step 4: Set Your DNS as Google’s public DNS (8.8.8.8):

Step 5: Clear browser cookies associated with Searchyu.com:

*Google Chrome: Click on the Tools menu → select Options → Click “Under the bonnet” tab → locate “Privacy” section → browsing data” button → “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.

*Internet Explorer: Click “Tools” → Click “safety” → “delete browsing history” → Tick “cookies” box and click delete

*Firefox: Click “Tools” → Click “Options” → Click “Privacy” → Click “remove individual cookies”

Step 6: Press Windows + R on the keyboard, run msconfig, click Startup tab and disable Searchyu.com if it is there

Step 7: Show all hidden files:

On Windows XP

•       Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.

•       Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.

•       Click on the Control Panel menu option.

•       When the control panel opens click on the Appearance and Personalization link.

•       Under the Folder Options category, click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.

•       Under the Hidden files and folders section, select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.

•       Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide extensions for known file types.

•       Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

•       Press the Apply button and then the OK button.

On Windows 7 / Vista

•       Click and open Libraries

•       Under the Folder Options category of Tools , click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.

•       Under the Hidden files and folders section, select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.

•       Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide extensions for known file types.

•       Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

•       Press the Apply button and then the OK button.

 

On Windows 8 /8.1

•       Click on Windows Explorer ;

•       Click on View tab;

•       Check the “Hidden Items” box

Step 8: Delete Searchyu.com Virus associated files

%Temp%\Searchyu.com.exe

%Appdata%\Searchyu.com.reg

%Homepath%\[Random].bat

%Allusersprofile%\[Random].ini

%Localappdata%\[Random].dll

%Windir%\SysWOW64\[Random].dll

%Systemroot%\Searchyu.com\[Random].exe

%CommonProgramFiles%\Searchyu.com.ini

%Homedrive%\Searchyu.com\[Random].exe

%Windir%\System32\[Random].dll

%Systemroot%\System32\[Random].dll

%Windir%\System32\drivers\[Random].sys

Step 9: Open Registry Editor:

Method 1 (Available on Windows XP, Windows 7 /Vista, and Windows 8 /8.1):

•       Call out “Run” box by pressing “Windows” key + “R” key on your keyboard;

•       Type “Regedit” into the Run box and click OK to open Registry Editor