Helpful Tips to Remove OtherSearch Ads

I have detected OtherSearch Ads within my windows computer and it has annoyed me a lot. I am totally unable to browse internet normally and don't know how to remove this bug. My computer is running very slowly and it gets stuck all of a sudden. Please suggest me anything useful to get rid of this threat quickly. Thanks in advance!

Statement about OtherSearch Ads

OtherSearch Ads is a specific detection used by AVG Antivirus that can hijack your home page and take you to sites you are not interested in, allow pop up ads that are disruptive to your system and track users's internet browsing. Once inside, the virus roots deep in the system and mutates fast. In order to protect itself and further attack PC users, the virus generates malicious items to system folders which add the difficulties for antivirus software to completely remove all its harmful files. For these reasons, you'd better remove OtherSearch Ads virus without any delay.

INFECTED SYMPTOMS:

OtherSearch Ads may install other sorts of spyware/adware.
OtherSearch Ads related with Browser Hijacker virus, both of them can display tons of annoying advertisements or pop up windows.
OtherSearch Ads spreads to removable drives and other PCs quickly.
OtherSearch Ads comes from Internet or LAN network, it will also hide in USB thumb drive.
OtherSearch Ads has the capability to open up backdoors or download other Trojan, worms, rogue onto your computer.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

This adware usually comes bundled with other software or programs like PDF creators, video recordings, download managers, or game apps. It can load on your computer by default as an additional component when you install certain programs. Once infected, you may find many strange and even nasty programs on your desktop or somewhere you cannot see. To solve this problem, you should mind your software installations and choose advanced or custom installations to stop unwanted programs.

Tips: The manual removal is a task which may cost you much time and energy if you are a novice computer user. In addition, it may result in irreparable system damage provided that you wrongly remove any vital files and registry entries from your PC. Therefore, you need to download and use an advanced removal tool to automatically remove the nasty adware.A professional malware removal tool can not only remove malicious threats on your PC, but also provide long term protection to prevent your PC from potential threats in the future.

Malicious Browser Hijacker Manual Removal Guides:

OtherSearch Ads hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.

1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.

Since this tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the "Tools" menu and click the "Clear browsing data" button.

Select "Delete cookies and other site data" to delete all cookies from the list.

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window

Click the "Tools" button

Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"

Tick the "cookies" box, then click "delete"

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy

Click "Remove individual cookies"

In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"

To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie"

To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies" button

2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.

Once OtherSearch Ads redirect is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system's CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window

3. Show hidden files and folders.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab.

Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4. Remove all the malicious files related to OtherSearch Ads hijacker manually.

%AppData%Local[random].exe

C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Conclusion

OtherSearch Ads is a harmful computer infection that has been defined as an adware. It is created by cyber criminals to boost web traffic for specific sites and collect confidential information from the infected computer. It will keep showing various kinds of ads on your computer screen to draw your attention and earn your clicks. Thus, it can generate pay-per-click revenue for its creator. These annoying ads will disrupt your online activities and draw down the Internet speed. Besides generating advertisements, the adware will also steal your confidential information and send it to the cyber criminals. Therefore, you should delete get rid of OtherSearch Ads immediately to stop the unwanted ads and protect your privacy.