How to Immediately Remove Search Voyage?

Posted by Dony Done
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Oct 20, 2016
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The Search Voyage redirect hijacked my Chrome browser and corrupted my computer terribly. It caused my computer to be extremely slow. Every time I searched the web, I was redirected to unwanted web pages and ended up with lots of random pop-up ads or messages. Why can't my anti-virus software pick up this browser hijacker as expected? How can I clean out the browser redirect from my computer safely? I really need your help with the redirect removal.

Search Voyage INTRODUCTION:

Search Voyage has been classified as a risky browser hijacker infection, which can be detected by some reputable antivirus program after it is installed on the system. However, it turns out to be a malicious website that displays annoying advertisements and suspicious links. Once Search Voyage settles down on your machine, it will hijack your entire search. Once Search Voyage gets inside your machine, it will make troubles to disturb your Internet activities.

In reality, Search Voyage is created by cyber criminals to perform malicious activities on the target machines. In this way, it can force you to browse on it repeatedly. Search Voyage may also generate many annoying ads on the screen to mess up your browsing activities. Moreover, this infection is able to hijack your search results to some malicious websites randomly when you are searching for something on the Internet. What you ought to do now is to remove Search Voyage virus from your browser immediately.

Search Voyage INTRODUCTION:

Search Voyage can change your default DNS configuration and block you accessing your favorite sites.
Search Voyage always redirects you to malicious webpage.
Search Voyage can turn your computer to run slowly and pose sudden death.
You need to take a long time to open a webpage than before.
Searches are redirected or your homepage and desktop are settings are changed. This is an obvious symptom of this infection.

How to prevent such browser hijackers?

Most computer users don't know where the redirect virus came from, for the threat is able to spread via various ways. People may pay no attention to some changes in their computer systems when they download and install a new free program from the Internet. Commonly, users take no notice of the installations of new programs and choose the recommended installation to unwarily allow additional unwanted programs to sneak into their machines. Freeware and shareware applications are the most popular carriers of PUPs or malware. Once downloaded and installed on the computer, those potentially unwanted programs or malicious programs may bring about great damages to the PC.

Thus, to prevent the cyber threats like this browser hijacker, please download and install programs from official sites or reliable websites. Choose the custom install rather than the recommended install. Keep an advanced antivirus program running in the system and don't open links or files that from unidentified sources.

Note: If you are not a computer expert and have no idea how to perform the removal, we suggest you use the professional removal tools to help you get rid of Search Voyage completely from your computer.

Remove Search Voyage automatically

Manual Search Voyage instructions are intended for experienced Windows users, who understand the dangers of deleting the wrong programs and reconfiguring Windows systems incorrectly. If you are not confident with your knowledge, please use the automatic removal instructions below. Note that you can use a free computer scanner SpyHunter to inspect your PC. (Only Scan is Free) After scan you could search and remove whitesmoke files manually.
1. Please click the following icon to download SpyHunter.

2. Click Save File.

3. Double-click on the downloaded file, select Run and complete the installation.
4. Hit the Scan Computer Now! Button and allow SpyHunter to detect running infections.
5. Click Fix Threats and all detected malware will be deleted in no time.

Malicious Browser Hijacker Manual Removal Guides:

Search Voyage 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 Search Voyage 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 Search Voyage 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

Suggestion:

As Search Voyage can monitor your Internet surfing to target the Websites that you log on to, and then generate automatic pop-up advertisements based on your viewing habits, you should not leave it on the computer. Once you find it on the PC, you can follow the guide mentioned above to deal with it.

To avoid being infected with by such adware, you need to be more careful when download and install new programs. Please go to the official sites or reliable websites to get the programs you want. Pay attention to the free downloads, for some of them are embedded in additional unwanted programs like Remarkit. Make sure your web browser security and computer security are up to snuff and keep your system fully patched. You can keep a good firewall and an advanced antivirus program on the PC and block the suspicious programs and protect your computer from various cyber attacks. Anyway, to form a good habit of using computer is necessary to protect your computer.

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