How to Remove Gold-page.com Thoroughly? (Removal Guide)

Gold-page.com is a nasty redirect infection which attacks PC users' browsers, once being infected, it will modify settings on the targeted browser to change its homepage to Gold-page.com redirect site. By doing this, the redirect virus can interfere with users' browsing habits. This redirect virus has a seemingly legitimate interface which misleads most users into thinking that it is a useful website providing the search function as Google does, and some users really use the unsafe search engine to do a search, and as a result, they are constantly redirected to some suspicious websites.

The Gold-page.com redirect virus is able to keep users off the webpage they intend to visit and drive the traffic to third party websites which are all advertisements or promotional links. The threat not only hijacks the browsers, but also delivers constant pop-up ads on the target computer screen, especially when users launch some third-party applications, so as to attract users to click on those ads and have a visit. In most cases, the advertising sites are designed to promote various products or services to make money. The Gold-page.com redirect virus interferes with user's browsing activities by displaying lots of discounts, coupons, bargains and so on. So some people don't mind getting the frequent pop-up advertisements or being redirected to advertising websites.

Since Gold-page.com takes control of the browsers and modify some security settings, more and more serious computer security problems will occur. Some unwanted browser plug-ins may be installed in the affected browsers to assist in helping the browser hijacker to complete many harmful tasks. Thus, the infected browser will face a slow performance or even unexpected crash frequently. Moreover, the redirect virus may provide random links which link to malicious websites so as to invite more threats to further harm the PC. In this way, once PC users visit those malicious sites, malware, rogue program, and other infections could attack the infected browser and even the whole computer without any warning.

Guide to Manually Remove Gold-page.com Redirect Virus

Step 1 Uninstall Gold-page.com relevant programs from Control Panel
Windows 7/Vista

Open the Start Menu -> Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program-> Find dubious program -> click Uninstall.
Windows 8
Go to Start Menu-> Control Panel-> Enter programs and features in the search box-> tap Programs and Features-> Highlight target program- > Uninstall it.

Step 2 Remove malicious Extensions from Your IE/Chrome/Firefox
Google Chrome
Click Chrome Menu -> Tools -> Extensions ->Find related add-ons and delete them.
Internet Explorer

click the Tools -> click Manage add-ons->Toolbars and Extensions ->Select unwanted add-on and click Remove button.

Mozilla Firefox
Click on the menu button at the top right corner to open Menu > Add-ons > Choose related extensions ->click Disable or Remove button
 
Step 3 Repair the homepage and search engine.
Google Chrome
Go to 'Wrench or 3-Bars icon' > 'Settings' > 'Appearances'> 'Show Home button', click on the Change button to change your browser homepage.
Go to 'Wrench or 3-Bars icon' > 'settings' > 'Manage search engines.
Make google.com as your default search engine and click on the X to remove the unwanted URL.

Internet Explorer
Open IE and go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons'.
 Choose 'Search Providers' → choose the search engine you used before and make it your default search provider. Additionally, select 'Search.searchgrm.com', remove it.
Go 'Tools' → 'Internet Options' and select 'General' tab. Click 'Use default' or enter your own website name, google.com or other. Finally, click 'OK' to save the changes.

Mozilla Firefox
Go to Navigation Toolbar > click on the Manage search engines > find the unwanted search engine> Remove it then click on the OK button to save the changes.
4 Go 'Tools' → 'Options'→ 'General'. Finally, reset the startup homepage or change Gold-page.com to google.com.

Conclusion

Gold-page.com will invader the target computer by hiding in some programs, pretending as a useful item to let PC users install. In some cases, this redirect virus hides in the free applications that users have downloaded from the Internet, and automatically gets installed when users install the applications they need. Most computer users are unaware of the danger of this redirect virus and keep it on the computer for a long time, bringing many problems to their computers.

To deal with thus pesky redirect virus, users should be more cautious when browsing the Web and take measures immediately once they find their homepages are changed suddenly or new unwanted add-ons are added to the browser without permission. Under such condition, they are strongly recommended to delete such virus from their computer instantly with a practical anti-malware application or antivirus software. Then repair the browser settings and safeguard their PCs against other cyber threats. In addition, scan each downloaded file before running it on computer for security, in case of the virus or rogue software mix together with others and invade system and post threaten to computer.