How to Remove My Search Dock Effectively - Removal Guide

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Mar 1, 2016
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Information About My Search Dock

My Search Dock is a categorized as an unwanted unwanted program which can attack the vulnerable computer terribly. Once installed successfully on your computer, it displays endless pop-up ads or banners that attempt to reveal online saving deals or coupons for online shopping. So far, this adware is found to change the browser settings, display coupons, deals and other shopping ads and increase web traffic and improve relevant websites' rankings and so on once it gets installed on a computer.

My Search Dock adware can get installed on many popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Once infected, it will deliver numerous ads on the affected computer screen. You may see the ads brought by the adware including banner ads, video ads, pop-up ads, sponsored links, pop-uders or interstitial ads, etc.

If you let this My Search Dock program on your computer and use it, you may agree to give your consent to display all those third party ads, and give access to third party to monitor your online browsing activities and gather your precious data stored on the browser. A majority of commercial ads will appear on all the sites you are visiting after its secret installation.

My Search Dock pretends to provide multiple search services, best deals, coupons, sponsored links and other attractive information in order to entice you to click it. Then it will have chance to sneak into your computer and steal your confidential information for illegal benefits. This adware does not belong to vicious virus but potentially unwanted, which should not be remained on the computer.

How Can You Get Infected with My Search Dock?

Generally, My Search Dock comes into your computer by bundled with applications that you can free download from the Internet; for examples, video players, download managers, and system utilities. This nasty adware seize the opportunity to install on your computer system when you download and install those free items. For example, when you download and install these free programs from Internet PC users may get My Search Dock adware and other unknown processes installed together if they just keep click on the I Agree or Accept button during the whole installation setup.

Manually Remove My Search Dock Adware

As we mentioned above, My Search Dock belongs to a high-risk PUP program. You'd better erase it without any delay once the computer is attacked by this adware. Here is the manual guide that you can follow.

Step1: Uninstall My Search Dock from the Control Panel.
Windows 7/Vista
Open the Start Menu and navigate to Control Panel.
Move the mouse pointer down to Uninstall a Program, and click it.
Find the adware program, and then click Uninstall.
Windows 8
Go to Start Menu, move the mouse pointer to Control Panel, and click it.
Enter programs and features in the search box, and then tap Programs and Features.
Tap Suspicious Program, and then click Uninstall.

Step2: Remove My Search Dock related plug-in, toolbar, add-on, extension from browsers.

Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer, Go to Tools> Manage Add-ons >>select Toolbars and Extensions, disable the adware related extensions and any other unknown add-ons.
Mozilla Firefox:
Open Mozilla Firefox. Go to Tools → Add-ons. Select Extensions. Choose the suspicious program and click on Disable or Remove button to remove it.
Google Chrome:
Open Google Chrome, click on Chrome menu button. Go to Tools → Extensions, select the unwanted extension and click trashcan icon to remove it.

Note: Computer knowledge is necessary during the removal process. We don't recommend using the manual removal method, if you are not experienced in computer operation. Any mistake during removal process may lead to a very complicated situation on your PC. In addition, the adware can retune if you can not remove it completely. Thus, a professional removal tool should be the best choice for most PC users

Guide to Remove My Search Dock Automatically

You can remove My Search Dock automatically by means of a professional malware removal tool It can also provide real time protection to protect your PC from other threats on the computer.

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