How to Remove Searchalgo.com (Removal Guide)

My computer has been infected by Searchalgo.com but I have no idea how to remove it. I usually set my favorite web page as default homepage as well as search engine. However, all the default settings have been changed to unknown strange website. How can I solve the problem so that my browser can work normally again? I need your help!

What is Searchalgo.com?

Searchalgo.com is a browser hijacker which appears as a legitimate search engine website to let people do a search with it or display many advertisements. It looks like a website as simple as google.com. But don’t be fooled and cheated by its look. You can also type keywords to search the relevant information. However, the search results offered by the search engine are not exactly associated with the keywords. Those irrelevant search results will redirect your browsers to some unknown websites that contain lots of advertisements. So this search engine is fake and useless. If you click on some unknown websites in the search results, many other computer infections may be downloaded. Your computer is put at great risk. For instance, some browser settings and system settings are changed and the computer security levels become lower. It is dangerous because your personal information, such as payment card details, may be stolen by some viruses when you buy something online or carry out other actions. Of course, it can also steal your personal files in your computer. Some people may get into worse condition, for instance, the virus encrypt some personal files and you can never decrypt them easily. The worst thing is that you won’t be able to open them!

Commonly, your computer gets infected with this redirect virus when you view some malicious websites. Often it goes like this: a window pops up within the webpage, suggesting you to make this website as your default homepage. If you don’t like it, you can click Cancel to refuse the quest. But sometimes you may not realize that this it is a trick and rashly click yes to accept the website being your homepage. Some redirect viruses can even infect your browsers without notice when you visit the websites that have been hacked. Some other malicious redirect virus can hijack your browser as long as you visit malicious website. You may ensure that all the websites are clean and adware- free before you visit them. Currently, you may consider eliminating the browser hijacker by the help of manual removal solution instead of utilizing the antivirus program for the virus can effectively avoid its scanner. Other system applications are also affected due to this virus. The instructions below will tell you how to remove the virus manually. Don’t ignore it, it is far more strong than you can imagine.

How To Manually Remove Searchalgo.com in Several Steps

Tips: Before you remove Searchalgo.com, you need to make a backup of the system in case you make mistakes when deleting the files and registry entries related to the redirect virus. The real difficult part is to identify the files related to the virus because the files would be randomly named. The most complicated step of the removal task is to identify the files of the virus since the files would be randomly tagged. It requires enough you to have computer skills. If you are not sure about it, using a specialized tool to deal with it is the best choice.

Step 1: Set the default homepage back

For Internet Explorer:
Click on Browser Tools
Select Manage Add-ons on the tools window
Click Search Provider
Here you can see many kinds of search engine option as Bing and Google, select your favorite one to be a default homepage.
Choose Search Results and click on Remove icon to eliminate it
Click Tools, select Internet Options and then the General tab. Here you can option a website you like and save it.
c. Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;

For Google Chrome:
Open Customize and control
Click on Settings
Select on Basic Options icon
Here you can reset your homepage (e.g.Google.com）
Once you choose a default homepage, click on Manage Search Engines and then click Google to be your default search engine.
Remove it from the browser by clicking Search Result and then the X’ mark

For Mozilla Firefox:
Click Manage Search Engine
Select Search Results and then click Remove option, click OK
Open Tools, under the General tab, set Google.com as default homepage

Step 2: Locate related files of Searchalgo.com and remove them from the computer
%AllUsersProfile%
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random letters}\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~dll

Step 3: Remove cookies on all browsers
Internet Explorer:
Click options on the browser and then choose Internet Options
Open General tab, click Delete Browsing History to remove all related cookies
Select cookies and click Delete

Firefox:
Click option
Select Privacy and then click on Remove Individual Cookies icon
Delete relevant cookies list on the box

Google Chrome:
Click option
Open Under the Bonnet tab
Select Privacy and then click Clear browsing data
Delete all cookies

Step 4: Remove malicious registry entries
Open Registry Editor on the start menu
Type in Regedit and click OK
Remove all the following registry entries
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ‘1’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ‘0’