Remove Yoursearching.com Redirect Virus

Posted by Miranda D.
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Jan 15, 2016
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Yoursearching.com is designed to take control of users’ browsers and affect their browsing activities. It is closely related to browser hijackers that can intercept almost popular browser hijackers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The default browser homepage can be replaced by commercial option without user’s approval. Browser homepage can be replaced to the options provided by cyber fraudster unnoticeably. Users would sadly find that they could not access to the websites they like since they are blocked by the redirect virus.

Most of time, Yoursearching.com browser threat is likely to redirect the web page to variety ad-supported sites which contain plenty of commercial ads so that it can perform its malicious activities secretly. If users are taken in by the browser hijacker, cyber criminals can make use of it to make illegal profits. While most sites provided by this browser redirect virus are so attractive, majority victims can not control themselves and click on the convincing information offered by the commercial sites and then fall into the trap. It is important to know that the information provided by Yoursearching.com is not trustworthy, users would be better be away from this site to prevent monetary and other loss.

What you should do is remove Yoursearching.com virus from the system. Most users consider the hijacker is just a harmless domain, so they leave the threat on their PCs as long as they don’t click on those ads links or poop-ups of the redirect virus they won’t be in trouble But the truth is precisely the opposite. The system has been already under the total permanent control of this threat since the computer is compromised. The system functioning can be overwritten greatly and the users usually discover more and more malware name listed on system security scan results. Under the circumstances, the additional Trojans, adware and other threats will take up a lot of system resources, drastically slowing down the computer performance and speed. If this redirect virus can not be removed completely, it will be in a very complicated status which makes PC users annoyed. The best solution is to remove Yoursearching.com virus immediately and then restore the system settings in a timely manner.

How to Remove Yoursearching.com Redirect Virus Completely

1. Stop running processes related to this redirect virus.
a: When the Windows Task manager appears, switch to Processes tab.
b: Find out and select the processes related to the virus by name random.exe, and click on the “End process” button.
Remove the redirect virus from Internet Explorer:
a: Start IE, go to Tools and select Internet Options.
b: Find General section, remove Yoursearching.com address as a home page.
c: Then go to Search section, find Settings button and choose Manage Add-ons
d: Erase the redirect and after the action, close Manage Add-ons

2. Remove the redirect virus from Mozilla Firefox.
a: Open Mozilla Firefox browser, click on tools and go to Options.
b: Switch to General tab, remove Yoursearching.com address as a startup site.
c: Then, go to: Firefox -> Add-ons -> Add-ons Manager -> Remove.
d: In the Search list, select Manage Search Engines and erase this redirect and choose OK

3. Remove the redirect virus from Google Chrome.
a: Open Google Chrome and navigate to Settings tab and Set pages.
b: Erase Yoursearching.com which was seta as the startup site and choose OK
c: Find Manage search engines and here, erase this redirect.
d: Press on OK, and restart Google Chrome.

4. Delete all registry files created by this redirect virus.
a. While the Registry Editor is opened, search for the registry key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Yoursearching.com.” Right-click this registry key and select “Delete.”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
b. Navigate to directory %PROGRAM_FILES%\ Yoursearching.com \ and delete the infected files manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\*.*

Conclusion

Most users may not know how and when Yoursearching.com redirect virus enter their computers. Most users’ computers are infected mainly because that they don’t do a good job of the precautionary and thus create opportunities for the redirect virus to invade their computers. Cyber criminals use this redirect virus to make profit from the na?ve victims. Thus, users should pay close attention to their computer performance and run system scan regularly for sake of preventing more damages caused by hidden viruses. Since the redirect virus often comes bundled with free third-party applications, users need for careful when they free download some programs because some freeware may be malware or embedded in suspicious applications and do harm to the computer systems once installed. Our suggestion is that, users should take some measure to prevent infection by all types of malware, and regularly run the antivirus program to scan for malware so as to make sure that their computers are safe to use. Get it and run it to protect your computer right now! 

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