How to remove thesearch.net

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How to Remove THESEARCH.NET

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• THESEARCH.NET is regarded as a harmful redirect
  virus. Cyber criminals who create this annoying
  virus spread this pest to some suspicious
  websites, email attachments, or pop-up ads.
  Hence, if you do not pay much caution when
  surfing online, it will be easy for your machine
  to get infected. After intrusion, THESEARCH.NET
  virus will carry out many vicious activities and
  gain profit for its designers. To start with, it
  adds a new entry to the system registry so that
  it can be activated every time you launch the
  workstation. Besides, THESEARCH.NET malware hides
  deep in the system and escapes from the detection
  of your installed security programs.

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• Meanwhile, it connects to the network
  automatically and downloads files to upgrade it,
  which makes it hard to completely clean up
  THESEARCH.NET virus. By making changes to the
  browser settings, this nasty redirect virus takes
  over your Internet browser. It could replace your
  original homepage and search engine without
  asking for any permission. Great changes will
  happen on your desktop.

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• For example, lots of sponsored websites are
  displayed on the search results which may be
  redirected to other unknown web pages. In
  addition, a large number of ads pop up on the
  screen randomly. Any accident click on those
  pop-ups could lead to the installation of
  additional PC viruses. Worst enough, but
  THESEARCH.NET virus might trace your online
  activities and collect your confidential
  information. Thus, it is wise to remove this foxy
  and dangerous browser hijacker virus to prevent
  further damage.

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• THESEARCH.NET is a disruptive adware which can
  make good use of the computer system resources to
  fulfill the tasks set by the developers without
  the computer users approval. Also, it gets into
  the computer system furtively. The adware is tied
  with some unknown free programs and web links.
  You should be careful of those insecure online
  resources, or you may allow the THESEARCH.NET
  adware to be installed into your computer system
  by accident. At the same time, you should pay
  attention to spam email attachments, because the
  adware can also be embedded in some suspicious
  email attachments.

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• It is designed with advanced technology by the
  developers with the purpose of making easy money.
  The adware also can occupy the web browser and
  then it drops a lot of annoying ads in the web
  browser and causes malicious web page
  redirections when you go online. Therefore, you
  are unable to surf the web normally. In addition,
  THESEARCH.NET modifies the default computer
  system settings. What is worse, the adware may
  create opportunities for other malicious software
  to access to your system and your web browsing
  activities may be recorded by it. So, removing
  the THESEARCH.NET adware is the correct thing
  that you need to do.

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• How to Remove THESEARCH.NET

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• Step 1. Reset homepage and search engine on your
  browser
• Chrome
• a) Click on Customize and control icon, select
  Settings
• b) Make google.com or any other one you like as
  your homepage
• c) Navigate to section, click Manage Search
  Engines and remove Startgo123 engine from the
  default search engines list, then click OK to
  save the changes.

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• Mozilla Firefox
• a) Click on the magnifiers icon and select
  Manage Search Engines.
• b) Choose Startgo123 from the list and click
  Remove and then OK to save changes
• c) Go to Tools and select Optional. Reset your
  homepage under the General tab

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• Internet Explorer
• a) Go to Tools and select Manage Add-on Navigate
  to Search Providers, Remove Startgo123 if it is
  there.
• b) Select Bing search engine / Google search
  engine and make it default.
• c) Go to Tools and select Internet Optional, in
  the General tab, delete the Triple URL from the
  home page text box then enter your own website,
  e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.

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• Safari
• a) Open your Safari browser from the dock.
• b) Click on Safari in the browser menu at the top
  of your screen.
• c) A drop-down menu will now appear. Choose the
  option labeled Reset Safari

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• Step 2. Uninstall hijacker search from the list
  of Programs/Applications
• Win OS
• Start gtgt Control Panel gtgt Programs gtgt Locate
  search.so-v hijacker or any suspicious program
  and uninstall
• On Mac
• Go to the Launchpad, search for the suspicious
  application, click and hold its icon with your
  mouse button to continue.

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• Step 3. Delete associated files or entries coming
  along with this bug
• On Win OS
• a) Press WinR key together to open the Run Box,
  Type Regedit to launch Registry Editor
• b) Locate the malicious entries added by this bug
  and delete them

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• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
  Explorer\TabbedBrowsing "NewTabPageShow" "1"
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
  Explorer\Main "Start Page" "
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Software
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic
  es\Wpm
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
  Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL"

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• On Mac
• Access hidden Library folder, locate junk files
  and then delete them
• a) Hold down the Option (Alt) key while looking
  at the Go menu in Finder.
• b) Delete related files.

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• You need to check numerous system folders for
  obscure files. The target files will follow this
  form Something.TheSearch.netxx
• Something is usually a meaningless string that
  could be one or any of these Kuklorest,
  Manroling, Epolife, InstallMac, Javeview,
  Otwexplain etc. And TheSearch.netx could be
  AppRemoval.plist, download.plist, ltvbit.plist,
  ltvbit.plist or others.

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