How to Remove search.safefinder.com - Uninstall Safe Finder

search.safefinder.com is a nasty browser hijacker virus. Once your computer is entangled with search.safefinder.com, your browser may keep redirecting you to other pages, and crazy and annoying pop-up window may be filled with your whole screen to interrupt your browsing activities. Besides, unknown toolbar is added on your browser and doesn’t allow you to uninstall it.

Screenshot of search.safefinder.com:

Search.safefinder.com has those harmful symptoms:

1. Search.safefinder.com endangers your Internet environment by redirecting your web searches to other harmful domain which carries more threatening viruses and deceives you to download free software, videos, games and files, etc.
2. Search.safefinder.com allows remote access to compromise your computer by changing your PC system settings, registry settings and files to capture and steal your personal privacy data without any permission
3. Search.safefinder.com infects with lots of bundled malware, malicious spyware, adware parasites, and all these harmful PC threats can deep hide in your system, processes, files and folders
4. Search.safefinder.com significantly slows down your computer performance and sometimes makes system crashed randomly


Method one: Search.safefinder.com manual removal guide

Step 1: stop all the malicious processes about Search.safefinder.com
Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Or click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.

Terminate all the malicious processes of Search.safefinder.com

Step 2: disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Search.safefinder.com.
Click Start menu ; click Run; type: msconfig in the Run box; click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

 Step 3: Clean cookies
 Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options →the General tab, Delete the Cookies button can be directly seen in IE6, IE7 is to click the Delete Browsing History button then tick Cookies and click Delete.

 Firefox: Tools → Options → Privacy → Remove Individual Cookies → Delete corresponding cookies in the cookies showing box.

Opera: Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Cookies →Delete corresponding cookies in Management Cookies.

Step 4: show hidden files and folders and delete all the following files.
Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Themes, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Delete all the following files belong to Search.safefinder.com
%AppData%\<random>.exe
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 5: open Registry Editor to delete all the vicious registries as below
Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter.

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\SEAMONKEY.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe http://www.<random>.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Search_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Search Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove Search.safefinder.com with Spyhunter antivirus software

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and remove Search.safefinder.com .

 

In conlusion:  Search.safefinder.com is a big threat which cannot leave any longer in the system. When you choose the manual removal method to get rid of it, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries as Search.safefinder.com mutates frequently and uses random tiles to protect itself. If you have spent too much time in manual removing Search.safefinder.com but not make any progress, you can choose automatic method - download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here  to help you remove Search.safefinder.com completely and permanently for you.

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