Saturday, May 24, 2014

Remove Search Snacks Adware Virus in Effective Way

Introduction about Search Snacks
Search Snacks is an adware which can get inside your computer without letting you know. When you download new programs from internet, Search Snacks can hide itself in these free softwares. If you are careless during installation, your computer will probably be infected by this Search Snacks adware. So you totally can avoid this adware to some extents. The only thing you need to do is always choose customer installations and deselect options for additional unwanted applications.

Once Search Snacks resides in your computer, your computer will become a mess.  When you are browsing websites no matter what websites they are, the pop-up ads supported by Search Snacks will keep showing on your computer screen. It's useless for you to reset your browsers because this adware has puts malicious plug-ins on your browsers forcibly. Besides, by changing the settings of your browsers secretly, it can hide better in your computer without being detected or removed by antivirus programs.

Search Snacks still has the ability to open backdoor for other threats or viruses such as browser hijackers, worms, Trojans and so on. With these harmful programs in your system, your computer running speed will be dragged down dreadfully. It takes long time to run a process or open a page. Therefore, you should uninstall Search Snacks adware from your computer before bigger problems happen.
Search Snacks Screenshot 
Terrible Sides of Search Snacks
1. It changes default browser settings without letting you know.
2. It puts lots of stubborn add-ons on your browsers automatically.
3. It brings in other malicious programs in your computer.
4. It displays countless pop-up ads on your computer screen.
5. It records your internet activities traces for future marketing.
6. It can't be removed successfully by antivirus programs.
Delete Search Snacks Completely
Before the removal, please first back up your system! You should be extremely careful when deleting any file, because any mistake may lead to system crashes and other severe consequence.
METHOD 1. Manual Removal
Step One:
Click "Start" to open "Control Panel", then click "Uninstall a program". Then uninstall Search Snacks programs and other unknown programs.
Step Two: 
Remove Add-ons from browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome).
1. Internet Explorer:
Click "Tools" and then click "Manage add-ons". Find Search Snacks related extensions and other unknown add-ons in "Toolbars and Extensions" and "Disabled" them.
2. Firefox:
Click "Firefox(Tools)" and then click "Add-ons". Find Search Snacks related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.
3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find Search Snacks related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" them.
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK.
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete Search Snacks files: 
C:\Windows\Temp\random.exe
C:\Program Files\random
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all Search Snacks registry entries and keys. 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Default_Page_URL” = “http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid=”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing “NewTabPageShow” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Start Page” = “http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid=” 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes “DefaultScope” = “{33BB0A4E-99AF-4226-BDF6-49120163DE86}”
 
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal
To completely delete Search Snacks, you need to know that the manual removal above may not be able to remove virus  completely, because the creators of virus are always updating the virus version.Besides,any tiny mistake during the manual removal process may lead to severe consequences. Therefore,to ensure a complete and safe virus removal, it’s recommended that you get rid of virus with Automatic Search Snacks Removal Tool. 
                                                                                   


    

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