How to Remove SearchShock.com Redirect Virus Successfully

Hijacked by SearchShock.com? 

SearchShock.com is classified as a foxy browser hijacker which mess up your computer and which can interrupt your internet activities dreadfully. Normally, SearchShock.com can get inside your computer automatically by bundling itself with free softwares which you have installed in your computer. So if you are careless about what you have installed, you may get your computer contaminated by SearchShock.com. Once SearchShock.com has resided in your computer, it has the ability to change your default browser settings without letting you know. Besides, it also can replace your homepage and search engine with SearchShock.com. In fact, the main purpose SearchShock.com is making advertisements for some programs or websites in order to get profits. Thus, when you open your browsers, SearchShock.com jumps out instead of your favorite homepage. No matter how many times you have restored your browser settings, you can’t get your favorite homepage back. When you search for something, you always will be redirected other unwanted websites which are full of annoying pop-up ads because SearchShock.com will add lots of irrelevant sponsored links to your search results in order to achieve its promotion purpose better. 

Furthermore, SearchShock.com and follow your internet activities trace and record your online information like cookies and searching key words. It will apply your information to future marketing or it may expose your personal information to unknown third parties for making illegal money. In this case, it’s very important for you to take proper methods to remove SearchShock.com from your computer in time.

SearchShock.com Screenshot

Harmfulness of SearchShock.com

1. It changes default browser settings without letting you know.
2. It replaces your homepage and search providers automatically.
3. It redirects your search results to unwanted commercial websites.
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. 

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SearchShock.com Removal Guide

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 SearchShock.com 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 SearchShock.com 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 SearchShock.com related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.

3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find SearchShock.com 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 SearchShock.com files: 

%AppData%\random.exe

%CommonAppData%\random.exe

C:\Windows\Temp\random.exe

%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 SearchShock.com registry entries and keys. 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpCmdRun.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpUXSrv.exe

METHOD 2. Automatic Removal
To completely delete SearchShock.com, 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 SearchShock.com Removal Tool. 
                                                                                   

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