Like istart123.com virus and Astromenda search virus, SearchAmong.com is a malicious browser hijacker that takes over the default homepage and search engine. It is mainly created to promote certain websites and products and gain illegal income. Your PC would catch this malware if you open spam email attachments, visit unsafe websites or download unverified free programs.
SearchAmong.com hijacker is able to get installed in the target system without any approval. After then, it modifies the browser settings stealthily and sets itself as the default home page. Then you will be forced to use SearchAmong.com to make searches. But you’ll find that lots of sponsored links are in the front of the search results. Meanwhile, your click on any search results could be redirected to commercial websites that contain tons of various products. In addition, SearchAmong.com browser hijacker would redirect your new tabs or suspicious web pages as well. It takes up high system resources when running in the background. The whole PC will perform much slowly then. On the other hand, SearchAmong.com redirect virus changes the system registry and makes itself run along with the Operating System. It can communicate with the remote hackers to download files to do instant updates so as not to be detected and deleted. However, SearchAmong.com hijacker carries out many malicious activities and will disrupt your work on the computer greatly. Hence, it’s wise to remove it as fast as possible.
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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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 SearchAmong.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 SearchAmong.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 SearchAmong.com related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.
3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find SearchAmong.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 SearchAmong.com files:
%Windows%\System32\Drivers\random.sys
%Desktop%\random.lnk
%AppData%\result.db
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all SearchAmong.com registry entries and keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing “NewTabPageShow” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
“Start Page”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\supWPM
To completely delete SearchAmong.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 SearchAmong.com Removal Tool.
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