Onlinewebsearch.com Removal Guide

Many annoying advertisements pop up on your computer due to Onlinewebsearch.com infection? Cannot view the desired websites because Onlinewebsearch.com always redirects your websites to other unwanted ones? Onlinewebsearch.com is a redirect virus or browser hijacker designed to distribute advertisements and generate traffic. It often enters your computer system when you download spam mail attachments or free software from the infected web pages, visit malicious websites like porn-related websites or click on pop up ads or suspicious links posted at various forums. After it gets installed, it hijacks browser homepage, new tabs or results to its own page or other unknown websites every time you attempt to surf the net with the browser. It achieves this by modifying browser settings and internet settings. This redirect virus always uses its own website or other affiliated websites as advertising platforms and displays numerous of annoying advertisements, in order to lure the users into visiting the malicious websites and clicking on the pay-per-click ads. It will be very annoying to see these pop-ups every time you are browsing the Internet. Useless advertisements will not only eat up system resources, but also affect internet speed. Moreover, clicking on popup ads by this redirect virus is likely to redirect you to malicious websites which may contain other threats like Trojan or spyware. If those malicious threats are downloaded onto your computer, more trouble comes. To protect your computer system from critical situations, you need to cleanup Onlinewebsearch.com redirect virus quickly upon detection.

Onlinewebsearch.com Removal Guide

Remove all add-ons related to the redirect virus from browsers.

Internet Explorer:

Click on “Tools” and go to “Manage Add-ons”.

Disable any add-ons related to the redirect virus from the browser.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on “Tools” and navigate to “Add-ons”.

Remove/disable the all suspicious add-ons from the browser.

Google Chrome:

Click on the Wrench icon, select “Tools” and click on “Extensions”.

Remove any unknown add-ons from the browser.

Remove malicious files related to the redirect virus from the computer.

Locate the following folders, find and delete any files related to the redirect virus from the computer.

%Temp%

%AllUsersProfile%\

%Program Files%\

%AllUsersProfiles%\

%CommonAppData%\

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\

Remove registry entries injected by the redirect virus from the computer.

Click Start and go to Run. Then a box will appear. Type “regedit” into the box and press Enter. Then search for the registry entries related to the redirect virus in the Registry Editor window. Afterwards, delete all the malicious registry entries from the computer.

HKEY_CURRENT_ROOT\CLSID\[random characters]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[redirect virus name]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “DisableTaskMgr” = 1

You should back up your registry before you manually remove the redirect virus in case of data loss. If you are a novice user, and still don’t clearly know how to carry out the manual removal task, then we suggest you to use an automatic removal tool to get rid of Onlinewebsearch.com from the computer. Mighty Uninstaller is an excellent removal tool that it is able to erase all trace of the redirect virus from your computer easily. If you want to remove the nasty redirect virus with ease, you can click here to download the reliable removal tool.