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What is ADWARE.SIDESEARCH?

ADWARE.SIDESEARCH usually infiltrates your computer while being downloaded in a bundle with a popular hacked programs or while being included in downloaded file with a bunch of other trojans.

ADWARE.SIDESEARCH causes the great problems for you, such as replacing your browser starting page with malicious one, browser search redirecting, changing security settings and allowing popup advertisements to show up.

ADWARE.SIDESEARCH virus accomplishes this tasks by registering virus process in startup or by automatically launching malicious sites.

How to remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

You can see ADWARE.SIDESEARCH at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to ADWARE.SIDESEARCH in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains ADWARE.SIDESEARCH in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.

Delete any task related to ADWARE.SIDESEARCH. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from ADWARE.SIDESEARCH virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains ADWARE.SIDESEARCH.

STEP 7: Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.
So i know the better way to do the same thing without afraid of miss something.

How to easily and completely remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH redirect?

Just try to use UnHackMe from Greatis Software.

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STEP 3: Remove ADWARE.SIDESEARCH virus (3 minutes)

So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
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Written by NightWatcher

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