Doko-search.com virus - How to remove

Doko-search.com virus is a browser hijacker that can infiltrate your web browser. Most of the time, it comes bundled with various freeware. The program changes your homepage and default search engine to Doko-search.com, which interferes with your normal browsing activity. Although the website is not malicious, it causes random redirections to unwanted pages and shows irrelevant results.

Doko-search.com short description:

Type of threat	Potentially unwanted program, browser hijacker, adware.
How Doko-search.com hijacks a browser	Downloaded with a free program (bundler), installed as an optional offer.
Problems and issues	Too many ads, a lot of irrelevant results, not enough functions for filtering and specifying results.
How to get rid of Doko-search.com	Uninstall unwanted and suspicious programs and browser extensions, use an antivirus program, like SpyHunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others.

Problems with Doko-search.com

It might be bad enough that Doko-search.com is made by Babylon Ltd – the company responsible for many hijackers. But Doko-search.com can be shown to be unwanted on its own merits.

Doko-search.com is a huge time-waster: its results page has a ton of unrelated ads, including adult sites, and a lot of results in irrelevant languages. Plus, it lacks a lot of features that modern search engines should have, such as filtering results by date or quick access to your email account. Although, if you click around, Doko-search.com quickly opens Yahoo, which is a more competent site.

One of the purposes of the Doko-search.com virus is to collect information about you, your search queries, and your browsing habits. This data can be useful for marketing campaigns in the future, for example, to display targeted ads on your computer. In this sense, Doko-search.com is no different than other hijackers, like Qvo6, Ixquick.com, Info.com, and others.

So it’s not surprising that, if you make a search using Doko-search.com, the results include lots of advertising links in front of relevant search results – more ads than most normal search engines usually show. Doko-search.com’s creators earn money for every user redirected to one of the promoted websites. So basically, every time you click on these links, you will be increasing the traffic of this particular site and benefitting the developers of the Doko-search.com virus. In return, you get to use a pretty terrible search engine.

How to remove the Doko-search.com virus

It is not easy to get rid of programs like Doko-search.com from your browser. The usual removal of the add-on from your system may not solve all the problems. Doko-search.com will still remain as your main search provider and a homepage on your browser, probably. This can be fixed by changing browser settings.

It is possible to avoid Doko-search.com and similar hijackers’ infiltration into your browsers. Like many other unwanted applications, Doko-search.com comes bundled with free programs from the Internet, especially ones distributed on shady websites.

Every time you are installing something, pay attention to its installation steps. Offers to change your search engine, “enhance” your new tab page, or add features to your browser should be a red flag. These warnings are checked by default, so take care to uncheck them before pressing “Next” or “Continue”.  This way, you will be able to filter out any additional tools that would be added by default and deselect the installation of Doko-search.com or similar unwanted programs.

To remove the Doko-search.com virus, first of all, you will have to delete it and all related programs from the Control panel if you’re on Windows or your Applications folder if you’re on MacOS. Also, remove any suspicious browser plugins. It is recommended to uninstall ALL the applications added on the same date when Doko-search.com appeared in your browser. Some versions of this virus install software that blocks browser settings from changing to the ones you want to have. To identify them, scanning with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for MacOS, or another reputable antispyware tool would be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.

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How to remove Doko-search.com virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Doko-search.com virus install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Doko-search.com virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Doko-search.com virus easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Doko-search.com virus from macOS

Delete Doko-search.com virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Doko-search.com virus app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Doko-search.com virus from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Doko-search.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Doko-search.com virus from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Doko-search.com virus related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Doko-search.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Doko-search.com virus from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Doko-search.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Doko-search.com virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Doko-search.com virus and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Doko-search.com virus, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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