Wzscnet.com Virus - How to remove

Wzscnet.com is a browser hijacker developed by MGID. It seems to target male users as its promoted content is related with dating sites, where one can meet girls of Russian, Ukrainian and Oriental origin. This browser extension does also promote questionable sites regarding the topic of how to become rich.

About Wzscnet.com Browser Hijacker

When Wzscnet.com starts operating on your computer’s system, it replaces your main page, search engine and a new tab URL. This happens in a flash. Just the other day you were using Google Search or Yahoo Search, etc., and today, after you have launched your web browser, you are redirected to some strange URL with a logo resembling the colors the logotype of Google. Right below the search bar shortcuts to russianbrides.co, orientbeauties.net, profitico.net (supposedly world’s only free money system) and anastasiabeauties.com (Ukrainian girls dating site). What can a man want more? Girls and money. Even if Dan Bilzerian is your hero, Wzscnet.com is not a tool which would make your dreams come true.

The bitter truth is that Wzscnet.com is a fake search engine, which displays scam advertising content of 3rd party. When you perform a search on it, you are instantaneously redirected to the modified search results of Google Search. These results contain the scam advertising websites of 3rd party, promising you women and fortune. Such scam ads of 3rd party can even clamber up on the authentic websites rendered by Google. They have one thing in common – they are simply online frauds. You will sooner hit the jackpot by asking for alms sitting on the ground near your town hall than by clicking on the 3rd party ads displayed by Wzscnet.com extension. The following of this web traffic is not merely a fruitless attempt to get rich, these redirections are very risky as regards the security of your computer’s system.

How does Wzscnet.com Browser Hijacker Worm into Your Computer?

Wzscnet.com typically gets installed along with freeware. Unfortunately, it is impossible to specify the free software which distributes this browser hijacker. Thus, whenever you download and install any free app on your computer’s system, make sure to opt for the Advanced or Custom settings and to look through the section of additional installs. These often (well, usually, always) contain PUPs – potentially unwanted programs, which are to be picked up from the installer. In addition to that, read Privacy Policies and Terms of Use documentation. And remember that free gaming, gambling or downloading sites, as well as adult domains, are dangerous places better not to be visited at all.

Wzscnet.com hijacker belongs to the category of programs, which can be removed with such tools as Spyhunter without difficulty. These are not empty words but, rather, a fact proved by millions of happy users who have applied the previously mentioned tools to successfully eliminate hijackware from their computers’ systems. There is also a possibility to delete Wzscnet.com browser hijacker from your computer manually. For the latter purpose follow the free tutorial below.

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Manual removal of Wzscnet.com Virus

How to remove Wzscnet.com Virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.com Virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.com Virus from macOS

Delete Wzscnet.com Virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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 Wzscnet.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.