Seektoexplore.com - How to remove

Seektoexplore.com is a nasty browser hijacker that will keep redirecting you to the site at seektoexplore.com. It’s not really difficult to tell if your computer is infected with Seektoexplore.com, because if the answer is positive, you will be randomly redirected to this website when browsing the Internet, so you will definitely notice this. In case you have seen this occurrence on any of your web browsers more than once, your computer is definitely infected and you need to take care of that. If you don’t know how to eliminate this infection from your computer, you have come to the right place. In this article we will provide you with full instructions how to get rid of a Seektoexplore.com browser hijacker.

If you want to learn more about specific features of this malicious application, just keep reading this article. In case you want to remove this infection right now, skip the text and scroll down to the end of the page – there you will find our step-by-step manual Seektoexplore.com removal guide. If you don’t have any experience in removing infections like this, we recommend to download a reliable anti-malware, such as Spyhunter or StopZilla and scan your computer with it. It will detect and eliminate the threat just in a few seconds. It will also protect your computer from similar infections in the future, so it’s worth to keep it installed.

About Seektoexplore.com browser hijacker

This malware travels bundled with other free applications that can be downloaded from the Internet, so you never know when you can get infected with Seektoexplore.com. It gets installed secretly, so you will notice it only when it’s already on your computer. Immediately after that, you will be randomly redirected to this website many times. We don’t recommend to click on any ads on that website because they can lead you to other infections as well.

The main purpose of this browser hijacker is to boost traffic to this website, so its owners can have a great traffic statistics and other parameters and sell the domain for a lot of money. At the moment Seektoexplore.com receives about 125 thousands of unique visitors a day and generates more than one thousand of US dollars a day of ads revenue. According to Alexa rankings this site is ranked 6,875 in the world wile 0.0273% of global Internet users visit it.

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How to remove Seektoexplore.com using Windows Control Panel

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

Delete Seektoexplore.com from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Seektoexplore.com 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 Seektoexplore.com 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 Seektoexplore.com, 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 Seektoexplore.com 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 Seektoexplore.com 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 Seektoexplore.com, 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 Seektoexplore.com 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 Seektoexplore.com, 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 Seektoexplore.com from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Seektoexplore.com 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 Seektoexplore.com, 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.