Start.search.us.com - How to remove

Start.search.us.com is one more website that appears on your system out of nowhere, replacing your homepage and search provider. The website claims to be a search engine and tries to make you use it instead of Google, Bing, Yahoo or other popular ones. The program enters random systems using bundling methods. Basically, it comes together will freeware applications that you are downloading by yourself, and it’s very likely that you will not notice Start.search.us.com infiltrating at the same time.

You should know that this kind of programs are not very safe to keep on your system. First of all, they cause lots of redirects to unknown websites and also the search engine that it offers doesn’t work properly. You search results will be based on sponsored websites as Start.search.us.com is seeking to increase traffic to few pages. What is more, the program tries to collect information about your browsing activities and later use this for marketing purposes.

If you have noticed Start.search.us.com on your computer you shouldn’t just ignore it. It is obvious that with time you will get very annoying by this application. However, you shouldn’t use it not even once if you care about you computer’s protection. Remove Start.search.us.com from your system the first time you see it on your computer. We highly recommend scanning your computer with a reputable antispyware program to make sure you don’t leave any malicious programs there.  Below you can see a full removal guide of Start.search.us.com hijacker.

Go to Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstall it from there. It is important that you remove all other programs installed with the hijacker, as some of them might redownload or reset back browser settings. Scan with Spyhunter as it identifies such programs quite well. You should also check browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you do not see Start.search.us.com listed, you should use antimalware tools like Spyhunter or Adwcleaner  and scan your computer with it. Uninstalling the program from your computer doesn’t change your search providers, it only stops ads appearing on your computer. You will have to do it manually by yourself. Depending on the browser you are using, follow the instructions below:

On Internet explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box.
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search Providers, on IE7 click Change Search Defaults.
3. Remove Start.search.us.com from the list.

On Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page.
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.

On Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from list.
5. Go back to Settings. On Startup choose Open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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