Remove search.greatsocialsearch.com Forever

Posted by Britt Duncan - May 27, 2016

search.greatsocialsearch.com is another fake search engine. It is related to a browser hijacker. Instead of performing as a decent search engine, search.greatsocialsearch.com just keeps redirecting your web browser to suspicious websites so as to promote some fake ads and pop-ups. When this browser hijacker enters your machine, it alters your current homepage to search.greatsocialsearch.com immediately. After that you cannot get the current homepage back anymore unless you can get rid of search.greatsocialsearch.com from your system completely.

Moreover, it also adds some malicious toolbars and extensions to Google Chrome and other using browsers. As a result, no matter you open which browsers, this browser hijacker can collect your browsing information for displaying many related ads to you. That is to say, in addition to being redirecting to search.greatsocialsearch.com and random websites, you will also receive many unwanted advertisements. Both methods can help search.greatsocialsearch.com increase the web traffic and make money for the producers of this browser hijacker. All in all, search.greatsocialsearch.com is very suspicious and dangerous. Please get rid of it from your homepage and uninstall unwanted toolbars now.

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search.greatsocialsearch.com Virus Is a Big Trouble :

1. It is a risky Trojan virus that penetrates into your system secretly;
2. It adds harmful files or scripts to major part of the system;
3. It could cut off the access to the installed antivirus software;
4. It may bring in spyware or other privacy-invasive malware;
5. It keeps mutating and updating all the time;
6. It steals your privacy and compromises your security.

search.greatsocialsearch.com Virus Manual Removal Guide

search.greatsocialsearch.com redirect virus often comes into a target computer together with other online freeware. It is capable of modifying some default browser settings. Any slight mistake may cause more damage. Therefore, extra attention should be attached to the manual removal process.

1: Examine local LAN settings.

a. Click Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Internet Options.

b. Move to Connections tab and click LAN settings button.

c. At Proxy server session, unselect “Use a proxy server for your LAN (these settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections)” and click OK.

2: Examine DNS settings.

a. Click Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Local Area Connection.

b. At Local Area Connection Status window, click Properties.

c. Select Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IP V6) and click Properties. At the pop-up window, select Obtain DNS server address automatically and click OK to apply the change.

3: Examine Windows HOSTS file.

a. Double click My Computer. Put in C:WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc at the address bar and hit Enter.

b. Right click on hosts file and open it with Notepad.

c. The hosts file should be “127.0.0.1 localhost” in Windows XP and “127.0.0.1 localhost ::1” in Windows Vista/7. Remove extra files and save changes.

4: Delete harmful browser add-ons.

a. Click Start Control Panel Network and Internet Manage browser add-ons.

b. Delete all futile browser add-ons added by search.greatsocialsearch.com Virus.

5: Restart the computer normally to apply all changes.

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