Remove Shield Safe Search (Virus Removal)

Can’t Remove Shield Safe Search? This page includes detailed Shield Safe Search Removal instructions!

This program’s developers are really trying their best to convince you Shield Safe Search is something you need. Why would you need a virus, though? Despite being presented as a rather useful online application, behind Shield Safe Search’s harmless facade lies a nasty PUP (potentially unwanted program). Hackers rarely tend to tell the truth about the malware they develop. That is the exact case with Shield Safe Search as well. Developed by Tightrope Interactive, this PUP is supposed to protect you from parasites while surfing the Web. However, being a parasite itself, Shield Safe Search obviously won’t protect you from anything. The only reason why it’s currently on your PC system is to help hackers gain dubious revenue online. In order to do so, the virus starts generating pop-ups. All types pf pop-ups. Get yourself prepared to be seeing a never-ending pile of discounts, coupons, various product deals in various shapes, product offers, price comparisons, “best prices”, etc. on every single website you visit. When you click any of these commercials, crooks gain profit. Simple as that. Thanks to the dubious pay-per-click mechanism, cyber criminals successfully make money out of bombarding you with pop-ups. And that’s not even the worst part. As you could imagine, the Shield Safe Search ads are incredibly unreliable as the virus generates both perfectly safe and corrupted links. There’s absolutely no telling which is which unless you click but is clicking a risk you’re willing to take? You might end up on malicious websites full of malware and before you know it, your machine will be infected even further. To prevent such an aggravating scenario, stay away from the ads. These are not only very annoying, utterly useless and intrusive but dangerous as well. Shield Safe Search stubbornly redirects you to unknown (and also unsafe) websites. This is yet another way for crooks to gain illegitimate profit. You’re basically becoming a sponsor of hackers just by keeping the virus on board; our advice is to uninstall it ASAP. There’s nothing to lose.  In addition, Shield Safe Search slows down the overall PC speed and causes your browsers to often crash or freeze. It also serves as a back door to malware. To top it all, Shield Safe Search spies on your browsing-related activities so hackers could sell your personal data later on. Your IP addresses, browsing history, search queries, email addresses, passwords and usernames, etc. – all of this gets monitored and sent to crooks. As you could imagine, your privacy ends up being seriously jeopardized. To sum up, Shield Safe Search is extremely problematic and has to be deleted on the spot.

How did I get infected with Shield Safe Search?

Well, you probably clicked something open that you should have ignored. For example, many parasites travel the Web via spam email-attachments or spam messages from unknown senders. A rule of thumb for the future – always keep an eye out for potential threats when you receive such questionable messages in your Inbox. Remember that hackers could be very deceitful and cunning when it comes to spreading parasites online. It’s your responsibility and yours only to outwit them. Shield Safe Search might have slithered itself on board with the help of bundled freeware/shareware. This is one of the most popular infiltration techniques at the moment and it’s so impressively effective that hackers don’t seem to be giving it up anytime soon. To protect your PC, opt for the Custom or Advanced option in the Setup Wizard. Skipping installation steps would be a mistake and you know that; take your time while installing programs. You won’t regret it.

Why is Shield Safe Search dangerous?

At the end of the day, Shield Safe Search is a cyber parasite; it’s dangerous by default. As we mentioned already, this program was developed solely so hackers could become a little but richer at your expense. Keep in mind that none of the commercials on your PC screen is safe. The pop-ups were never meant to save you time and/or money while shipping online; they only aim for generating web traffic. Shield Safe Search installs a browser extension without any permission or authorization of yours. That is because your entire browsing experience is no longer up to you. It’s up to crooks. With Shield Safe Search’s malicious plugin controlling all your browsers, you will be seeing pop-ups on a daily basis. There’s no escaping the PUP’s aggressive shenanigans so don’t let this pest harass you. It holds numerous risks for your security so do the right thing and get rid of the virus. To delete this sneaky infection manually, please follow the detailed removal guide you’ll find down below.

How Can I Remove Shield Safe Search?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Shield Safe Search infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

• Open your task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Locate the process of fileopenerpro.exe and kill it

• Open your windows registry editor by typing”regedit” in the windows search box

Navigate to (Depending on your OS version)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

and delete the display Name: FileOpenerPro

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Shield Safe Search program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. Review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.

Navigate to C:/Program Files and delete FileOpenerPro folder. Double check with any antimalware program for any leftovers. Keep your software up-to date!