How to Remove Whitesearch.com Redirect

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The Whitesearch.com is a highly questionable domain. It is associated with a nasty browser hijacker. If you constantly get redirected to this website, or if it has replaced your homepage, be absolutely sure, your computer is infected. Don’t panic. We are here to help. The Whitesearch.com hijacker is a malicious program, not a virus. It can be removed completely. Yet, there is a catch. To remove it completely, you must act promptly. Let it stay and hell will rise. This app can and will cause changes to your web browser. It can replace both your homepage and default search engine. It can also corrupt search results provided by other, neutral, search engines. The malicious tool affects all installed browsers. Yes, all of them. If you have more than one installed, be absolutely sure that all of them are affected. Or, more accurately, infected. For their popularity, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge are the hijacker’s most common victims. Yet, there is no immune browser. Once installed, the Whitesearch.com hijacker will start to inject advertisements on all opened websites. Every page you visit will be covered in ad banners and in-text ads. Pop-up messages will force you to watch videos. Fake notification will try to lure into downloading malicious software. The malicious tool will redirect you to numerous dodgy websites. You won’t be able to use your computer freely. Luckily, we can help you. Follow our guide and delete the Whitesearch.com hijacker for good.

How did I get infected with?

The Whitesearch.com hijacker used trickery to lure into installing it. Of course, no one will infect their computer on purpose. Hence, its developers got creative. To spread its malicious apps, these tricksters use many distribution techniques. Torrents, spam emails, corrupted links and the bundling method are just the most common ones. Yet, these techniques have something in common. All of them rely on your carelessness and negligence. Don’t make their job easier. Be vigilant instead. When installing a program, always opt for Advanced/Custom option. It can be a button or tab. Use it. Only under it can you see all additional apps that are about to be installed. Most PC users run through the installation process. Don’t be one of them. This is your computer. Its security is your responsibility. Read the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreement. Yes, we know how annoying and time-consuming this step might be. Yet, it is the only way you can spot breaches. If you think that there is something wrong, there probably is a good reason for that. Abort the installation. One can never be too careful nowadays. The Internet is bursting with dangerous parasites. You can never know where one might strike from. Stay on the safe side. Install only the programs you trust.

Why is this dangerous?

The Whitesearch.com is in no way safe. The malicious application spies on you. It sells the collected data to third parties. You may not believe it at first, but there are many potential buyers. They range from desperate marketing agents to dangerous hackers. Oh, yes. That is right. Hackers are interested in your data. The hijacker can, after all, steal information such as your usernames, passwords and email addresses. If you use your PC to pay the bills or to make an online purchase, the furtive app will record your billing address and credit card details. Can you imagine what may happen if a hacker buys that information? The consequences will be devastating. Refrain yourself from online purchases while this app remains on board. You should do it not just because of the app spying on you. You should do because the hijacker is paid to redirect you to shady and often fake web stores. This malicious program employs a pay-per-click scheme. For every ad you click on, the people behind the hijacker will be paid. The malicious utility doesn’t distinguish between shady and legit websites. Crooks often get an advantage of the situation. Dodgy websites pay hefty sums for their links to be displayed at the top. The hijacker will also redirect you automatically to questionable websites. You can’t trust anything you see on your screen. Do yourself a favor. Remove this intruder ASAP!

How to Remove Whitesearch.com virus

The Whitesearch.com infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Whitesearch.com 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.

WARNING! Stopping the wrong file or deleting the wrong registry key may damage your system irreversibly.
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STEP 1: Track down Whitesearch.com related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Whitesearch.com startup location

STEP 3: Delete Whitesearch.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Whitesearch.com related processes in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Whitesearch.com startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Whitesearch.com virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[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: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Whitesearch.com traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Whitesearch.com by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Whitesearch.com

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Whitesearch.com, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Whitesearch.com argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Whitesearch.com Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your whole system or network and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.