Each time when I open my browser, the page immediately goes to Onewebsearch.com? I tried to get Google back as my homepage but failed? I have tried all methods to delete it but it keeps occurring! It seems that my browser has been hijacked and controlled by something! How to get rid of Onewebsearch.com Redirect thing? Reading this article will help you find out the proper way to fix it.

General Description of Onewebsearch.com Redirect

Onewebsearch.com Redirect is a browser infection that aims at moderating and controlling user’s browser. The malware might get installed on a computer without owner`s consent when it secretly invades and can takes control of your Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome, etc. The small program seems to be a regular add-on or a plugin that you may not take it seriously, but the damages it can bring to your computer is more than what you think. The hijacker ruin the navigation functioning of your browser so that you just can’t search information normally like usual and what you got is the page of Onewebsearch.com as the start page when you open your browser. After installed, the malware tends to promote products on the Internet by redirecting you to its advertising pages. The malware is special designed by greedy hackers who are using it as a tool to cast adverting materials and collect users’ personal information as much as possible and obviously those personal data will be used for illegal purpose and will finally bring loss to you. Thus, what you need to learn is how to delete Onewebsearch.com Redirect permanently from your computer to avoid further damages.

A Screenshot of Onewebsearch.com Hijacker

onewebsearch.com redirect

Common Signs of Onewebsearch.com Hijacker Infection

A) Unusual issues occur with problems connecting to Internet.
B) The browser hijacker can corrupt system files and modify the critical keys inside registry which can make your computer completely vulnerable and very easy to be attacked by remote hackers.
C) You are frequently being redirected to the page of Onewebsearch.com Redirect or anything related to it when surfing Internet.
D) The default homepage of your browser has been secretly changed to suspicious sites without your permission.
E?You are getting pestered pop ups. The hijacker infects your registry and uses it to launch annoying pop up ads out of nowhere. Some of them can’t even be closed.
F) The rogue keeps redirecting your search results to those scam pages against your will and it also alerts that you are browsing unsafe contents so you need to install the security program from its site which is totally a fake program.
G) Onewebsearch.com Hijacker can shut down your other anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. It will also infect and corrupt your registry, leaving your computer totally unsafe.
H) The redirect virus tends to disable all the antivirus and anti-spyware programs installed on your computer and stop them from running and scanning as well.

If there’s any difficulty for you to remove Onewebsearch.com Redirect from your computer, please contact YooSecurity professionals to keep your computer safe and virus free, or you can follow our step-by-step virus removal instruction below to clean the virus yourself. (For advanced computer users)

Best Way to Remove Onewebsearch.com Hijacker Step by Step:

Firstly, please go to the folder option to show hidden files, here’s the guide:

1) Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel
2) Click on Appearance and Personalization item


3) Click on Folder Options item
4) Click on View tab in the Folder Options window


5) Check the box of Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category

Next, please follow these steps to get rid of Onewebsearch.com Redirect manually:
Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
If that didn’t work, try another way. Press the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type in task-mgr and press OK. This should start the Windows Task Manager.

Step 2: Within the Windows Task Manager click on the Processes tab. Find the process by name. random.exe related to Onewebsearch.com Redirect. Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button. This will kill the process.

Step3: Remove malicious files of Onewebsearch.com Hijacker.

C:\windows\system32\services.exe
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..s-servicecontroller_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2b54b20ee6fa07b1\services.exe
C:\Windows\Installer\{bbee3ba2-89af-930c-bb78-1fb4e17db3cc}

Step4: Delete malicious registry entries of Onewebsearch.com Redirect.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer
“EnableShellExecuteHooks”= 1 (0x1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Video Show You on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:

In conclusion, the nasty redirect virus is a serious problem that threatening the security of your personal information and your computer as well. The hijacker in particular blocks popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, if you try to use these engines to search you will find the search results are most likely being redirected those unwanted pages. The bad of the virus is more than that because it’s so tricky that it can automatically download other dangerous trojan viruses into your system to damage your computer together. So the best action to take is cleaning this malware up as soon as possible before further damages being made to your computer. In this case, how to get rid of Onewebsearch.com Redirect? Up to now, there’s no antivirus or security tools can eliminate this ransomware completely. As the only feasible and effective solution, manual removal is needed to get rid of the stubborn virus.

Kindly reminder: Manual removal needs expert skills, if you failed to remove Onewebsearch.com Redirect by yourself,please contact YooSecurity professionals to keep your computer safe and virus free.

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on January 27, 2013 12:50 pm

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