Google
Chrome get infected by many virus or Trojan even the malware can get installed
without your knowledge. One new malware that is affected Google chrome is chromesearch.club
which will capture the address bar of your Google chrome and direct searches
made from the address bar would be directed through chromesearch.club. eg below
is sample search that is intermididate and caused by malware chromesearch.club.
https://chromesearch.club/search/?q=test&uid=qTO6G2jchxlsv6NWsibP3TlSYmVrItLW4te4w0UfvVXlDfp9uHMCkw5nq3s%2FL%2FyMVYsDJG7FDILmHe%2F8UqX0BLLK1kqAyjI%3D&pid=fob
This
can be risky for your chrome and also the searches you make can easily be
tracked and stored by hackers using this malware. It is always recommended to
get rid of such viruses and malwares. To remove this virus users often makes
mistakes by downloading unknown publishers anti viruses, which in fact it self
contains many hidden virus and similar virus.
To remove chromesearch.club from your chrome address bar search result it is recommended
to follow these steps:
1.
Open Google Chrome
2.
Go to settings by clicking at top right corner
three dots
3.
Click on “Manage search engines”
4.
You can directly type chrome://settings/searchEngines
to open settings
5.
Now
you should find chromesearch as default search engine.
6.
Replace
it by changing default search engine to Google.
Please not is very likely that you may not be able to select any other search engine as the virus may have updated Chrome policy.
1. Download Chrome policy remover.
2 Right click on downloaded file and click on Run as administrator
This should update all chrome policy setting and you should be able to change default search engine now
Please not is very likely that you may not be able to select any other search engine as the virus may have updated Chrome policy.
If you are not able to change default search engine in Chrome Please follow the steps:
2 Right click on downloaded file and click on Run as administrator
This should update all chrome policy setting and you should be able to change default search engine now
Hope
this helps to remove chromesearch malware from your PC.
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