How to remove Chrome Search Info fully

This brief guide will help you to get rid of annoying ads by Chrome Search Info, which started to show up in your browser. We will tell you how to remove Chrome Search Info adware from your computer and from all popular browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari.

 

Chrome Search Info adware is one of the most annoying and numerous unwanted programs that appeared in recent month. It’s smart enough to get into thousands of computers in different corners of the world and generate lots of revenue for web-criminals who developed it. Fortunately, it’s not as smart as you, and you can easily beat it, and remove it from the pc in few minutes. If you want to know how the virus got onto your device – just read further. If you know that already and want to remove a virus as soon as possible – just skip the following part and proceed to the removal section.

 

What is Chrome Search Info. Removal reasons and methods

Chrome Search Info is an advertising, tool, created to abuse the Internet-wide system of advertising cost estimating. The system is called pay-per-click, and it literally means that the advertiser pays each time when somebody clicks on his ad, placed in search results or elsewhere. As for decent ads – each click means that someone wants to buy something from the advertiser’s website, and clicks on an ad banner to get to it. In case of Chrome Search Info’s ads – each click means that someone saw an ad banner right in the center of his screen, and tried to hide it to keep working, or browsing, or watching a video. Chrome Search Info spams ads in enormous quantity to annoy you and make you click faster and more.

 

You should understand that not all Chrome Search Info’s ads are 100% fake – there might be decent ads, but you don’t care about their quality, as they’re appearing on your screen randomly. In such way scammers are attacking decent advertisers, making their budgets disappear in few hours because their ads are showed to people that don’t want their goods. Of course, victims of adware don’t care about the quality of ads that appear on their screens in great numbers – they just want to get rid of them, and we’re getting to it.

 

 

Everyone that even once had experienced a virus infection on his computer, knows that the viruses are way easier to avoid than to remove. According to this, you should know how to guard your PC against Chrome Search Info and other suchlike programs, to keep it clean and working. There are few tips that will help you do that:

 

• Most advertising programs use the method, called “bundled installation” to infect users’ computers. This method works only if a user downloads the suspicious software and installs it without any attention to details. If you will look closely on each window that appears during the installation, you will see that you can decline the installation of unwanted elements and save your computer from infection.
• Don’t open every e-mail you receive. Some emails are a scam, and if you doubt that the email is reliable – just remove it without clicking. Usually, emails are used to distribute ransomware, and if you will get one – you’ll deeply regret it.
• Don’t accept the download or installation of any program that you did not intend to install. If a banner appears on your screen out of nowhere – it’s not reliable, and most likely – viral.
• Two the most exposed to viruses programs on your computer are your browser and your AV-tool. Both of them are dealing with the unwanted software every day, and the viruses can get through your computer’s defenses if they will find a breach. Knowing this you should keep your antivirus and your browser up to date. Also, you should never turn your AV off, even if some program asks so. If it does – then it is a virus.

 

These four steps are easy to complete, but if you do so, you will see the results instantly. Don’t forget that you are the most effective antivirus, and your deeds are the first and foremost cause of infection or, contrariwise, of the good state of your device.

Chrome Search Info removal tool

Now, when you know what is Chrome Search Info and how to drive it off your PC in the future – it’s time to actually remove it from the system. This will take some time and some efforts, but you can decide, how much you’re going to spend. There are two ways: manual and automatic deletion, and both of them have their pros and cons. The worst con of a manual method is that you can’t manage too many viruses through it. You can remove one, two or three, but in most cases, the deep-rooted adware infection makes a computer so cluttered with viruses and other programs that you just can’t clean them all one by one. In such cases, there comes an automatic method. It consists of only one stage and few short steps: download an antivirus tool, install it and run a scanning process. It’s that simple, and we’re proposing you Spyhunter: an antivirus that can get rid of all viruses in few minutes, and make them never come back. If you wanna learn more about Spyhunter – just click a link below.

 

Chrome Search Info removal instructions

If you use MAC OS, follow our article: MAC adware removal.

 

 

Step 1. Remove Chrome Search Info from the system

It is an optional step, if you have no installed software with the same name, go to the next step.

Instruction for Windows XP and Windows 7

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add or Remove Programs.

2. In the Currently installed programs box, click the Chrome Search Info, and then click Change or Change/Remove.

3. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to make the changes that you want.

 

Instruction for Windows 8

1. Point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and tap Search.

2. Enter Control panel in the search box, and then click Control Panel.

3. Under View by: select Large Icons, and then click Programs and features.

4. Click the program, and then click Uninstall.

5. Follow the instructions on the screen.

 

Instruction for Windows 10

1. On the field Search Windows type 'Control Panel'

2. Click Uninstall a program

3. Select Chrome Search Info and press Uninstall

 

Instruction for Mac OS

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications

2. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash

3. Choose Finder > Empty Trash

Step 2. Check browser's shortcut

1. Right-click on shortcut

2. Select Properties

3. Check the field Target: there must be only way to your browser, e.g.:

Google Chrome: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

Mozilla Firefox: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

Internet Explorer: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

Opera: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe"

Safari: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Safari\"

Step 3. Remove Chrome Search Info from browser's settings

Instructions for Google Chrome

1. Launch Google Chrome

2. Click Menu (Customize and control Google Chrome)

3. Select Settings

4. Scroll down and click Show advanced settings...

5. Click Reset settings

Instructions for Mozilla Firefox

1. Launch Mozilla Firefox

2. Click on Help on menu bar

3. Select Troubleshooting information

4. Click Reset Firefox...

Instructions for Internet Explorer

1. Launch Internet Explorer

2. Click Tools (You can press ALT+X on the keyboard)

3. Select Internet Options

4. Select Advanced tab

5. Click Reset... button

6. Put the tick near 'Delete personal settings' and click Reset

Instructions for Opera

1. Start Opera

2. Click Menu (Customize and Control Opera)

3. Select Settings > Browser tab

4. Select On Startup - Open a specific page or set of pages - Press button "Set pages" and change Homepage to your favorite one

Instructions for Safari

1. Open Safari browser

2. Click Menu (Display a menu of General Safari Settings)

3. Select Reset Safari...

4. Click Reset

 

 

Video instruction how to remove Chrome Search Info

 

 

 

Step 4. Delete elements that would stay after Chrome Search Info deletion

1. Remove files and folders, if they stayed:

• Type Chrome Search Info in the search box
• Scroll to the bottom of the list of search results. Under Search again in, Click Computer
• Wait for the search results
• Delete items found

2. Delete registry keys

• Click the Start button
• Type Regedit.exe and press Enter
• Press Ctrl+F and type 'Chrome Search Info'
• Click 'Find Next'
• Delete the entries that were found

Step 5 (Optional). Scan the computer with antimalware scanner

• Download antivirus tool, e.g. Adwcleaner
• Press Scan button

 

 

• Press Clean button

 

 

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