G-search.pro Removal Guide

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G-search.pro is a new color on the palette of potentially risky search engines; therefore, you may want to learn more about it before you make the mistake of leaving it in your browsers. As a matter of fact, the only likely way for you to find this infection in your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers is to install it via a free software bundle. This means that it is possible that this threat is not the only one on your system right now. Owing to its characteristics and functioning, we have labeled it as a browser hijacker. This malware infection is capable of setting itself as your home page in the affected browsers. But since it has a simple and clean look, you may not even notice the change. And, that would be unfortunate since this hijacker may introduce you to unreliable third-party content through the search results it presents to you. We believe that it is important that you do not keep any questionable tools and applications on board if you plan to keep your virtual world safe. Therefore, we advise you to remove G-search.pro from your browsers as the first step. Please read our full report if you would like to know more about this threat and how you could avoid similar ones in the future.

Although our research cannot confirm yet but it is most likely that this browser hijacker is spread via free software bundles just like most of its peers. Getting infected with such malware is quite general because inexperienced users can easily click on content they had better not. It is easier to land on, for example, unfamiliar suspicious file-sharing websites than you would think. You may want to download a new free application or a movie file and look for it on the web. However, even reputable search engines cannot filter out all malicious file-sharing sites. Therefore, you may end up with a search results page filled with fake and malicious torrent and freeware sites that offer you the file you want. The problem is that whatever you will download from shady sites will not be a stand-alone installer or file; it is more likely that you will download bundled programs. Unfortunately, this bundle could contain several malware threats on top of your target file. Generally, adware programs, browser hijackers, Trojans, fake alerts, and potentially unwanted programs are the most frequent travelers of such a package. So when you delete G-search.pro from your computer, you need to keep in mind that this could be only the first step.

It is also possible though that your computer was previously infected with adware or other malware that is capable of displaying unsafe third-party ads and links, such as a browser hijacker. If so, you are never actually safe going online because even legitimate content could turn into a trap and redirect you to malicious pages or drop infections onto your computer. We hope that you see now why it is so vital that you keep your system secure if you do not want to risk damaging your files, losing important data, or giving access to your system for cyber criminals. We recommend that if you see this hijacker on board, you do not stop until the last one of the infections is gone. But first, you should take care of removing G-search.pro.

As we have already mentioned, this browser hijacker looks totally authentic at first sight; just a simple, regular search engine. But what you may not realize is that this hijacker can spy on you and collect information about you that can be shared with third parties. Of course, originally this kind of information collection was meant to be a useful thing, i.e., to present users with customized content, such as advertising. Unfortunately, cyber criminals also recognized a huge potential in this and started to inject their own ads and links taking advantage of such low-security tools as this search engine. This browser hijacker forwards your searches to a Russian search engine called Rambler (nova.rambler.ru). However, the results you will see there could be modified and include questionable third-party ads and links coming from this infection. This is why clicking on any content on the results page could be risky if not dangerous. It is yet another way for you to infect your computer with another hijacker or simply get redirected to a fake alert site or any other malicious pages. What you may not be aware of is that cyber criminals set up fake online shops and other sites to trick you into revealing your credit card, banking, and personal details so that they can steal money from you and also use your details to commit further online crimes. This is the main reason why you should take even this infection seriously if you do not want any complications in the future. We believe that you should delete G-search.pro immediately as a start in your endeavor to restore the security of your virtual world.

It seems that this infection only affects your home page settings in your browsers; therefore, it should be sufficient for you to restore these settings. Please follow our guide below if you are not familiar with this process. We believe that you can easily remove G-search.pro even if you are not an experienced computer user. The whole process should not take more than a couple of minutes. Keep in mind though that you need to hunt down all other potential threat sources too if you want to use a secure computer. If this were to exceed your IT skills, we suggest that you obtain a trustworthy malware removal application, such as SpyHunter. This security software should provide your PC perfect protection from all known malware infections if it is kept updated and active.

Remove G-search.pro from browsers

Internet Explorer

  1. Press Win+Q and enter regedit. Press Enter.
  2. Modify the value data of “http://G-search.pro” with a URL you prefer in these registry keys:
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page (64-bit)
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
  3. Exit the editor.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Press Win+E.
  2. Open the “%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user ID}” directory.
  3. Edit the prefs.js file in a text editor (e.g., Notepad).
  4. Restore the user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://G-search.pro/") string with a home page URL address you prefer.

Google Chrome

  1. Press Win+E.
  2. Open the “%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default” directory.
  3. Bin Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files
  4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
Download Remover for G-search.pro *
*SpyHunter scanner, published on this site, is intended to be used only as a detection tool. To use the removal functionality, you will need to purchase the full version of SpyHunter.

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