Ooxxsearch.com Removal Guide

Perhaps Ooxxsearch.com sounds like the next best search engine out there, but we beg to differ. If you notice that your default homepage has been changed to Ooxxsearch.com, then it means that you have been infected with malware. This type of computer infection is called browser hijacker, and this type of malware has been designed to modify browser settings behind your back. Rather than being extremely dangerous by itself, this infection could be easily exploited by cyber criminals for a variety of illegal activity, so the sooner you remove Ooxxsearch.com from your computer, the better. Just do not sit there and wait until it is too late to do anything about it.

Our security researchers suggest that this search engine is not fully active as of yet, but considering the family of browser hijackers it comes from, you can be sure that sooner or later it will start terrorizing users across the blow. Ooxxsearch.com is a direct clone of Search2000s.com, Didisearch.com, Universalsearches.com, and so on. If you were to check each and every domain, you would see that they have an identical design, and so you could expect them all to exhibit the same behavioral patterns. Therefore, we can already foresee how Ooxxsearch.com will spread and what kind of implications it will have on your computer’s security.

For instance, it is more than obvious that this browser hijacker will be distributed in software bundles. At the same time, you can be sure that Ooxxsearch.com will be just one of the many unwanted applications installed on your computer. Consequently, you should exercise caution when you download freeware from unfamiliar websites. It might seem really convenient that you can find the same program that you need on numerous web pages, but please be careful when you decide to download some application from a third party source because it could lead to adware and browser hijacker installation.

Once this infection enters your computer, it will modify your browser settings without even notifying you, and the next time you open your browser, you will land on Ooxxsearch.com. Some users may not even notice that something is wrong because this page looks very much like a decent search engine. However, the moment you perform a web search or start browsing the web, all the information about what websites you visit will be stored via tracking cookies, and the browser hijacker will be able to process this data to target custom advertisements at you.

For example, sometimes there might outgoing links injected in between search results, and if you click any of them accidentally, you could access a commercial website that has nothing to do with your latest search. The thing is that by redirecting you to these third party sites, Ooxxsearch.com generates financial profit, and the sites themselves experience a boost in traffic. Everyone wins, except you. At least, if it is just an annoying commercial site we are talking about, you can close it and forget about it. But, if the browser hijacker happens to be misused by malevolent third parties, then it would not be surprising if you got infected with Trojans and other malware. Also, sometimes it could result in money extortion as you could unwittingly reveal your credit card information in a financial scam.

There are many aspects you should be careful about when you get infected with a browser hijacker. The point is that you should not play with fire: remove Ooxxsearch.com from your system immediately and then run a full computer scan with the SpyHunter free scanner. You have to be sure that you have terminated all the files and entries associated with this program. Not to mention that a security application of your choice will help you safeguard your PC from other threats.

How to Delete Ooxxsearch.com

Internet Explorer

1. Press Win+R for the Run prompt to open.
2. Enter regedit into the Open box and click OK.
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
4. Right-click Start Page on the right side.
5. Choose Modify and delete Search2000s.com.
6. Type in a new homepage.
7. Click OK.

Firefox

1. Press Win+R and type %AppData%.
2. Press Enter and go to Roaming.
3. Open Mozilla and go to Firefox.
4. Select Profiles and open the unique Mozilla user ID folder.
5. Use Notepad to open the prefs.js file.
6. Delete the user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://Search2000s.com/"); string.
7. Close the file.

Chrome

1. Press Win+R and enter %AppData%.
2. Click OK and open the Local folder.
3. Open Google and go to Chrome.
4. Open User Data and double-click Default.
5. Delete the Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files.