Searchcyborg.com Removal Guide

Searchcyborg.com might look like a trustworthy search engine at first sight; however, we are sure that this search provider cannot be trusted fully. In fact, we suggest that you remove it from the system completely for the sake of your system’s safety. If you have already noticed that Searchcyborg.com has replaced your homepage and search engine, you have to hurry to get rid of it. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to implement the removal of an undesirable search engine, especially when it is closely associated with a Trojan. Even though this task is really a difficult one, our specialists know how Searchcyborg.com can be removed. They are going to tell you what they know about the deletion of undesirable search engines in this article. Continue reading!

Specialists working at 411-spyware.com have thoroughly tested this search engine because they wanted to find out how it acts. The first fact researchers have found about this search engine is that it is created by the company which has released such infamous applications as One10 PC Cleaner, Junk Sweeper, and Junk Optimizer. Secondly, it is clear that this search engine is primarily aimed at users whose default browser is Internet Explorer. Even though Searchcyborg.com usually replaces homepages and search engines on Internet Explorer, specialists say that you might notice it set on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome one day too. If this ever really happens, delete Searchcyborg.com as soon as possible.

It is not advisable to keep Searchcyborg.com and use it to search for the information because this search engine is definitely not a trustworthy one. Researchers have revealed that it returns modified search results. Unfortunately, it is impossible to say which of these search results are modified, so users keep clicking on them and do not even realize that they might cause harm to their systems. It is really dangerous to click on these modified search results because you might be taken to a corrupted website instead of ending up on the website that contains information associated with the entered keyword. As you already know, Searchcyborg.com might put your system into danger. According to researchers at 411-spyware.com, there is also a possibility that this search engine will gather all the keywords you enter into the search box. In addition, it might also record your IP address and a bunch of other technical details. If you do not wish to experience serious problems associated with your privacy, you need to eliminate this search engine. You could set another reliable search engine instead of this one after you delete the hijacker from your system fully.

Users do not set Searchcyborg.com search engine themselves. Of course, it travels as a part of a browser hijacker infection; however, it is not likely that it often comes in software bundles. Our researchers can confirm that because they have observed that this search engine is usually dropped on the system by a Trojan. If you have already encountered this search engine, you might suspect that a Trojan is installed on your computer. Eliminate it from the system because it might not only download and install additional malware, but might also record personal information about you and then send it to its remote server, block programs, slow down the computer, and perform a bunch of other activities which, we are sure, you will not like. It is definitely not an easy task to protect the system from serious computer infections, which is why we suggest installing a security tool on the system. It will do everything that is necessary in order to protect your system from harm.

You will not find an uninstall entry of Searchcyborg.com in Control Panel, which means that you will not be able to delete it like a regular application. Luckily, it seems that this search engine will disappear after you reset browsers one by one. Do not forget that you have to remove the Trojan installed on your system as well – it is located in %LOCALAPPDATA% and %UserProfile%. We hope that below-provided instructions will help you to do that. If we are wrong, use an automatic malware remover SpyHunter. This tool will take care of the elimination of all the installed threats.

Delete Searchcyborg.com

Internet Explorer

1. Open your browser and tap Alt+T.
2. Select Internet Options and click on the Advanced tab.
3. Click the Reset button.
4. Mark Delete personal settings.
5. Click Reset.

Google Chrome

1. Open your browser and tap Alt+F.
2. Click Settings.
3. Scroll down and select Show advanced settings.
4. Click Reset settings.
5. Click the Reset button.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open your browser.
2. Tap Alt+H.
3. Click Troubleshooting information and click Refresh Firefox.
4. Click the Refresh Firefox button once again.

Remove the Trojan infection

1. Open the Windows Explorer.
2. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%.
3. Find the kirmada folder and remove it.
4. Copy and paste %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data in the address bar.
5. Delete the kirmada folder.