Isearchnow.com Removal Guide

Perhaps it does not take too much to understand that Isearchnow.com is a browser hijacker. Of course, at first glance, the domain may look like a decent search engine, but you should know better than that. A browser hijacker is a program that is designed to make a financial profit for its developers, disregarding your well-being. If you want to avoid potential computer security issues, you will see to it that you remove Isearchnow.com from your system at once. Luckily, it is not complicated to terminate a browser hijacker, so you can easily do it on your own if you follow the instructions below.

We always mention this and perhaps it is not enough to repeat it just once: Users tend to install browser hijackers themselves. You will now say that you would never add something to your browser that could be dangerous, but you might not be aware of the fact. Browser hijackers often look like regular search engines, and they tend to come bundled with freeware applications, looking like their additional features. So even if you do not mean it, you may install Isearchnow.com on your computer together with some application you have recently downloaded from a file-sharing website.

According to our research team, this browser hijacker usually gets distributed via such freeware pages as filewon.com, filewin.com, malavida.es, descargar.es, and many more. The point is that you should be able to avoid such intruders if you were more careful when you download freeware applications. Please take your time to read the steps in the installation wizard; the wizard often informs users about the additional apps that will be added to your PC. And if users go through the installation automatically, they are bound to end up with a few programs or features they neither need nor want.

Of course, a browser hijacker is not an extremely malicious or dangerous threat. It is more of a nuisance that modifies your browser’s settings for its own gains. Upon the installation, you will see that your default homepage was changed, and this modification affects Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. The program does not seem to work on the Edge browser yet.

When Isearchnow.com enters your system, it tries to collect information on your web browsing via tracking cookies. This browser hijacker is bound to display modified search links, most of which would be full of commercial content. That content would be modified based on the browsing history that the program has collected. So, as a result, some of the commercial links on the results list would be related to your likes and preferences. Consequently, you might feel more inclined to click those links, and this is exactly what the browser hijacker wants of you.

It needs your clicks because Isearchnow.com generates a financial profit via the pay-per-click system. This is the most commonly employed method if we take a look at how browser hijackers work. Technically, it should not cause any trouble, but sometimes the content it promotes might be corrupted because the hijacker has no say in what kind of links get embedded in the search results. Therefore, to protect yourself from various security risks, you should remove Isearchnow.com right now.

How to Remove Isearchnow.com

Internet Explorer

1. Press Win+R and type regedit. Click OK.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
3. On the right side, right-click the Start Page value.
4. Select Modify and change your homepage address.
5. Click OK and exit Registry Editor.

Firefox

1. Press Win+R and type %AppData%. Click OK.
2. Go to Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[User ID].
3. Open the prefs.js file with Notepad.
4. Delete this string: user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://Isearchnow.com");
5. Save changes and close the file.

Chrome

1. Press Win+R and type %LocalAppData%. Click OK.
2. Navigate to Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.
3. Delete the Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files.