Lovesearchweb.com Removal Guide

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The name used by the website Lovesearchweb.com does not tell anything about its reliability. Although it has such a romantic name and looks like a completely legitimate search provider, we have to say that its appearance is lying. In reality, this search tool is a browser hijacker and using it is a very bad idea because the modified search results it displays might redirect users to corrupted pages. It is only one of several reasons why it is necessary to remove this dubious search provider from web browsers. If you do not do anything, it will stay set as your homepage on all browsers, which means that it will be loaded for you every time you open your browser. Needless to say, your good old homepage will be removed from browsers the second the Lovesearchweb.com browser hijacker enters your computer. You could set a preferred page once again only if you undo the changes applied to your web browsers, i.e. remove an undesirable URL set by a browser hijacker. Do not worry that you do not even know where to start its removal because the last paragraph of this article will tell you more about the removal of the undesirable search tool.

Although Lovesearchweb.com does look like a trustworthy search tool, it can change browsers’ settings without permission, which is definitely not a feature of a reputable search engine. It is not the only drawback it has, of course. Apart from changing users’ all browsers settings, it might also provide users with the sponsored links, research carried out by specialists at 411-spyware.com has shown. These sponsored search results might be dangerous in a sense that they can open corrupted pages with malicious software if users click on them. Of course, users click on those ads accidentally because they have no idea that they are shown to them – they take the form of ordinary search results. Even experienced users find it a challenge to say which of the search results they see are trustworthy and which are not. Therefore, according to experienced security specialists, the easiest way to avoid them is the full removal of the ELEX browser hijacker Lovesearchweb.com. It will no longer perform other undesirable activities if you remove it too.

Researchers cannot consider Lovesearchweb.com a fully reliable also search tool because it gathers information about users. There is nothing wrong about collecting non-personally identifiable information, and a bunch of search tools do that to improve and personalize the service; however, you could not find a truly legitimate program gathering personal details like name, surname, address, etc. automatically. Therefore, we do not think that Lovesearchweb.com should be called reputable either. In fact, problems do not arise just because an undesirable search tool records information about users. Instead, online privacy issues usually arise when the gathered information is disclosed to third parties, e.g. advertisers or third-party partners.

We will talk about the removal of this ELEX browser hijacker in detail in the last paragraph of this report, but before we do that, we should talk about its distribution – this knowledge will make it easier for you to protect your browsers from unauthorized changes browser hijackers make after illegally slithering onto computers. Undoubtedly, one of the distribution methods used the most frequently is called bundling. Browser hijackers are spread via malicious software bundles so that they could easily enter computers unnoticed. In most cases, they do not travel alone. Users click on Download buttons located on P2P pages expecting to get a single application from the web; however, they usually get several of them, among which a browser hijacker is. For starters, stop downloading software from dubious third-party websites, especially those containing a ton of freeware to protect your PC from harm. Then, install a legitimate security tool – you must update it periodically and keep it enabled.

Since many users find the removal of ELEX hijackers quite a challenging task, we want to help you to remove Lovesearchweb.com from browsers. In return, we want to get a promise from you that you will get rid of it in the near future. Instructions placed below this article are for those users who decide to erase it in a manual way. If you are going to use an automatic malware remover to remove this browser hijacker, you do not need them. In this case, you just need to perform a full system scan with a legitimate scanner once.

Remove Lovesearchweb.com

Internet Explorer

  1. Open the Registry Editor (launch Run (Win+R), enter regedit, and click OK).
  2. Open this registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
  3. Find the Start Page Value there, right-click on this Value, and select Modify from the drop-down menu.
  4. Clear the Value data and enter the URL you prefer.
  5. Click OK.

Google Chrome

  1. Open the Windows Explorer (Win+E).
  2. Type C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default in the bar at the top to open this directory.
  3. Locate and delete three files: Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data.
  4. Empty the Recycle bin.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Launch the Windows Explorer.
  2. Open C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{Unique Mozilla user’s ID}.
  3. Find the prefs.js file and open it with Notepad.
  4. Search for a string user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://Lovesearchweb.com"); and remove it.
  5. Save the changes.
Download Remover for Lovesearchweb.com *
*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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