2014-01-05

Get rid of Quick-Seeker.com Thoroughly: Manual Removal Method

My browser is hijacked by Quick-Seeker.com. Every time I open the browser, it pops up on my screen. Could you please help to remove it? Yes, the step-by-step guides in this post can help you safely and quickly remove Quick-Seeker.com. 

Information of Quick-Seeker.com 


Quick-Seeker.com is categorized as a browser hijacker since it always redirects computer users to http://www.quick-seeker.com/. This browser hijacker is usually bundled with the freeware that you download from the Internet. It will install on your computer without showing you an obvious notice to ask for your permission. And with a quick click, you are agree to install it. After it takes effect to disturb your online activities, then you find you are in trouble.



Once infected, your browser setting will be changed by Quick-Seeker.com. Your default homepage and search engine will be changed and it will redirect you to http://www.quick-seeker.com/ when you open your browser without your permission. This browser hijacker can attach on browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other frequency-used browsers.


If you use Quick-Seeker.com to do online searching, your search terms and personal information will be collected and sent to the cyber criminals. Thus your sensitive information will be under high risk of being stolen. In order to have a good online activities environment and protect your personal information, you should remove it in time.

Step-by-step guides to uninstall Quick-Seeker.com manually

Manual removal can be your choice to make your computer safe. Before performing the process, we suggest you back up Windows registry at first for unpredictable damages or further usage.

1: Stop Quick-Seeker.com running processes in Windows Task Manager first.

( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)


2: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.




3: Go to the Registry Editor and remove all Quick-Seeker.com registry entries listed here:

(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to search)


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\uninstall\Quick-Seeker.com\[random].
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Disallow Run\Quick-Seeker.com \[random].

4: All Quick-Seeker.com associated files listed below need to be removed:

%userprofile%appdata%Temp%\Quick-Seeker.com\bin\[random].exe
%userprofile%appdata%Roaming%\Quick-Seeker.com\bin \[random].dll

5: Clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

Step-by-step guides to uninstall Quick-Seeker.com automatically with SpyHunter

However, manual removal is troublesome and complex, you may even make things worse if you are a computer tyro. SpyHunter can solve this problem for you. Please see the its installation instruction below, learn to use it. It won't be difficult.

1: Download SpyHunter by pressing the following button.




2; Click Save and then Run to install it into your computer.




3;Now, a window of SpyHunter can be seen, you can start a quick or full scan of your computer by clicking Start New Scan. Finally, click Remove to delete all threats. 




Video tutorials for your reference



Attention Again: As we mentioned before, the manual tutorial can be very complicated since names of files or programs brought by Quick-Seeker.com are difficult to be identified. So you are suggested to uninstall it with SpyHunter which can delete it automatically. Double click the icon below, then you can download SpyHunter.


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